Our Aerification Process

We finished up our Spring greens aerification yesterday.  Some people are interested in the process we used, so here are the steps we took to aerify the greens.

The first step is to topdress the greens heavily

This is what the greens look like before aerification

After they are sanded, we aerify the greens

We have Turf Pride boxes that attach to the aerifier.  These drag boxes drag the plugs off of the green and also drag sand into the holes.  The boxes dragging the plugs off save us a ton of labor.  Before getting these drags we had to manually push the plugs off.

Once the plugs are off to the side, they are shoveled into utility vehicles.

You can see how many plugs come out of the green on every pass.  This makes for a couple of long days shoveling plugs.

Once the greens are aerified we blow the remaining sand into the holes.

If the sand is still wet, we have to use our pull behind Buffalo Blower to work the wet sand around on the greens to get the holes filled.

This is our finished product.