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The recent winter with its record rainfall was tough for all groundsmen
However, despite this, the contracts team at the Twickenham Stoop Stadium, home of Harlequins Rugby Club, were still able to promote a strong and healthy sward; the best it has been in the club’s fifty years at the stadium.
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A little rainfall fact: 10mm of rain across the surface area of the pitch is equal to 94,000 litres of water. During the winter period, The Stoop received on average 50mm of rainfall per week, which lasted for a period of more than eight weeks! This equates to just shy of half a million litres per week. All this had to be carefully managed by Nick Ebelthite, Grounds Manager at Nurture Landscapes and Head Groundsman Paul Sykes, whilst also working to keep the pitch playable during a very busy calendar for the Premiership Club. This often meant the team had to be on site from 3.00am clearing water and aerating the surface.
The Harlequins team is renowned
for their style of play which is fast and flowing. For the team to be able to achieve this, it is vital that a consistent firm dry surface is provided. The pitch itself has not had any major renovations or improvements over the last fifteen years and, up until this year, their summer renovation window has been restricted to 3-4 weeks as The Stoop was also home to the London Broncos Rugby League team. This year, Nick and Paul were given a ten week window and they didn’t waste any of it!!
On June 2nd 2014, work commenced on the biggest renovation of the pitch to date. Given the level of improvements that Nurture have been able to make over the course of the last two years, by utilising the correct maintenance programmers, the
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