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“As many a groundsman can confirm, once your players are behind you, you’ve cracked it”


had a sixteen day gap in the fixture list to resow everything,” he recalls. On day nine, the Hove ground


played host to Elton John, leaving Andy an even tighter deadline in which to complete the renovation. He reseeded throughout with iSeed and, by the end of July, could survey what he describes as “a very healthy-looking square”. The price per bag for iSeed is slightly more than the existing mix, says Andy, but adds: “The extra cost kg for kg of seed is more than recouped, I believe, by the savings in fertiliser and, most importantly, the benefits to be gleaned. This is a big thumbs up from Sussex County Cricket Club.”


they say, and Andy was able to extol the virtues of his new find to forty-five cricket club colleagues around the county at a Groundsman’s Association meeting held at Hove recently. “I can’t believe I ever


doubted it but, until you see something with your own eyes, you never know.”


weeks ago, when a visiting player walked into the nets


He recalls a moment, a few


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