A little off color

For the past couple of weeks we have been out spraying for Kikuyu grass throughout the course. Kikuyu is a warm season grass that actually does pretty well in our cooler climate on the Monterey peninsula but in our case we treat it as a weed. Since Kikuyu is a warm season grass it starts to shut down its growth patterns as the soil temperatures start to drop in the winter. This makes for an excellent time to spray herbicides to knock it back as the plant will translocate the herbicide down to its roots as it tries to store it's energy in the root system for the next growing season. Below is a picture of some Kikuyu that was sprayed last week along the lake bank in front of #10 green. For the most part the tees and fairways are pretty free of Kikuyu so we've put a little more effort this year into eradicating it from our rough.



In this picture you also see that the lakes are still a little on the low side. Hopefully we get a good rain soon to help fill both lakes up!

- Posted by Austin Daniells, Golf Course Superintendent