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🪱Worm Casts On The Golf Course 🪱

🎥 Course Manager Aaron Small, Update ❗️Worm casts on the course❗️ 🪱Earthworms are unsung heroes, helping keep the grass beneath our feet healthy and in a great condition for golf. Yet they’re often derided for the casts they produce that cake your ball and shoes in mud if you land among them. 🪱 But did you know that only four of the 28 species of worms in the UK produce casts, yet all are an important element of healthy soil ecology? 👍🏻 The positives: The advantages of having healthy worm populations in the soil include: • Improved soil fertility • The breaking down of organic matter to humus • Improved crumb structure and soil stability • Aiding aeration of soil profile • Reducedcompaction • Collection and decomposition of decaying organic matter that would otherwise build up as thatch • Improved surface drainage • Reduced build-up of phytotoxic gases in the soil • Increased activity of soil-borne bacteria 👎🏻 The negatives: Potential issues caused by casting worms include: • Unsightly and numerous casts • Collection on soles of shoes • Uneven playing surfaces and adversely affected ball roll • Build up can in the short term ruin playing surfaces • Casts encourage weed seeds and germination • Casts can be sticky and slimy • Problems with machinery • Damage to bottom blades of mowers • Casts alter the height of cut, due to build-up on mower front rollers • Smearing after mowing • Casts smother finer leafed gras ses