Ongoing work.

Sun at last, we should finally see the back of the wet weather.  An attempt this week to get back on track agronomicaly with much needed work on the greens.  

The Abbotts greens were top-dressed with around half a ton of straight sand, followed by solid-tining down to 10 inches.  A wet start to the week meant a delay in beginning the work and even then greens were still to soft but we need to make good use of this early spring warmth.

Solid tining

 Tining after dressing is applied helps push sand down through the profile which will firm up greens.  The Priors is being aerated early next week.  Later in spring the plan will be a mini hollow-tine or maybe even solid-tine with a very heavy dressing followed through the summer with light dusting to help smooth out the surface.