Awesome Weather Continues

Wow I can't believe it is already close to the end of October.  The leaves are starting to turn and fall and postseason baseball is in full effect.  Our Kansas City Royals have been putting on quite a show this postseason.  As I am writing this post they are currently playing game four in Toronto and are up 5-2 with a 2-1 lead in the series, so I am keeping my fingers crossed that they can pull it out and take a commanding advantage in the ALCS and make it back to the World Series (Update the Royals did win game 4 and are now up 3-1 in the series).  Like I titled this post the incredibly great weather has continued here in the Kansas City over the past few weeks giving us great grass growing weather.  Course conditions have been great as the golf course is playing very firm and fast.  Finally this week we were able to level out the area right of #5 and #6 where we put all the extra dirt from the creek project this past winter on #5.  It turned out  great thanks to Jack Stockdale and his crew and we will be seeding this area very soon as we are waiting on some rain chances to move into the forecast to make things a little softer and give us better seeding conditions which looks like we are going to get on Friday. This area will hopefully establish itself as a low maintenance native area that we will work diligently to try and keep the weed population down as much as possible.  However this first year after establishment we will have a battle on our hands as the soil is full of weed seeds after the weed germination that we had in 2015.  Anytime you turn soil over you get a lot of weed pressure the following year. Currently we are participating in some trials of a chemical program with a chemical manufacturer that we are looking to use in these high profile areas that has been successful in limiting the weed population.  So hopefully we will get some great results and have a great plan of attack to try and help control the weeds in these areas.  I have attached a photo below showing the area on #5 as we get ready to seed it hopefully on Wednesday or Thursday prior to the rain.  Also I took a great shot of the beautiful sunrise this morning!  This is one of the great joys in being a golf course superintendent you get to see some awesome beauty from "Mother Nature" on a regular basis.

#5 Native area prepping for seed

Incredible Sunrise!!!