TOP DRESSING AND SOILS Surrey GOSTD 75 Loam
GOSTD 75 is suitable as village and school standard cricket wicket top dressing and soil conditioner. The Loam is primarily formulated to provide a medium strength clay content of approximately 23%-25% with a healthy proportion of organic matter and good binding qualities.
As a top dressing GOSTD 75 will help to provide a medium paced wicket and is ideal for venues where there is not a full time groundsman. GOSTD 75 is also recommended for soil conditioning in conjunction with hollow tining procedures, when the
existing soil structure has broken down, stimulating root growth and promoting a healthy vigorous sward.
Key Points: Medium clay loam Suitable for village and school standard cricket
Binder K Pitch Dressing (Formerly Binder Kaloam 2011)
Binder's K Pitch Dressing is a good club quality loam with 38% clay content and can be used to top dress over and create a firm cricket wicket. Binders have a reputation for excellence in the quality control and formulation of loams and this expertise has been used to create Binder's K Pitch Dressing.
Typical Soil Analysis Clay Silt
Sand
38% 51% 11%
Motty Strength 65kg
Kettering Loam
Kettering Loam has a typical clay content of 24%. This loam has been used by local authorities and school cricket pitches for many many years. The loam is ideal where a pitch is required to give a quality surface while receiving a minimal amount of preparation.
Benefits
• Boughton Loams produce quality, hard, consistent pitches with good bounce and carry
• Free draining for quick and easy pitch preparation and fast grass seed germination
• Sterilised to stop the importation of weed seeds and soil born fungi which can develop into fairy rings
• Boughton Loam dressings are guaranteed dry to enable easy spreading either by hand or through mechanical spreaders.
Surrey GOSTD 125 Loam
Surrey GOSTD 125 is renowned as a first class club cricket wicket top dressing and soil conditioner. The loam is the most popular cricket dressing from the GOSTD range of loams and features a high clay content of approximately 26% - 30%, with strong binding qualities.
Specially produced as a top dressing for the finest quality wickets, to provide and maintain a fast pacey surface. GOSTD 125 has proved its worth over many years in the successful preparation of an ever increasing number of the country’s superior cricket squares.
Key Points: Heavy clay loam
Suitable for first class club standard cricket
Ongar Loam™
Ongar Loam™ is a county and club wicket quality topdressing with a high clay content of 31% to create high quality and top performing wickets.
Ongar Loam is a heavy clay loam screened to 4mm. When rolled under the correct soil moisture conditions, Ongar Loam gives hard wickets of consistent pace and bounce. Adequately supplied with available nutrients for healthy grass growth. pH 7.9.
Typical Soil Analysis Clay Slit
Sand
31% 38% 31%
Motty Strength 76kg
Boughton Kaloam
Boughton Kaloam can be relied upon to integrate into all cricket pitches that are constructed or historically top dressed using Kaloam. Boughton Kaloam will produce the now legendary hard fast tracks renowned for their pace and bounce.
Benefits
• Boughton Loams produce quality, hard, consistent pitches with good bounce and carry
• Free draining for quick easy pitch preparation and fast grass seed germination
• Sterilised to stop the importation of weed seeds and soil born fungi which can develop into fairy rings
• Boughton Loam dressings are guaranteed dry to enable easy spreading either by hand or through mechanical spreaders
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