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Peter Britton on 01952 898516 email:
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TERRAIN Turf and Trees
10” drill aeration 1m air injection 1m soil coring Air excavation
www.terrainaeration.com terrainaeration@aol.com
DRAINING 25 years in
WORTH
sports turf maintenance Verti-draining
Overseeding - Sanding Top Dressing Hollow Coring
Blec Groundbreaker
Tel/Fax 01476 550266 Mobile: 07855 431119/20
email:
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AERATORS
Full range of Groundsman pedestrian and tractor mounted models with all accessories
SALES AND HIRE
Contact Synergy Products on 01380 828337
Dave on mobile: 07971 843802 Email:
sales@synergyproducts.co.uk www.synergyproducts.co.uk
ARTIFICIAL
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In his own inimitable style, Ian Pogson, Product Specialist for Campey Turf Care Systems, waffles on about poor pitches, hand forking,
Herbage Legumes, or where I comes from we calls it grass - that’s grass with an a not a extended r, like the a in Bath, it’s not Barth, and the a in Malvern, if it was Molvern then it would be spelt with an o. However you say it, and now I’ve alienated everyone south of Watford Gap, we in the British Isles grow the best grass in the world. We are without peer when it comes to the green stuff. We also produce the best groundsmen in the world and provide the widest variety of sports with the best natural turf pitches to play on. We should accept, at this point,
Tel: 01449 673783
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VERBIAGE ABOUT HERBAGE!
scarification, aeration, overseeding ...
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that we have some of the worst and most over used also. Only recently, I went with my grandson to watch him play his first organised footie game. The coach was bewailing his lot that he could not play more matches for the under 7s, because he had fifteen teams that he had to fit in, and only one junior and one full size pitch! The other team’s coach had an even worse situation as he had to borrow an area of grass to train his seven teams on, as the local authority would not let him train on the main pitches. I was being asked what could be done to help them in their plight. For example, what should be done to maintain something like a reasonable playing surface? And all this without spending money! The work, of course, would be done with voluntary and, in most cases, unskilled labour. So, what do you say when confronted with this? Well, therein lies the rub. With the constant traffic of hundreds of pairs of feet over limited areas, compaction is the most serious
problem. Through rain, shine, drought and flood, the poor old earth takes a fearful battering and the surface of the ground becomes clogged and unable to breathe. The grass gets trodden into the top inch or so and, as the soil cannot breathe, the herbage will not break down and the soil becomes sour. We have all seen the groundsman going over these worst areas with a hand fork, either letting off surface water or aerating, but this will take an exceptionally dedicated individual to do a whole pitch this way. So, what cash have you got
available, what is the minimum standard you require, and how much time have you available to spend on it? The easiest way is to get a
contractor in to do the job and then sit and await the result of the project. After koroing, decompacting, seeding and topdressing you will see surprising results in a very short time. However, if the budget will not run to this, what can be done? Grass roots grow into the soil or, more correctly, in the microscopic spaces in between the soil particles and, if there aren’t any spaces, they don’t grow, and bare patches of ground will attract surface rooting grass like Poa Annua, and other weed grasses that now predominate our overused pitches. With that comes surface instability. I can remember, back in the day that Annual Meadow Grass or Poa Annua was accepted as an ornamental grass, we used to call it trembling grass as, when the
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