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AERATION ARTIFICIAL
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Swindon’s County Ground is famous for League football, but is also home to a bowls green owned by the Borough Council and looked after by greenkeeper, Martin Mansfield
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his season, the football ground has looked “its best ever” following a radical end- of-season renovation carried out by Ecosol Turfcare, so it was not surprising that the local authority felt encouraged to see what could be done to achieve a similar improvement on their sports facilities.
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The company also operates the Drill n Fill aerator, and it was this piece of equipment that Martin Mansfield felt would be just right for his poorly draining bowls green which was often closed following heavy rain.
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“It’s an old push-up green made out of clay,” Martin told Pitchcare. His team had religiously hollow and solid tined the surface to a depth of 2” and he had introduced vertidraining to 9” for the past two years, but the green remained prone to ponding. With frequent surface water
following two really wet summers, the green was not in the shape Martin and the members would have liked. “Grass growth was poor with predominantly meadow grasses instead of Fescues and Bent,” he said. “Poor drainage led to a vicious circle of problems. After a heavy downpour, we would have pooling on the surface, but there was no alternative, so we’d have to close the green for two or three days as the whole thing would resemble a huge mud pie”. Vertidraining, frequent
scarification and verticutting were actually compounding the problem, and the aftermath of poor drainage went on and on. The
biggest issue, he said, was that members couldn’t understand why the closures had to be so prolonged in the middle of the bowls season. When the flood disappeared from the surface, members thought it would be okay to play on but, in reality, the surface would drain no further than one inch depth and the green was “puddingy” for up to three days. “Then compaction would make everything worse and round we went again, with some very disgruntled members,” said Martin. Keen to avoid another summer of discontent, he called in the Ecosol Drill n Fill aerator in mid March. “I’d seen it work to good effect in the United States, and felt it could be the solution we were looking for,” he said . Employing a backfill mix of 80:20 Leighton Buzzard sand and Sportslite, the Drill n Fill went to a depth of 13”, creating a web of long-lasting drainage ducts which allowed the water to percolate through the clay.
Sportslite soil amendment is a pure, non-chemical soil enhancer, which is EU approved for use in organic applications, and the properties of this completely natural porous mineral offered the enhancements that fell in line with Martin’s goals. It temporarily entraps nutrients within the rootzone for maximum
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