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The Villages is known as a golf mecca for retirees but it\u2019s also home to schools and sports fields. Josh Carter leads a team to care for those and he relies on Redox and Aquatrols to meet expectations.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone knows about The Villages, the famed Florida\ncommunity that\u2019s home to thousands of retirees. But, you may not know that\nthere are actually plenty of kids there too and they need places to play. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Josh Carter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Enter Josh Carter, a turf head who grew up working on the family farm and nurseries around the Jacksonville area. An ag teacher in high school encouraged him to consider turf so he got a golf course job in 1998 when he was just a junior in high school. He ended up completing a degree at Lake City Community College during the heyday of the program. He progressed in the industry and even spent seven years working with our friend Andy Jorgensen at Top of the World Communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During school, he\u2019d worked at the Naval Station Golf Course\nbut also worked afternoons with Mark Clay, the field manager for the\nJacksonville Jaguars. \u201cI\u2019d always been fascinated with the sports turf business\nand I learned a ton from Mark.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019 he started with ASG, a single-owner contractor that works exclusively in The Villages. He and his crew of 13 oversaw the charter school property for the community\u2019s young people. But it\u2019s no ordinary school with a couple of ballfields. Carter maintains 16 acres of bermudagrass fields managed by three sports turf pros. \u201cWe have a game field, a practice field, two softball fields, one baseball, and two soccer\/football practice fields.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also has a landscape crew that works around the school\u2019s\nseven buildings, including 12 acres of St. Augustine and 5 acres of Zoysia. Oh,\nthere\u2019s also a 4-field softball complex for residents that hosts as many as 120\ngames a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Off the fields, bed maintenance is their biggest issue. \u201cWe\u2019ve focused on beds for three years and we\u2019re just now getting them where we want them. It doesn\u2019t take long to get behind, particularly on the landscape side. We had beds covered with vines and had to use a skid steer to rip them out.\u201d Fortunately, because ASG does big construction jobs, they have access to lots of big toys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the sports turf is the most visible and challenging part\nof Carter\u2019s job. Traffic issues and underwhelming growth were gnawing problems.\nHe connected with friend and Aquatrols agronomist Duncan Stewart-Orris and\nkicked around the idea of using Redox. \u201cI knew a little about it from working\nin golf and I was intrigued.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carter worked with Vernon Jones of Plant Health Solutions to set up a test program. He started out by doing a monthly app (TurfRx Fairway+, Si, and K+ Micro Crystal) on his middle school field, which historically \u201cgets trampled and doesn\u2019t seem to grow as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just 10 months later? \u201cWe\u2019ve turned the corner. The plant\nhealth is much better. The appearance and the density of the plant materials\nare much improved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He relies as much on the insights he gets from Aquatrols and\nPlant Health Solutions as he does the products themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDuncan has baseline programs for all aspects of what we do here, including St Augustine, Zoysia, sports fields, and landscapes. Some of that was new to me so getting a grasp on that has been helpful. He\u2019s helped jumpstart the process. Two years later we\u2019re pretty close to where we need to be.\u201d Moving forward, Carter hopes to focus his attention on freshening up the look of the existing property and moving forward on building out a big new campus coming in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The support goes beyond plant nutrition. Carter has also\naddressed problems with soggy fields. \u201cBefore Redox came along, our focus was\ngetting on a consistent wetting agent program. The biggest issue we had was it\ntook us a while to get them dried out because of overwatering. Moisture and wet\nfields are a big problem. Football players need to be able to plant their feet\nwithout slipping.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carter says Dispatch\u00ae<\/sup> became his go-to because it works well and it\u2019s cost-effective. He also likes the dew suppression he gets from it and he\u2019ll throw Dispatch in with other tank mixes, particularly on his sports fields on the occasional fungicide apps he makes. \u201cWe use an 8 oz\/acre rate to push it down through the thatch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, Aqueduct\u00ae<\/sup> has become a staple of his program as well. \u201cI also have a few places that need a little extra help so sprayable Aqueduct has been a godsend.\u201d He’s on a 28-day spray rotation to put 32 oz\/acre of Aqueduct down on 21 acres of Bermuda. \u201cIt\u2019s easy, cost-effective and it\u2019s really helped to even out the wet\/dry issues.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He’s happy with the progress thus far. \u201cKeeping soil moisture where it\u2019s supposed to be has also been very important. Playability is key, especially when you have inconsistency in your soil. It\u2019s a night-and-day difference in less than three years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Villages is known as a golf mecca for retirees but it\u2019s also home to schools and sports fields. Josh Carter leads a team to care for those and he relies on Redox and Aquatrols to meet expectations. Everyone knows about The Villages, the famed Florida community that\u2019s home to thousands of retirees. But, you […]<\/p>\n

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