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Then don’t side-step on quality says Simon Hutton of Fineturf as he helps Dave Balmer, Head Groundsman at Gloucester Rugby Football Club, tackle his reseeding job
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loucester Rugby Club are currently preparing for the new Guinness
Premiership season. These preparations follow last season’s successes in which they finished a well-deserved top.
Their success over recent seasons has been aided by having an excellent surface at Kingsholm where Gloucester have played their home games since 1891. The pitch is made from the natural land with a gravel layer over clinker, there is no artificial drainage system or rootzone. The natural soil, which was placed over the gravel layer, is silty loam.
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At the end of last season Dave Balmer, Stadium Manager and Head Groundsman, called in Simon Hutton from Fineturf to carry out the end of season renovation.
The pitch received considerable wear during last season from the first and second team games, plus hosting the EDF Challenge Cup Final and also the Ireland against Barbarians game. To this prestigious list one then has to add the punishment from the regular training sessions which are such an
important part of today’s game. The pitch came through the season very well but, as Dave is always striving to improve the surface, he was keen to make sure the renovations went well.
The work on the pitch didn’t start until the end of May and, therefore, such a short close season increased the pressure on Dave to produce a quality sward.
The first job to tackle was the installation of two 80mm lateral drains up one wing. The surface was then fraise mowed with a Blec Combinator and any remaining debris was removed with a Trilo Vac.
The application of sand is a fundamental operation in any pitch renovation project, and here Simon takes up the story.
“We supplied and applied 90 tonnes of Leighton Buzzard sand and then Earthquaked the pitch. After this we sowed MM60 at 70gm per square metre in four directions. This particular mixture is based around a top quality formulation and its performance is now legendary, having been used in a number
Reseeding
TACKLING RESEEDING?
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