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Tracking the bentgrass spread or lack thereof

A mixed stand. It's hard to tell which way the population is shifting, if at all. I want to know if the bentgrass on my greens was in fact spreading or just there from the seed and on a gradual decline. I looked into tracking turfgrass cover and all the methods involved a lot of time and effort. What I came up with was to simply cut cups in poa one day and in bentgrass the other day. That way I would be placing poa plugs in bentgrass and bentgrass plugs in poa. This would allow me to see if there was in fact a population shift on my putting greens. This looks weird as there are now a bunch of perfect circle patches on my greens but over time they should blend out and be less noticeable. Poa Plugs in Bentgrass Bentgrass Plug in Poa Poa plug in Poa/bent Poa in Bentgrass You will notice that the bentgrass is quite "grainy." I am intentionally not fighting the grain as I feel that the longer leaf blade of the bentgrass might give it a competitive edge. The grass blades physic...