Another year begins

I began mowing my plots the beginning of last week on Tuesday, May 2, 2011. After three days of mowing the entire area with the walk-mower, I began mowing individual plots on Thursday morning. I am currently mowing the lowest plots at 0.107. A bit of a warm spell bit us over the last few days. This warm weather had a pretty bad effect on the SR 1020 plots. Surprisingly, the main plots that were affected were those mowed at 0.156 and 0.125 moreso than those mowed at the lowest mowing height. I still have lots of trouble with the far east side of the green drying out a lot. This morning I went ahead and handwatered the plots that looked to have had some injury from the heat. Prior to mowing this morning, those areas were evident with the lack of dew production in those areas compared to healthier looking areas. Cooler weather and some thunderstorms are supposed to be coming in this evening. I am hoping this will help the plots recover so I can get baseline data on my research plots in the coming weeks.