Winter Sports - Football


What we did do, once the 1st team had finished, was reduce the height of cut to 18mm over a few days and the pitch looked like a Wilton carpet


New grass growing in - May 2016


and high iron issues have largely been resolved and we feel that the soil food web has greatly improved. The other main issue was to eradicate the infestation of poa that was allowed to establish last summer, due to the slow establishment of the rye grasses. So, this year’s renovations included a double spike with the Wiedenmann, linear aeration with an Earthquake, a fraize mow to remove the poa and disc seeding the pitch


three ways with 440kg of MM60. We also applied the slow release organic and inorganic fertilisers as well as a pre-seed feed.


Not turning the profile over means that


we have less air space to establish the new grass root systems in, so aeration will be the order of the day going forward. I write this article on the last day of May. The new seed is coming through nicely now, but the more


important point is the regeneration of all the rye grass that was left in the pitch after the fraize mow. We already have a very good head of grass there and we hope to build on that for the oncoming season. I’m hopeful that, with some nice weather this summer, we can get the pitch to perform even better than last season and, of course, we hope that the team will too.


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