Winter Sports - Football
as yet so, all in all, a much more comfortable set of results. The pitch continued to cope with the excessive rainfall much better than could be said for the surrounds, which were now pudding-like. On Monday 14th, we cut the pitch, turning just off the lines to avoid the swamps off the pitch. To smell freshly cut grass in December was quite amazing and we removed six boxes of grass. The mild, wet weather caused us big problems with worms and their casts though. I’d say that we have lost more grass being buried under casts than by player damage, thus far. To add to our recent woes of inclement weather and training, the team only managed a draw against non-league Grimsby in the 2nd round of the FA Cup, so we got the pitch ready for the replay on Tuesday 15th. We repaired and mowed the
pitch on the Wednesday and then continued our fortnightly trickle feeding with the application of eight bags of 3:3:12. The light rig was clearly starting to work and we had three yellowing bands of grass in the south end goal area where we kept moving the rig every forty hours.
We decided to try something a
little stronger, feed wise, as the lights were clearly sapping up nutrients from the plants much quicker than the rest of the pitch, so we also put 30kgs of potassium nitrate through the middle of the pitch. This probably wasn’t our best idea ever, since the mild temperatures and rain led to another bout of fusarium and leaf spot, emanating from the middle of the pitch. We duly applied 1L of Medallion through the middle on the Friday. We were also getting the pitch mown and ready for our League game against Swindon the next day. The pitch played well again; we were getting consistently good comments from all the away team coaches and players, which was well received by all of us. Obviously, the away teams liked to come and play on a decent surface and Swindon ran out 1-0 winners on the day. Christmas Eve and Storm Eva hit, bringing another 38mm (1.5”) of rain with it overnight and into Christmas Day. We had prepared the pitch on the Thursday, with the exception of marking out, which we left until Boxing Day morning. The team managed a
18th December: Richard mowing with the Dennis G860
18th December: south goalmouth
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