Winter Sports - Football
he then checked it and fitted the connections, before final testing. We rolled it out for its first trial
20th November and the first lighting rig goes on
that evening. It was a proud moment for all of us, but more so for Richard and Andy Muir, as it was them who had first started the ball rolling at least twelve months earlier with West Midlands Police to get some seized grow lamps. In fact bizarrely, West Mercia Police, our local force, had refused to donate lights for legal reasons, so a massive thanks to West Midlands for their support. The team again wanted to train on the pitch as suitably dry venues were seemingly at a premium, so Monday was spent watching them continue to create damage and us doing our best to repair it! On Friday the 27th, we mowed
17th November and a dose of Maxwell Premier
the pitch in both directions with the cylinders and marked out ready for the League game against Gillingham, a game that ended in a 2-2 draw. On Sunday 29th, Hurricane Clodagh descended; more rain, and the local area is starting to look more like marsh land as the River Severn burst its banks again. My rain gauge showed 58mm (nearly 3”) of rain in a twenty-four
hour period. We cut and prepared the pitch
through Monday and Tuesday, (the beginning of December already) ready for the rearranged Walsall game, which passed with a loss and not too much pitch damage. We repaired again on Wednesday morning, before a quick mow with the Hondas and a liquid application of Seaweed 10L, Iron 10L and 50kgs of Sol control 12:0:39+mg. At the beginning of this week,
we took some soil samples from across the pitch and sent them off to be analysed. On Thursday 3rd December we
applied eight 20kgs bags of 3:3:12 Maxwell Premier granular feed. Through Saturday and Sunday,
Storm Desmond descended with high winds and yet more rain. We received the soil analysis
back from the lab on the 8th December; it made for pleasant reading. The macro and micro nutrients now fell within the required parameters, and phosphate was now at a very manageable level. Iron remained high at 1300ppm, so had dropped by over 500ppm since the first analysis in May. We hadn’t even used a wetting agent on the pitch
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