Winter Sports - Football
take them up on their own. Andrew had his last day, having
worked his month’s notice period. It was a shame that he was going as he’d worked diligently with me and Richard and could see that the working dynamics had changed with our involvement. He said to me, “if you guys had come in a year ago, I wouldn’t be leaving”, but he’d made his decision back in January to take on a property management business in Mallorca with his partner, and a new life was waiting. Despite him going, he has popped in a number of times and, since emigrating abroad, we all regularly stay in touch with updates on his new business and the pitch progress. When we came in on the
Monday morning, we could see a dramatic improvement and we cut the pitch, taking four boxes each off. Then we fertilised it with 120kg of Potassium Nitrate. We continued to mow each day, taking a steady eight boxes off, and then fertilised it again on the 2nd July with another 120kg of Potassium Nitrate. This was after we’d borrowed the Pro-Core from Wayne at Wolves and aerated it on its tightest setting.
On the Monday, the weather
was poor and we left the pitch alone but, on Tuesday the 8th, the grass had exploded into life and, much to our delight, we took thirty-three boxes of grass off. We cut it both ways that day and, despite the hard work, the relief that the pitch was finally responding was gratifying. We mowed the pitch every day
from then on; the bands were properly set out and it looked like a pitch ready for the start of the season. On Thursday the 16th, we applied twelve bags of Maxwell Advanced 12:3:9 +Mg +Fe. On the 17th, we double cut the
pitch, on the eve of our first pre- season game against Cardiff City FC. We also measured and set out where the pitch markings would be. We hung the nets back on the goals that we had rubbed down and repainted during the closed season. We were still maintaining the
height of cut at 30mm, I had discussed and agreed this with the Manager and coaching staff for the pre-season games. Matchday 18th July - Richard and I cut the pitch first thing and then string lined and marked the pitch for the first time. The sun
Irrigation misses
Germination in patches
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