Pitchcare Classifieds AERATION
DRAINAGE
Football Not too bad!
July 8th, the day before Stockport County’s first game Draining and Gravel Banding
also Vertidraining, Hollow Coring, Overseeding, Field Top Maker, Deep Scarifying
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TERRAIN Turf and Trees
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Philip Dixon Contractors Ltd Established 1978
Sportsturf Drainage Specialist Drainage Construction Renovation
Liam Cash, Head Groundsman at Stockport County FC, explains how relegation to the Conference affected end of season renovations and how his pitch is looking going into winter
IN April, we had our renovation planned and signed off to be started on Sunday 5th May. We planned to koro off the top 15mm, add 100 tonnes of Fibresand, cultivate, prepare for seeding and apply pre-seed and twenty bags of seed. However, as soon as we were relegated, we had to cancel all plans and come up with a much scaled down renovation.
We used a local contractor and work was completed on 11th May. We heavily scarified the pitch, added sixty tonnes of rootzone, vertidrained, seeded with twenty bags of MM60 seed and applied sixteen bags of Marathon sport pre-seed.
Thirteen days later, I applied fourteen more bags of pre-seed and, after seventeen days, cut the pitch for the first time. From then on I was cutting the pitch every other day.
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Blec Vibro Sand Banding : Koro Surfacing : Vertidraining : Topdressing : Overseeding Sand Slitting : Blec Vibro Sand Banding : Landscaping
Koro Surfacing : Vertidraining : Topdressing : Overseeding If it’s drainage, it has to be Duncan Ross!
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At the beginning of June, I sprayed the pitch with a tank mix of Intrench, Go Green, Rootmass and Greenmaster step liquid. A couple of weeks later, I followed that by applying fourteen bags of 12:0:9 and, a further week later, sprayed the pitch with a tank mix of Primo Maxx and Magnet Rapide.
We are having to tackle the issue of Poa which is visible in patches, partly down to the fact we didn’t manage to koro off the surface.
Throughout June we have been hit with leafspot, which I have managed to spray off; not once, but twice. We spotted it fairly quickly, but its far from ideal!
Into July and I’d cut the pitch pretty much six days a week. Our first game was on the 9th July, eight and a half weeks after seeding.
I put down a 16:4:8 on 3rd July, which helped the pitch come on in preparation for the first game. In the build up to the game, I was pleased with how the pitch was coming on and I was cutting twice a day before marking out and keeping the water on close to kick off time.
We then had another two weeks until we had four games in the space of ten days, which included friendlies and testimonials. The pitch entered that period in good condition and came out the other side well. It was a good test for the new seed and I was pleased to get through those games relatively unscathed.
Overall, I’m happy with the pitch at the moment, although its not been easy and, at one stage, it didn’t look like we would be able to carry out any renovation at all yet, eight and a half weeks later, we had a pitch that was up to scratch and ready.
There’s been a lot of work done since then which has improved the pitch further and maintained the sward and overall quality of the surface, and I’m confident the pitch will enter the winter months in a good condition. There’s been a lot of pressure put on the lone Dennis G860 as I have been cutting most days but, at the moment, I’ve managed to keep on top of things. Since our first game on 9th July we’ve had seven games [at the time of writing this in early September]. The pitch has played well and I’ve tried to present it as well as I can by keeping on top of the fertiliser programme I have, repairing the pitch after games and cutting the pitch nice and clean in the build up to a game and
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