Pitchcare Classifieds DRAINAGE
Miles Drainage Limited
Quality Land Drainage Systems for Sports Pitches, Golf Courses and other Amenity Areas
•Advice, design and installation •Piped systems •Sand Slitting •Gravel Banding
Tel: 01359 259424 Fax: 01359 258073 Web:
www.milesdrainage.co.uk
Email:
trenchers@milesdrainage.co.uk
forty members at the moment, most of whom play every day during the high season.
Greenkeeping
My duties include paperwork, such as programmes, scheduling and organising the workload with the Head Greenkeeper, plus working both as a spraying technician and irrigation technician. For major mechanic failures, we have the support of an external mechanic.
We employ nine crew members; a Head Greenkeeper, two assistants and six greenkeepers. We have a consultant from Germany who visits us a few times a year, to supports us for every single problem.
We don’t have an agronomy plan. Our Head Greenkeeper, together with our employer, decides what to do during the season, just checking the status of the turf every week.
Since opening, just over two years ago, the only procedures we have carried out are several verticuts and topdressing on greens, and a few localised verticuts and topdressing on tee boxes. Unfortunately, we don’t have any soil laboratory analysis carried out, so we put down fertilisers when we think the grass needs it. We use foliar (on the greens), granular and organic fertilisers, the latter just before the winter.
We spray herbicides on fairways and tees when broadleaved weeds come out, with dicamba, 2,4 D, and mecocrop as active ingredients, but we don’t spray
What’s in the shed?
John Deere 8700 fairway mowers x 2
John Deere 8800 rough mowers
John Deere 7200 fairway triplex mowers x 2
John Deere 2500 greens triplex mowers x 2
John Deere 4520 tractor John Deere 260A collar mower John Deere 220C greens mower Jacobsen 526A tees mower Jacobsen AR522 rough mower Toro Sand Pro Cardan blower
Cushman utility vehicle
Kubota F3680 rough mower John Deere Gator HPX x 2 John Deere Gator TX Flymo hover mowers x 2 Strimmers x 3 Engine Edger Chainsaws x 2 Verticut units x 3 Topdresser Vicon spreader Pedestrian spreaders x 2 Scotts pedestrian spreader Bargam sprayer Carraro Tigrecar
against the main types of fine turf that we have, such as Bermuda Grass (Cynodon dactylon), Annual meadow Grass (Poa annua), Knotgrass (Paspalum distichum) and Common Crabgrass (Digitaria sanguinalis).
We do a curative control against Fusarium (Microdochium nivale), Dollar Spot (Sclerotinia homeocarpa), Brown Patch (Rhizoctonia cerealis) and Red Thread (Laetisaria fuciformis); for these diseases we use prochloraz, propiconazole, tebuconazole and propamocarb as active ingredients.
Against the main insects, such as Cranefly (Tipula oleracea) and Summer Chafer (Amphimallon solstitiale), we used to apply clorpirifos as an active ingredient, but it has recently been banned, so we are seeking an alternative.
Sometimes, wild boars appear on our turf and, when that happens, they can do a lot of damage. To control them, we have installed an electric fence.
I keep records of irrigation water and carry out chemical analysis of conductibility and pH. I also keep records of temperature and rainfall, which are important to know when to irrigate. The irrigation is probably the most important part of our job, especially in Italy where the season is represented by dry summers. Our grasses require about 32mm/week on greens and tees, 25mm/week on fairways. We keep an eye on thatch levels by eye.
Telephone: 01952 898516
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