 “


The school went through a period where the groundsman or head of estates didn’t like trees which has created a forty to fifty- year gap


  an hour and reports all the stats, including  this will help greatly in planning and also to   pitches, I’ve also installed SoilSCaPE which  as well as moisture values for each playing   it and enabled me to build a good picture of what’s happening in and above the ground     tried various other methods of control that     start spraying products earlier than you usually would in order to discourage the  


 I’d had anywhere which was surprising, 


 Increasing the sand content doesn’t work on    don’t think anything will be done, and most   


east seems to have calmed things down, for  tried Downcast, but it only seemed to give a      worse than it is now, so something needs to  


“Badgers are a big issue for us on one part of the site, as they burrow under the trees and   and dig up from there which causes leaks but, luckily, they don’t tend to come onto site   


know there are thireteen sets, so I’m sure  Squirrels also do quite a lot of damage to


trees by stripping the bark and they have a   day they were all chewed through which is  Given the many trees on site, there are  woodpeckers, and there is also an apiary and    of cardboard in a dedicated area, so nothing   and the team are currently developing the   Other future plans include the purchase of a new GPS linemarker which will see a   the pitches up, it will only require one, for a  lacrosse pitch is currently three hours work…     Other improvements will include a


    built ten years ago and Andy has taken them  programme of levelling all the pitches and   wouldn’t have lost so many sessions if the  “Each pitch needs to be as good and as


Green waste site 


 goes up every year, however, the amount   I’ll be making a return visit to keep an eye 


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