Spring temperatures bring more spring melting. The snow we accumulated in February is quickly disappearing. We have started clearing the snow from the greens we cleared ice off of in January. We will pull the tarps off of them in the warm temperatures and evaluate the quality of the turf as they start to come out of dormancy. Ideally, the turf under the tarps will have suffered little to no damage from the ice or the removal techniques. More likely, the turf under the tarps will exhibit damage and in some cases, could be lost all together. The Poa annua greens that we were concerned about in January could have been damaged by ice cover before we cleared the ice at all. Poa annua is so sensitive to ice cover and most long-term solutions include the re-grassing of Poa annua greens to bentgrass. We will evaluate the results of the ice removal techniques we experimented with and a report on those result will follow in one of our subsequent blog posts.
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