Winter Sports - Football “
It was during this week that the management said that the Warriors had been drawn at home in the Challenge Cup Quarter final and was it a possibility to host the game at the stadium?
Growing in (31st May)
reinstate them the next day along the south end and the north end goalmouth where there was no grass germinating. Temperatures were still reasonably cool, and the wind was clearly having an impact coming, as it was, through the south-west corner of the stadium. It was during this week that the management said that the Warriors had been drawn at home in the Challenge Cup Quarter final and was it a possibility to host the game at the stadium, rather than play at an alternative venue? The game would be played the weekend of the 25th/26th June. I suggested that we had a good chance of getting the pitch there or thereabouts by then and asked what the cut off needed to be to make a final decision; I was told two weeks before the game. So now the race was on to get the new seedlings motivated. At this time of year, despite the ongoing Premier League rugby fixtures, the Warriors have a glut of presumably pre-determined away games to allow for the pitch renovations.
The grass was now starting to come
through in the poorer areas as well and I helped Ian with a liquid application of 10kg soluble Sol Control 12:5:39, 10 litres of SeaAction seaweed and 5 litres of a new trial product Humimax that we’re currently working on. This was sprayed on using a pedestrian Cub sprayer - a time consuming job. We pre-mixed 600 litres of water and products and then filled the sprayer around twenty-five times during the operation. We continued to irrigate as necessary and,
on Wednesday 1st June, applied another low dose of 10kg of Sol Control 12:5:39 and 20 litres of SeaAction seaweed. On Friday 3rd, we decided to rotary mow
the pitch, tipping the young shoots and rolling the surface. This was followed by another application of 10kg of Sol Control 12:5:39.
With the contract discussions going on in the background, Ian made the decision to try pastures new and, despite reassurances from the club and ourselves, sadly left the club. Ian’s two assistants, Rob Woods and Tony
Jump, continued to work alongside us, until they became employed by Maxwell Amenity. Rob has subsequently taken on the more senior role. We used the Hayter rotary mowers again on the Monday and, on the Tuesday, we got the two Allett Buffalo Cylinder mowers out and cut the pitch. Straight after cutting, we fertilised with 15 x 20kg of Maxwell Premier 20:10:10. I must admit that it’s a rare occasion these days when a fertiliser as strong as this has to be used, but with potentially two and a half weeks to go before the first game, I needed the grass to start moving quickly. We cylinder mowed daily now.
On Friday 10th June, we applied 20kg of
Sol Control with the pedestrian sprayer. By the following Tuesday, as temperatures
warmed and wet weather seemed to be the norm, I noticed some small patches of leaf spot on the surrounds of the pitch, so Wednesday 15th we applied a litre of Dedicate fungicide and then 40 litres of Biomass sugar in separate applications.
Rotary mowing on 14th June 76 I PC OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2016
Rugby post removal - with the aid of scaffolding and Metro Rod! (13th June)
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