Woodside Turf

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Wildlife presentation

This really is the perfect time of year to venture over to a local school and do a wildlife presentation for two grade 4 classes. Winter weather is still hanging around, preventing us from doing anything on the golf course at this point. One class is treated to a 30 minute power point presentation that is both informative, funny and very interactive. The other class is building their own nest boxes and after they are done, we switch classrooms and do it all again. It really is a fun morning and a lot of work is done building and then disassembling the nest boxes. Thanks to Brent Lees and John MacKeeman for their work, it certainly is a lot of cutting, sanding, drilling and assembling when we are making over 50 boxes. Some nest boxes will be for sale in the office for $10 so we can recoup some of our costs. Thanks to Mike Fulton at Airdrie Home Building Center for his donation of some cedar lumber for the project.

Friday, November 9, 2012

New trees

On Tuesday morning Eagle Creek Tree Farm and Vollmin Tree Movers showed up in the parking lot with a truck full of new trees for the course. Here are a few pictures from the day. A huge thanks to Cliff and Dale for the exceptional service, the trees look great.

#15 first holes being dug

20 new trees to the left side of #15

A look back at the new tee on #6

Monday, October 15, 2012

Greens Aeration

Here are a few pictures from our greens aeration.

John aerating 17 green

After the holes are punched we double cut the green to smooth the putting surface as well as remove any tufts of turf above the aeration holes to allow the holes to be filled with sand during topdressing.

10th green after aeration

Aeration opens up the putting surface enabling more efficient air and water movement throughout the rootzone. This reduces the chance in the winter months of standing water developing on the putting surface which could potentially lead to turf loss.

Bruce topdressing 16 green

After topdressing, we then dragmat the green to move the sand into the aertaion holes. To finish off the process the greens are mowed once more to smooth the putting surface and any aeration holes disturbed by the dragmat.