While walking down the center of a fairway at an exclusive country club in your
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While walking down the center of a fairway at an exclusive country club in your locale, a golfer approaches you and says: "I wish my lawn at home looked as nice as this turf." Assuming the golfer's lawn was typical of that found in your community, how would you characterize the difference in the nature and intensity of cultural operations (e.g., mowing, fertilization, irrigation, cultivation, etc.) between maintaining a residential lawn (of Kentucky bluegrass, common bermudagrass, or St. Augustinegrass) and a golf course fairway (of creeping bentgrass or hybrid bermudagrass)? In your answer, be sure to include in these characterizations the visual and functional quality criteria.
Explanation / Answer
For maintaining soil stabilization of a residential lawn it requires less intensity of cultural operations like mowing and little or no fertilization or irrigation.
Nature of residential lawn : The turfs are made for decorative purpose and utilitarian purposes while the golf- course fairway turfs provide for spectator sports.
Kentucky bluegrass: It is also known as Poa pratensis a common meadow grass.September is the prime time for fertilization of bluegrass.
Bermuda grass: is the warm season grass.Irrigation is the most important way to maintain moisture in this grass.
Thatch accumulation does not occurs if it is properly fertilized and mowed.Fertilization should be done monthly.
St.Augustin grass: It is also known as Charlesto grass or carpet grass.It grows at coastal areas.It requires more water.For this grass irrigation and fertilization should not ne done high as it becomes thatched.
It grows in Florida mainly.
Creeping grass: It grows in Western Europe.It is a cool season grass.Extreme low mowing will convert it to bluegrass.It requires little fertilization for mineral soils.It doesn't requires special irrigation.
Hybrid bermuda grass: Very fine in texture.It needs frequent fertilization and over seeding management techniques.It requires accurate irrigation.
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