Experienced Superintendent Wallace Chavis Wrote Off “Chemical Aeration” Until He Got Word Agriox Was Working At Other Wilmington Golf Courses
June 6th, 2008
The first few times the Geoponics Consultant came by the course I ran him off because we get so many snake oil salesmen coming around. When somebody tells you they can put oxygen in your soil without aerating there’s no point in listening because everybody knows you can’t do that. If you could, then there would be another product like it, which there isn’t. But then I started talking to some other superintendents that were using Agriox and they told me they were seeing real benefits. Well, we can’t go off what we think, we have to go off what we know, so I tried it. After three applications I know for myself that it works because I’ve seen it intensify the effects of the other things we do.
It just makes sense that if your soil is healthy, then generally your grass will be too. Now when the bosses ask what’s wrong with the greens, which they all do, I just tell them “Nothing.” They like that answer. I’m very happy with the Penterra as well as the Agriox, and when people ask me what I’m doing to get them looking so good and playing so consistent, I recommend both products.
Wallace Chavis, Superintendent
Beau Rivage Golf Resort
Wilmington, NC
Entry Filed under: Stabilized Chemical Aeration,Turfgrass Care & Maintenance
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