You are actually great at breaking down the costs of everything and the actual maintenance requirements to maintain a green , plus your t-shirt selection is on point lol. Great video Jason!
Have a 60x30 foot green and the maintenance hasn’t been too crazy. Have gotten away with backlapping the mower once a month. Besides that a yearly oil change and cleaning the carburetor myself. My main expense is liquid fertilizer, sand, and gas. Spend probably $200 a year.
Hey Jason! Love the videos. I just finished watching your whole playlist about your green install. Anyway I could get a list of what fertilizer you use? I’m doing bentgrass as well.
Would depend on your soil test results first. I've used a combination/rotation of Armada and Eagle and Azoxy (armada is group 3 and 11 and the other two combined are group 3 and 11) for fungicides. Using T-nex for plant growth regulator at just over an eighth of an ounce every 200-250 growing degree days. And then a 12-0-0 liquid micronutrient product and soluable AMS and Urea. If needed, 5 pounds of a 10-10-10 every so often. And water. Gotta be watering well.
Hi Jason, thank you for your content. How do you manage that the Bentgrass didn‘t „creep“ into your Existing normal Lawn around the putting Green, so that It does Not damage it because of the stolones and sponginess. Thank you
I don't because it was already there and kind of just accepting my fate there. Depending on your main grass type, tenacity, triclopyr, fusilade (not for KBG), quinclorac, and a few others will damage it and if used over multiple applications will keep it under control to some degree.
I currently have perennial rye where my putting green is being planned out, once leveled a bit with sand because right now the lowest I’m able to go is just under half inch. I’m wondering if I’m able to just overseed with bent grass later in the fall once I can mow lower.
You could overseed now. Bent is a little more heat tolerant than the other cool season grasses. Would recommend still chewing the surface up a little bit to provide a good seed bed.
Combo of sprinklers? Any rotor or rotator or honestly any sprinkler will do. I've seen and tried the flat piece of iron with a hole, bolt, and wingnut approach as a diy height of cut gauge. But I would recommend spending the money when cutting at greens height.
Sure could. Site prep is going to be very important to make sure it's smooth, stable, etc. But I know very little about outdoor artificial turf greens.
I will, on occasion, get a few weeds in the green. You can use any herbicide safe for your grass type just like in a normal lawn or simply pull the few that survive. I use Spectracides concentrate weed killer that has the yellow cap. It is safe for bentgrass, but confirm that with the label in case they change their packaging some day.
Bermuda will be perfect for it. Common varieties may struggle at greens height, but anything that can't hang around will just die and you'll be left with what will live.
