As we enter the last week of October, most of the leaves are starting to change color and beginning to fall off. It seems at Llanerch that the leaves start to fall in large numbers right around Halloween and are almost finished by Thanksgiving. We have been spending most of our time chasing leaves, planting around the new patio and cleaning up around the Clubhouse construction. I am hoping that the patio planting will all but be finished by Thanksgiving.
Starting yesterday, the construction crew began sodding the 18th green complex. They have installed bentgrass for the fairway extensions, low cut bluegrass for the intermediate cut and turf type tall fescue for the rough. They also installed some fine fescue on the bunker edges. We plan to finish sodding by tonight but might need to purchase a small quantity more next week to fix some construction wounds.