Soil Sampling

A standard procedure on all golf courses should be the bi-annual sampling of soil areas. By taking a basic soil probe, the soil content is extracted from the ground and placed into a ziploc bag to be sent to the testing department. It is important to extract the soil in random and distant areas from each soil probe. It is also important to remove the grass plant and thatch area from the sample. In this particular soil sample, we were testing for base cations, Ph levels, and available nutrition on our driving range tee. The entire process only takes an hour or two, and gives very valuable information on the needs of the grass plant. It can be a bit costly, but is very well worth it if it can be afforded.