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Well over two thirds of the pitch is in shade all day during the winter months


General Pitch Maintenance


General pitch maintenance at both the stadium and training ground (all pitches at the training ground are soil based) is as follows: Cutting - Carrow Road and training


ground pitches are cut every day except Sundays to 25mm. Two Dennis G860 cassette mowers are used at Carrow Road, utilising the verticut cassette once a week. John Deere ride on fairway mowers are used at the training ground. Aeration - A bi-monthly programme of solid tine spiking, using a John Deere ProCore, is carried out at both the training ground and stadium - 100mm deep at 50mm centres. This is followed by a monthly vertidraining of all the pitches. Gary will only ever goes to a maximum depth of 125mm on the Desso Pitch.


Spraying - Pest and fungicide spraying


is kept to a minimum, usually only spraying for leaf spot and fusarium. Gary rarely sprays for worms or red thread. Fertiliser feeds - A granular fertiliser


is applied every 2-3 weeks at Carrow Road (Scotts 12:0:9 / 9:7:7) with True Green organic liquids applied between feeds. The same products are used at the training ground but applied more sparingly. Soil analysis is carried out every two months.


A typical week’s maintenance at


Carrow Road will consist of: Monday - sweep and collect surface debris, mow and verticut. Tuesday - mow and aerate. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday - mow


pitch.


Saturday/Match day - mow and mark out using a Rigby Taylor spray jet marker and paint.


The pitch is brushed daily to remove dew and stand up the grass.


End of season renovations


After the season ends there are the usuall round of concerts and corporate matches (four a day for four weeks) leaving less than five weeks to get the pitch renovated before the start of the


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