Fall Capital Projects Moving Forward

Grass court fencing, berm regrade on clay court #8 and lights installation on three clay courts.

Biscuit Addendum

Funny, we have been discussing biscuits (see earlier blog entry) and in the mail today was a package for Steve. Tea and biscuits from Neil S. in England!

Biscuits

At lunch on the last several Thursdays, Steve has been bringing in a different English biscuit (in America known as cookies) for the grounds crew to rate. We have tasted and rated Hob Nobs, Wagon Wheels, Digestives and Jaffa Cakes. Click on the ratings sheet below and you can see the different categories in which they were rated. Yesterday was extremely controversial as the Jaffa Cakes were rated really high by half the crew and the other half hated them. The "squidgy orange bit" bothered some of the biscuit tasters.

More on Verti Drain

Comments on our aeration.
The severe summer has left us with very short grass roots. They are currently growing and healthy, but not as extensive as they normally are at this time of year. This has affected how we aerate. Using the normal settings on the aerator resulted in huge chunks of the turf being pulled up, so we have had to adjust. We have taken 1/3 of the tines off the machine, operate at a greater speed to spread the holes and we are only going 6 inches deep (last year we went 10 inches deep). Getting the root system back to it's normal size is definitely a challenge this fall, with aeration being one of the key components.

October 26, 2010

A lot going on today.

• Deep tine aeration with the Verti Drain
• Recycling of the old grass court fences
• Post holes for new fences on grass
• Light installation on clay courts

Fall Color 10/25/10

Fencing Begins

Work has begun on the fall fencing installations. New fences are going in for grass courts 1-12 and between the terrace and driveway. Clearing, layout and some post hole digging for today. The LCC crew hand dug all the post holes that were in the area of irrigation lines - we made it through the day without one broken pipe!