“The outfield is some kind of sandy rootzone”
Due to the fact that there has been no post/pre season work done, it takes 2 weeks just to get a track to a safe state. A typical week is something like this:
Saturday after match: brush/cut track, water ends and repair foot marks, set sprinklers to soak rest of track during the night.
Sunday: start preparations for game in 2 weeks. Check sprinklers did their job and move to the next track, sarrel spike the track just played on.
Monday: day off :) ... and after
At the moment, we’ve no idea what the nutrient content of the square is , and won’t know until we get the results of the core samples, so we’ve not put in place any fertiliser programme.
I’ve also made a conscious decision not to overseed this season at all, other than on the ends of tracks during repairs. With all of the tracks only being used twice during the season, before hopefully ripping the square to bits in September, it isn’t necessary to over seed throughout the season.
Tuesday: start lowering the cut on Saturday’s track, and roll track, make sure training area is ready for Tuesday training.
Wednesday: cut track for next week’s game, check for any extra repairs needed, roll Saturday’s track and water if required, put sprinklers on to next week’s track. Cut square.
Thursday: continue rolling Saturday’s track and cut again, put lighter rollers over next week’s track.
Friday: mark out Saturday’s track & boundary. Cut square if required.
Saturday: final cut of track. There may be additional tracks to
prepare if there is a colts game on that week.
I’d like to see the Mount Wise ground
returned to Minor Counties standard. It has, so far, been highly enjoyable seeing the ground come together for sport again, but it’s unlikely that I would ever move into groundcare full time. As an industry it’s something I know little about but everyone in it has been more than helpful. It seems that grounds maintenance is a fairly small and close- knit community, where everyone is more than willing to help each other. Finally, I would like to thank Firmac (the developers), who have given us a license to use the site, and committed to a long-term commercial lease. They are discussing a state of the art pavilion to take the club forward to the next level. Primarily, they want the ground to look good and realise that the better the standard of cricket that is played on it, the better it will be maintained and hence the better it will look. We’re certainly fortunate to have them as landlords and look forward to a long relationship with them.
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