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With thirty grass tennis courts, countless croquet lawns, two bowls greens and a cricket square, end of season renovations at the Hurlingham Club are one of the busiest times for Grounds Manager Peter Craig and his team
AFTER one of the best summers in recent years, with plenty of sunshine, grass growth and, subsequently, extensive use of the facilities, Peter Craig says that it is essential to carry out robust renovations to rejuvenate the sward, get rid of any thatch, remove weed grasses, level up and reintroduce some new seed.
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Priority is given to the tennis courts and cricket square, mainly due to the fact that they are clay loam based and work needs to be completed before the onset of autumn rains and associated damp conditions as, once the clay gets wet, it becomes difficult to work with.
This year, Peter employed Total Play to come in and fraise mow the five match play courts and the cricket square, whilst undertaking the rest of the work in-house.
Peter was mindful that he needed to control some poa that had found its way onto the match courts, hence the decision to fraise mow.
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Work on the grass courts had begun in earnest during the early part of September, and a number of courts had already been completed by the in-house grounds team, prior to Total Play’s arrival on site, during which they had paid particular attention to scarifying, repairing base lines, topdressing and overseeding.
Once completed, they were covered with germination sheets, with good establishment achieved within six days thanks to the relatively mild temperatures.
Total Play were racing against the clock to get the courts finished before the onset of some predicted heavy rain, which was forecast to arrive later in the afternoon.
Peter uses three different websites to keep an eye on the weather front, and satellite predictions on all three were showing a heavy rain front sweeping in, so he was keen to get as much completed and the courts covered before it arrived.
It was certainly going to be a race against the clock. However, due to an enforced late start thanks to a traffic snarl up in this part of south London, Total Play were not able to complete all the work before the rain arrived, as predicted, at 6.30pm.
In that time, they had managed to fraise mow all five courts, scarify two ways diagonally with the tractor mounted Graden, clean off, overseed with a cyclone spreader, brush and cover the courts. The innovative use of three pedestrian blowers to help clean up the debris had helped to speed up the process.
With wet weather forecast for the whole weekend, no more work would be undertaken until the following week when Total Play were due to come back to undertake the renovations of the cricket square. As it turned out, Peter cancelled this work as he felt they were far enough behind with tennis renovations and, with continued bad weather, didn’t want to risk over burdening his already hard- pressed team.
Philip Dixon Contractors Ltd Established 1978
Sportsturf Drainage Specialist Drainage Construction Renovation Fraise mowing ...
Tennis
A busy time at the Hurlingham Club
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