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“We start mowing ten days after a normal renovation ‐ I’m less sure with this one ‐ and then it’s every other day for a while, stepped up to daily after a month’s fertiliser has set in.” “Normally, about three times during a season, we’ll put about eight bags of seed down. Because the weather’s good at the moment, some of the current germination, therefore, might be from as early as November.”


“That can depend on the weather, but I’m not sure it’s changed much since I started doing this about forty years ago.”


“Weather always changes. But, we still have years where we’ll put seed down in December and it will germinate in a few weeks and others where it will take until February.”


“That’s just the way the seasons swing, I think. This year’s been weird, because we’ve had spells of real warmth, but also spells of deep snow and rains.”


“Sometimes, we’ll feel the need to topdress during the season too. We haven’t done this year. We do all of those sorts of things throughout the season too.”


“Up to now, we’ve triple‐ mown it off to 35mm and finished with a ride‐on rotary. Again, it’s different now. It’ll all be walk‐behind, but again followed by the cleaning rotary at perhaps even below 30mm.” “We usually ProCore once per month, then use the large verti‐drain to get some 19mm


holes in there every three months. If we think it’s necessary, we can then run over it with a slitter too.” The club has frost sheets, which are around twenty‐five years old and are to be replaced. They also have a pitch covering system organised by the league on prioritised request, which consists of a heated inflatable dome, again for frost, but also sometimes for heavy rains.


“When they pump the dome full of the gas they use, it can get to over twenty degrees in there, which is very good for disease during the winter. We have to be ready to spray at a moment’s notice, which is the drawback to that.”


The pitch has run over 5‐ metre‐by‐1‐metre drainage pipes, although the nature of the profile often prevents water from running directly into these. These have been replaced with a system optimised for the new sand‐based profile and they are looking into whether the pitch currently holds enough irrigation heads, and whether to upgrade.


“Whilst we had the nematode issue a few years ago ‐ when it was all the rage ‐ we shook that off by maintaining good fertiliser usage.”


“That’s been around every six weeks in season since then, plus a good seasonal base twice a year, i.e. a spring/summer and an autumn/winter.”


“The component levels are a bit of a mix‐and‐match, which is good. It means that sometimes we can put down an


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