Winter Sports - Football
The evident disease had slowed things up but, once the disease had been checked, the pitch exploded back into life and Rob and I took thirty boxes of grass off
We had taken some more samples to test
for nematodes, sending them to Dr Colin Fleming for analysis. The count for antagonistic worms was high and we needed to step up our applications of Biomass to improve our chances of catching the hatchlings at the right time. We had been taking only a slightly
increased amount of grass clippings off every day. The evident disease had slowed things up but, once the disease had been checked, the pitch exploded back into life and Rob and I took thirty boxes of grass off the pitch on the 16th. The grass was still a little thin, but we had grass coverage everywhere (an excellent take from the renovation seeding) and, if we could get it to fill in, we would get through the now imminent game. I had already spoken to the stadium management the previous Friday to say that I was comfortable to have the game. We continued to mow daily and the grass
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was in full vigour. On Monday the 20th, we applied a half rate of seven bags of Amino1 fertiliser after mowing. I had ordered in some thick cut turf to repair the areas around the pitch pop-ups, and this arrived. The constant use of the sprinklers meant that rootzone around these areas was being disturbed and, whilst the grass was slowly establishing, we needed some stability around each head. Ian Somerville proved that he’s pretty
capable and managed to raise the low heads, by easing up the swing joints, without causing more damage than was necessary. We cut the weak areas out around each
head and cut and laid the fresh turf in neatly on Tuesday morning, before then cutting the pitch and applying 20 litres of Sea Action seaweed and 40kg of Sol control 12:0:39. On the 22nd, a half rate straight release
feed of 180 kg of Maxwell 12:0:6 went on after mowing as we moved onto a more
Rob Woods behind the Allett Buffalo
standard nutritional programme, since the grass was responding well and the weather improving. We had the pitch nicely banded out and
had been cutting continuously at 30mm leading up the game. I had spoken to the Warriors coach who said he wasn’t worried what the grass length was going to be, just delighted that they could play the game at the DW Stadium.
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