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Bill Riley, BSc Hons. Dip Geoscience, Technical Manager for Vitax Amenity, steps into the ‘Danger Zone’ and says that plant nutrition involves much more than fertilisers, especially in drought conditions
pressure, drought stress, water shortage, shallow rooting, photo and heat scorch and specific summer diseases. Healthy turf resists summer stress. Winter and spring management and fertiliser operations should have set up the grass for a good summer performance, but you can take preventative and remedial actions throughout the summer. Drought stress started early in
D
anger zones for the summer months can be highlighted as: increased wear from play
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2011 throughout most of the UK. If dry conditions continue, drought stress will be the main danger to turf quality in the coming months. The pressure on water reserves and application systems will be great. Water restrictions may affect water availability in some areas. Best use of valuable water must be made. The following actions aim to maintain turf quality in dry conditions. Excess wear during the main
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playing period is exasperated by dry conditions. Healthy turf on a well-structured soil or substrate stands up to wear well, but excess foot and trolley traffic may damage turf under stress. Alleviate this traffic damage by route changes wherever possible. The integrity of the playing
surface must be maintained, not only for functionality but also to avoid water loss from exposed substrate with resulting cracking and erosion. Avoid any disturbance of the turf surface during very dry periods, as the organic cover binds
the surface and maintains an even substrate temperature. Alternative strategies are needed to mechanical processes. Wetting agents or water management products aid the passage of water through the organic layer into the soil or substrate below. If dry patch is a severe problem, resulting from waxy and humic debris remnants of fungal mycelium, then wax breaking products may be needed in particularly water-repellent areas. Wetting agents alone may not be able to penetrate these dry patch areas, resulting in almost no irrigation of the rootzone and run- off loss of water. Water management products not only aid penetration into the soil or substrate, they also aid the percolation laterally and vertically through the soil and attract water onto hydrophobic dry soil particles. The soil is wetted effectively to the full rooting depth with a minimum of run-through. Wetting agents vary in their effect and longevity, some lasting up to six months. Nutrients can only enter the root hairs as simple ions in solution. Good water management ensures that the maximum root area is able to take up water and nutrients, increasing turf strength and reducing wasteful run-through. Increasing root activity, root depth and root spread through the soil, increases drought resistance and overall stress. Phosphate and phosphite, amino acids and micorrhyzae all aid root health and root spread through the soil.
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