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It’s a new way of doing it for us, and it works much better, because


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conventional fertiliser was just going ‘poof’ and there was the long grass again


brought up all the nice years of topdressing, and made a lovely seed bed. We collected any debris using our Wessex Collector and then it was seeded two ways and dragmatted two ways. It’s really combatted the fairy rings. I know


there’s no hard-and-fast rule with fairy rings, but people have said that if you mix the profile up a bit, they don’t like that very much.


Contractors reseed our football pitches for us and we reseed the cricket squares ourselves, after the contractor scarifies them


two ways. We then topdress with our own machine. We now use Limagrain MM50 on our squares, which we purchase via ALS. It’s all perennial ryegrass, so it resists those fairy rings well and stays green year-round, which you need at a school.


I use a pre-seed in spring. In summer, we use a polymer coated slow-release fertiliser, and again in the autumn, as I think a lot of people do now. It’s a bit more expensive, but you get the conventional granular benefits for about four months too.


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The pre-seed I apply at Easter pretty much carries me through the school’s summer term. Then, the autumn/winter carries me through the next one. It’s a new way of doing it for us, and it


works much better, because conventional fertiliser was just going ‘poof’ and there was the long grass again. We’re alright for levels of nutrients, and I wanted to let it settle down for a bit. We let it go back naturally for a while, and it’s reduced both stress on the leaf and thatch. There is now no thatch in our football


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