Frost - May 23

The strange spring weather continues for us and for everybody across the U.S.  As we are very busy this week prepping for one of our largest tournaments of the summer, The Land Title, we had frost on Thursday May 23.  The latest date we have ever had frost since I have been here in Lewiston, ID.  Parts of the country have seen snow storms this May, flooding in the Midwest, devastating tornadoes in the south, and flood stage rains in the East.  If you remember back to a previous post of mine, Hot / Dry Spring, we had a stretch of of summer like heat that had us scrambling early on the golf course, and now we have lows in the 30's and high's in the 50's.  The frost did not hurt anything on the golf course or impede our progress to prepare for the tourney, other than a few new flowers that did get nipped at the leaf tip around the clubhouse.  This type of event is the thing that keeps us golf course superintendents always on our toes.  Everyday there is something new that effects our plan or management of the turfgrass and playability on our golf courses.