Dryject

During the summer months when the plant is under its highest stress point, certain cultivation practices are vital in order to withstand summer decline.   Typically courses in our area core aerify the greens once in the spring and fall and needle tine greens a few times during the summer to re-oxygenate the soil.  Unfortunately when you core aerify there is a disruption to the putting surface for several weeks, due to the large amount of topdressing sand and unhealed aerification holes.  While needle tining does re-oxygenate the soil there is no new soil being added into the profile, which can help in firming the playing surface, creating drainage channels, and help reduce organic matter build up.  So that is where the process known as DryJect comes into play.  The DryJect process uses pressurized water to create a channel into the soil profile and fills that channel with new sand, leaving minimal surface disruption and an overall firmer playing surface. A few weeks ago we completed this process on our greens and approaches knowing that it would improve the overall health of the playing surfaces going into the stresses of summer. 

As you can see the DryJect process is not as disruptive as core aerification. 

 

 This a short video of how the DryJect process works