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“How the new legislation will be put into action will depend on interpretation, and that’s where
the fun starts” PAUL CAWOOD
LANGUARD LTD
Trees - ownership and risk .... 20 A question of quality .............. 22 Nematodes .............................. 26 Growing in the Castle ............ 30 Winter Play Revisited ............ 40 The Tide is High ...................... 44 How High? ................................ 48 Short Cut to Better Golf ........ 52 Snow Go Area .......................... 54 Two Fingers .............................. 62 Part Time Love ........................ 68 Pitch Doctoring ........................ 88 Operation Pollinator .............. 96 Back to Basics III .................... 98 The Good Oil .......................... 108
PLUS: Sand and Deliver, Growing In Pitches, Budgets and Volunteers, Busman’s Holiday, Mad on Butterflies, Anyone for a Bailey’s?, You Need to Lead, Frank Newberry, Making Adjustments, Bunker Drainage, Soil Sampling, Liquid Aeration
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The wording that is objectionable here is the suggestion that a product that is less risky to your body than coffee or salt will somehow effect your child’s development or make the ill more ill ...
BRUSSELS SPOUTS .................. 8
LONDON’S PRIDE Peter Craig talks about the work undertaken at the
Hurlingham Club on the banks of the River Thames in south west London.
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TV TIMES
In part III of our look into the requirements of televising sport Celtic Manor’s Jim McKenzie looks forward to the 2010 Ryder Cup.
EXTRAORDINARY LENGTHS Former Ohio State University intern, David McGregor, now
works full time at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Virginia. He gives us an insight into the work being undertaken.
CRISP THINKING Ed Mowe, Head Groundsman at Leicester City, says that
regular aeration and controlling moisture content are essential when managing sand based pitches.
MOYLES BETTER! Rob Smith has got his work cut out at Featherstone Rovers
but, with the help of Radio One breakfast show DJ, Chris Moyles he believes things are looking up.
KEEPING UP APPEARANCES Investment in a brand new playing surface at Ibrox, the
home of Rangers FC, was not the end of the story for Head Groundsman, David Roxburgh
FRIENDLY FUNGI Turf Managers have, most often associated fungi with plant
disease in the past, though there are, in fact, fungal groups that can provide benefit to plants and the soil.
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