Pictures from an athletic field contractor

[EddieWalker]

I forgot about them dragging the infield. I haven't been to a baseball game in decades and didn't think about that. It seems like they are creating job security for you in how they maintain their fields!!!

 

[Complete Turf Care]

A little infield maintenance today.

 

[Complete Turf Care]

View of the field we planted on May 23rd. It's about 80-90% grown in. It usually takes about 90 days to grow in to 100% coverage. We may be slightly ahead of schedule.

 

[EddieWalker]

Is there a point where it's too hot for the seed to grow?

 

[Complete Turf Care]

Is there a point where it's too hot for the seed to grow?

Not really. Hotter is better for Bermuda grass. And remember this grass is a hybrid, so it can not be propagated by seed. It has to be sod or sprigs. We did sprigs on this field.

 

[EddieWalker]

I was just looking at the temps for the next couple of days and it looks like it's going to be brutal.

 

[WinterDeere]

Is there a point where it's too hot for the seed to grow?

More an issue up here, than in Texas or Louisiana, surprisingly enough. We generally have to stick to cool season turf grasses, to survive our several straight months of sub-freezing temperatures through winter, and keep growing a reasonable April - October season. Species like Tall Fescue really start stressing around 85°F, and all-out stop growing and turn crunchy brown in the low 90°F's, even with our typical 1 inch/week rainfall. I've seen guys completely kill a lawn by mowing too-tall grass down to height in the middle of weeks having high temps in the mid-90's.

The warm season turf grasses favored down south don't suffer these problems, at least to the same degree.

Go over to the lawnsite forum, and you'll see lots of advice to never mow your lawn on days peaking above 85F, which is common and good advice for the grasses we grow in PA. Then the guys down south will laugh and say that if that were good advice, they'd not be able to mow from May thru September! The type of grass is the key difference.

 

[Duds13]

My lawn is completely fried. I can't remember the last steady rainfall we had. I think it's been at least a month. I mow high too because I know the mid-summer draught always happens but that only helped for so long. Kills me since I like a well kept lawn but there's nothing I can do about it so no reason to stress. Gives me time to split more firewood.

 

[Complete Turf Care]

@WinterDeere is correct. Cool season (northern) and warm season (southern) grasses are very different. Growing and maintaining them are very different. I really wouldn't know how to deal with cool season grasses.

It can really be a problem in the transition area between the north and south. States like Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky and all the 'middle' states. Companies are trying to develop bermuda grass varieties that will tolerate colder weather in these states, with limited success.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

View of the field we planted on May 23rd. It's about 80-90% grown in. It usually takes about 90 days to grow in to 100% coverage. We may be slightly ahead of schedule.

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Looking good.