19/8/10

A touch of disease has popped up at Piperdam on the big greens over the last couple of day we have diagnosed it as type 2 fairy ring, its the less destructive type of fairyring.

This type of fairyring is superficial, generally there will be a dark green circle on the outside edge of it, other types of fairyring will either kill the outside ring or have fungi growing in the outside ring. We took no risks anyway and sarel rolled the greens and spot treated the greens affected with a systemic fungicide, we then sprayed the greens with wetting agent to keep the rings hydrated and liquid iron to try and mask the dark green circles.

Other jobs today included cutting greens, tees, approaches and fairways on the wee course. We also cut around tees on the big course and started cutting the rough.