Verticut Approaches This Week

This week we tried to take advantage of the cooler temperatures to do some verticutting.  We preferred to accomplish this during the cooler temperatures because to the level of aggressiveness we wanted to take with the practice.  We used a new piece of equipment that will remove more material from the turf surface.  Our goals for the approaches was to stand up some of the grass that has been laid over from mowing the same stripe continuously in an effort to achieve the look we want.  This verticutting will be a usual practice with this mowing pattern.  Due to the level of aggressiveness we took, the approaches may look a little yellow or brown for a week to two weeks while the turf begins to fill in some of the areas where leaves were removed.  Even though the short-term results in some off color turf, the long-term benefits are well worth the effort.