If it’s cheap, it’s cheap for a reason
demanding market. Mixing is conducted by trained, supervised staff in specialist mixers and samples are taken from each mixture to ensure quality. There’s a great deal of skill in mixing grass seed successfully - with different seed sizes, weights and characteristics, it calls for a skillful operator with knowledge and dexterity - it’s a bit like the care you take when preparing your favourite recipe!
The company also employs
a carefully controlled lot rotation/selection system, where lots are individually recorded on a computer so that no seed is left to decline. This is vital to the germination and
establishment vigour of the seed - if a customer is investing in an overseeding programme, then they are investing in performance results.
Equally, customers should always question the age and vigour of the seed they are
buying. Remember that the date on the bag is the date it was packed, not an indication of the age of the seed inside. With the coming of the
credit crunch you may be ‘encouraged’ to buy 2009 seed now at 2008 prices, but how will such seed perform six months on - especially if stored in poor conditions and already declining in vigour? If it’s cheap, it’s cheap for a reason.
It is worth noting that
correct seed storage also encompasses the quality of the bags they are packed in. Barenbrug has invested a great deal in optimum bag design to ensure they are strong and adequately perforated to keep the contents well ventilated. Even something as
seemingly insignificant as the mist kicked up from the wheels of a lorry can make bags damp during transit, weakening them and compromising the health of the seeds.
Weed Control in Amenity
This topic is of particular and growing relevance following the passing by the European Parliament of ‘The Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive’, which requires significant cuts to be made in pesticide use by 2010.
The seminars will be of particular benefit to Local Authority staff, contractors, landscapers and others with responsibility for managing or implementing weed control in amenity areas and other open spaces.
Thursday 5th March: Twickenham Rugby Stadium
Tuesday 10th March: Wolverhampton Wanderers FC's Molineux Stadium
Thursday 12th March: Manchester City FC's City of Manchester Stadium
All seminars run from 10.00am - 1.00pm and will be followed by a buffet lunch.
Advance booking is required, please contact Emma Brownlie on 01952 641949.
More details of the seminars and speakers can be found on
http://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/article.php?id=6284
www.greencast.co.uk www.greencast.ie
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See the future of disease control
...we’ve got the disease control programme you can trust
Situations - Future Options Free half-day regional seminars, organised by Amenity Land Solutions, looking at some of the options available for complete weed control in amenity situations.
The Syngenta range of turf fungicides has been specifically developed to provide outstanding levels of disease control.
Adopting a programmed approach - rotating Heritage, Banner MAXX and Daconil Weather Stik through the season – can deliver cost-effective, reliable and sustainable turf disease control - now, and in the future.
Combined with the independently proven advice from
www.greencast.co.uk you can be confident of applying the right product, at the right time, to maintain the ultimate turf.
Whatever the sport...
...whatever the season...
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