Pitchcare Classifieds TREE ROOT AERATION
TERRAIN Turf and Trees
10” drill aeration 1m air injection 1m soil coring Air excavation
www.terrainaeration.com terrainaeration@aol.com
TURF SUPPLIERS Tel: 01449 673783
Specialist growers of sportsturf and golf turf with a wide range of grades, rootzones, thick and fibre reinforced turf
Tel: 01904 448675
sales@turf.co.uk
www.turf.co.uk
Growers of natural & rootzone sports turf using the very best STRI cultivars
• Custom grown turf • ‘Instant play’ sports pitch turf • Reinforced fibreturf
•Washed turf available in all turf grades
• Nationwide delivery at a time to suit you
• Forklift offload • Contracting service • Overseas supply
Tel: 01724 855000
email:
info@countyturf.co.uk www.countyturf.co.uk
USED MACHINERY
Specialists in Turf Care Machinery t: 01282 453900
e:
sales@balmersgm.com w:
www.balmersgm.com
• Compact Tractors • Ride-On Rotary Mowers • Ride-On Cylinder Mowers • Chippers • Trailers
• Attachments • Accessories • Mini-diggers • Pedestrian Mowers • Hand-held Equipment
The largest stock of second-hand turf care machinery in the UK
Visit our new website
www.balmersgm.com
Specialist growers of turf for sport and amenity
Winter sports Football and rugby
70% Ryegrass 30% Smoothstalk Standard thickness up to 50mm Golf
Greens, tees, fairways, bunkers ••••••
Specialists in 1.2m wide big roll - supply only or supply and lay
Tel: 01652 678 000
www.tillersturf.co.uk
Greenhous Stadium
In issue 38, the Shrewsbury Town groundsmen, Richard Barnett and Andrew Muir gave us a detailed account of preparing for, and renovating after, an Elton John concert on the Greenhouse pitch. Here, Andrew offers an update on how the pitch is currently performing
groundsmanship wise. The football side of things has gone well. At the time of writing, the club are undefeated at home in all competitions this season, and are pressing for promotion from League Two.
I
Northamptonshire Derbyshire Buckinghamshire 01536 510515
Used Turfcare Machinery 01283 704664 01895 834411
Email:
enquiries@boughton.co.uk www.boughton.co.uk
www.pitchcare.com 150 PC APRIL/MAY 2012
The renovation work carried out in the original article, whilst not ideal, worked and has seen us through the season. The pitch was vertidrained throughout the season every three to four weeks, and Marathon fertiliser with an NPK of 16:4:8 applied whilst the grass was growing. We used the verticutter cassettes in our Dennis mowers after every game to clean up the pitch whilst the grass was growing and, during the winter months, used the brush cassettes. From the start of the season, we had a small black layer problem, which we managed to keep under control with our regular pitch clean ups and vertidraining.
t is fair to say we have had a tough time of it,
TURF SUPPLIERS
Football
After the show has left town...
Andrew Muir
We did have a slight problem of losing grass due to not having a good root depth, but we persisted with a divot mix containing rootzone and Barenberg Bar 7 grass seed, which we used right up to Christmas. We lost our assistant
groundsman (and winner of last season’s Pitchcare Fantasy Football League), Dominic Murray, to Reading FC in October. Dom went to work at the Royals training ground and we joked we would see him next season in League One. At that time, Shrewsbury were in the top three in League Two and Reading were languishing towards the bottom half of the Championship. Since Dom’s arrival, they have not looked back, and could make a return to the Premier League. I am not suggesting his arrival at Reading has anything to do with the upturn in the Royals fortunes! The chairman asked us if we could continue without a replacement for Dom to save money and although, at times, it
AERATION
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88 |
Page 89 |
Page 90 |
Page 91 |
Page 92 |
Page 93 |
Page 94 |
Page 95 |
Page 96 |
Page 97 |
Page 98 |
Page 99 |
Page 100 |
Page 101 |
Page 102 |
Page 103 |
Page 104 |
Page 105 |
Page 106 |
Page 107 |
Page 108 |
Page 109 |
Page 110 |
Page 111 |
Page 112 |
Page 113 |
Page 114 |
Page 115 |
Page 116 |
Page 117 |
Page 118 |
Page 119 |
Page 120 |
Page 121 |
Page 122 |
Page 123 |
Page 124 |
Page 125 |
Page 126 |
Page 127 |
Page 128 |
Page 129 |
Page 130 |
Page 131 |
Page 132 |
Page 133 |
Page 134 |
Page 135 |
Page 136 |
Page 137 |
Page 138 |
Page 139 |
Page 140 |
Page 141 |
Page 142 |
Page 143 |
Page 144 |
Page 145 |
Page 146 |
Page 147 |
Page 148 |
Page 149 |
Page 150 |
Page 151 |
Page 152 |
Page 153 |
Page 154 |
Page 155 |
Page 156