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Some of them have started to hire those out for money over the years, effectively operating it as a business.
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Worcestershire is one of the few left which still lend them as they were intended
those out for money over the years, effectively operating it as a business. Worcestershire is one of the few left which still lend them as they were intended.” “With those pieces of kit, we use a pedestrian spiker every autumn. We sometimes use Phil Day’s tractor-mounted Terra Spike too, and a fraise mow maybe once every five years.”
The club runs a second surface not far
away, which was tested not long ago. This showed high levels of potassium, and ideal
levels of clay for bouncy cricket. Naturally, Steve now uses low-potassium products on both surfaces.
“When we do the bulk-buying of feeds for the local clubs, we offer a checklist of requirements, such as low-potassium, low- iron or whatever.” “Here, I focus on quite a high level of iron, because it lies wet for long periods. It always will lie wet to an extent - that’s just in the nature of the terrain - but, the high-iron autumn/winter feed keeps it to a
manageable level.” “In the summer, I’ll take out a sprayer and spray the whole square with a seaweed- based feed, which may have contributed to the high levels of potassium, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as it results in good nutrition.”
And such priority is crucial, as profoundly and rhetorically expressed in the famous words of that legendary Feckenham lodgekeeper, Mr. Chaucer: “If gold rusts, what then can iron do?”
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