Turf School Day Sixteen and Seventeen

Day 16:
Yesterday morning we woke up to a winter wonderland. It had just started to snow, so when we got to class our teacher was a little late. Something to do with people from New Jersey not being able to drive in the snow....
Well our first class on irrigation. We talked about setting up a system and how back in the day the systems ran down the middle of the fairway and were set up to use quick couplers to irrigate at night. We talked about the problems with converting there old systems to new systems without replacing the whole system. It was kind of pointless because none of us work at courses that are that old.
We then flew through two insect lectures so we could get out before the nor-easter got into town. We talked about billbugs and annual bluegrass weevils. We discussed their destruction tactics and how we as managers of turf can control them and prevent their destruction.

Day 17:
Class was cancelled today. I did a little bit of homework and shoveled some snow with the owner of the house.

We got about 8-10 inches of snow from the storm.