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Hey Kathleen, sorry for the super late reply. Recently regained access to my YT account. While both are great cultural practices, nothing will ever compare to a good hollow tine aeration performed on any grass type. Think of verticutting as a light rain for 2 hours compared to a 3 day slow soaker.
Verticutting uses tines or vertical blades to remove thatch and slice through stolons and rhizomes found in Bermuda and Zoysia grass. Depending on the depth of the verticutter it can be quite aggressive and cause minimal damage to the turf and should be performed during the active growing season for a speedy recovery.
Punching holes causing very little damage to the turf, you most likely have been on a course after we punched holes and never knew, pulling plugs out of a green is the most noticeable, that's called hollow tine aeration, everything is called tines not rotary blades, there's is different types of verticutting tines, some cause far more damage, also verticutting doesn't go deep, it's only removing thatch because thatch is what holds the water, most greens in America are 90 to 95% sand the rest peat. We often do deep tine aeration with solid tines that go 10 to 12 inches deep, this guy should do a video on that, deeming on the size of the tine you will never know we did anything to the greens because we often leaves those holes open that heal rapidly. We also use something called a hydro jet system, it punches holes with compressed water, 8 inches deep
What a waste of money, when do you ever get that much rain in a few minutes and that just means you'll wash away 1/5 of your soil nutrients faster if your fertilizing in the sprinkler system, cots will go up and what's the real benefit?
Kevin Queen Verticuting is to prevent thatch and root binding in Bermuda and zoysia type grasses. This just demonstrates the water penetration on a given week by artificial irrigation and depth of soil saturation. It is actually beneficial because you can use less water as more of it is getting down into the root/soil layer
Don't know how I got here but one- Love the music, and two- pretty sure %25 is huge when it comes to watching grass grow. I mean how do you improve growing grass? oh wait, thank verticutting , now I know the difference.thank you scott Dillon.
With out narration ,explaining any thing your videos are lame . In this video the same sequence is being looped. Whyvis the grass labled when the parts are not important . I don'tget it
Scott Dillon yes it seem like your videos are geared towards people that are already familiar with the subject. Its al new to me but i did like your video on gagueing the reel blades to the , the cutter bar?
Bob Brawley a 25% improvement is massive if you take into account a whole football pitch. That's 25% better water drainage, therefore less chance of disease. 25% less fertiliser loss as well as allowing airflow into the ground and more room for grass roots to grow deep and dense. If The sample size was larger you would get a much better result.
