FOOTBALL


We continued with our regime of seaweed, bio stimulants and sugar as well as nutrition and, although the weather was still


” Aerial view nineteen days before the Brentford game


Humimax bio stimulant, Biomass sugar and fertiliser. This was working well, but with only two weeks before the pre-season friendly against Brentford, we put on a full rate 20:10:10 to give the grass the necessary boost it needed. It was filling in quickly and, to prevent any incidence of disease, we also put down a preventative dose of fungicide. With such a short window, we couldn’t take the chance that disease would knock us back.


We brought in a couple of pallets of thick cut turf from Tillers, using this primarily to repair the drain lines at the training ground, but also to patch around the three pop ups in the centre of the stadium pitch, where the grass had been washed away with the sprinklers coming on regularly. Root growth was around 35mm by the time we played Brentford, there were still a few small patches, and the pitch sward was still thin. We got the soil moisture in the pitch


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testing, we were now able to reduce our watering schedule to encourage the roots to go down


to around 34% before the game kicked off, but although it dried quickly during the game there was very little damage. Now we had two more weeks to get the grass established towards maturity. We continued with our regime of seaweed, bio stimulants and sugar as well as nutrition and, although the weather was still testing, we were now able to reduce our watering schedule to encourage the roots to go down.


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