Ahhh. Water. It’s earth’s most abundant compound. It can be easily found naturally in all three of its states. It’s weird and defies logic. It’s the universal solvent. It expands when it freezes. When you really think about water, it’s pretty amazing. We have experienced mass amounts of water. We have experienced lack of water. […]
The Only Way to Seed
First of all. I need to apologize about this post on two levels. 1) It’s really late. I forgot I had these pictures on my camera. 2) I wasn’t the one who took these pictures. I forgot to tell my staff member to change the white balance, so these pictures are a little weird. As […]
Something Old. Something New. Something Borrowed. Something Orange?
One of the hardest things about running a business is trying to figure out when you’re supposed to make capital improvements, when you’re supposed to buy new/used equipment and when you’re supposed to pinch your pennies and just make do with what you have. As a general rule, we always pinch our pennies. Our family […]
Jake the Butcher
The spring is probably the most hectic time around the golf course. There are so many projects that need to happen to clean up from the winter and prepare for the summer. There are perennials to transplant, native grasses that need trimmed back from last year’s growth. Roses need to be pruned. New mulch needs […]
Grass Seed is King this Spring
We have been seeding this spring. My husband, Kelly, always likes to comfort me by telling me that the seed only costs about $1 per pound. The trouble with that? We order about 5,000 pounds of seed. We use a rye/bluegrass mix. The rye grass germinates quickly, while the bluegrass is a more hardy grass.The […]