On 9 June, Jose Ramirez, our awesome gardener, brought his hollow tining machine and tined the green. The machine put thousands of small holes in the green about an inch deep. During the summer the green gets drier and drier. As we bowl and walk on the green, it compacts the soil making it difficult for water, oxygen and nutrients to reach the roots of the grass. The tining allows for better penetration of the soil. Tining also removes some of the soil from the green to help level it. Jose made several passes with the tining machine over higher areas of the green.
All hands on deck.
After the tining was done, the green was cleaned by shoveling up the dirt/grass plugs removed by the tining machine and then lightly sweeping and blowing the green clear the debris.
Thanks to a small group of volunteers this cleaning was finished in a focused 2 hour work session. Thank you Janie and Judy Hillyer, Patricia Erwin, Cathy Dinnean, Janine and Phillip Andrews, Steve Harris, and Claudia Benton.
From the upper left clockwise: Steve Harris, Jose Ramirez, Janine and Philip Andrews, and Patricia Erwin with Janie Hillier.
The next morning our fabulous greenskeepers Janie, Judy Hillyer and Sarah Allday worked on rolling and blowing the green again to get it ready for bowling, while Claudia and Rolly Coe cleaned the ditch which was thick with debris.
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