Thursday, May 15, 2014

Extreme heat

So far this week we have had temperatures in the triple digits everyday as well as high winds. With this it has been necessary to irrigate more than just once during the day. Why we are doing this is to "COOL" the plant. No warm season grasses have been affected by this weather, in fact this is there optimum range of temperature to grow to there most potential. Are cool season grasses however tend to struggle in this heat. Not only syringing but frequent amounts of water when necessary to achieve a steady canopy temperature to reduce wilting. You only get one chance to keep cool season grasses alive. This is because they are a bunch type with no stolons or rhizomes like warm season grasses. It looks like we will get a steady break in the heat starting this weekend. Lastly are greens were stimped at 10.1 this morning.