{"id":548,"date":"2023-05-05T18:43:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T18:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westhillsfredericton.ca\/golf\/?p=548"},"modified":"2023-06-06T12:01:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T15:01:44","slug":"may-5th-update-and-opening-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westhillsfredericton.ca\/golf\/blog\/2023\/05\/05\/may-5th-update-and-opening-date\/","title":{"rendered":"May 5th Update and Opening date"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Hello Folks,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just a quick update to talk a bit about the opening and whats going on around the course.\u00a0Despite the cold and wet weather of the past week we continue to move forward with repairing the greens from the winter damage.\u00a0Shout out to my staff to have worked hard in rather uncomfortable weather over the last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Monday of this week we took the germination tarps off the greens and I was pleasantly surprised to see that our mid-April seeding had germinated.\u00a0In anticipation of the poor weather forecasted for Wednesday\/Thursday, we put the tarps back on for Tuesday night but not before mowing the healthy parts of the greens.\u00a0One of the big concerns with seeding this early in the year is loss of seed to freezing.\u00a0Fortunately, the tarps prolong the warmth of the day and shelter the seedings from the frost.\u00a0 This morning, we pulled the tarps off again to mow, fertilize and water the greens.\u00a0It looks like Mother nature is going to help us out next week with some high teen and low twenties temps and some greatly needed sunshine.\u00a0Its probably going to be too hot this weekend (hard to believe I’m saying that) to keep the tarps on, with that amount of fertilizer and and water we could cook the seedlings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n