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Around mid-April, when we see a bit of growth, we will gradually drop the height of cut down to 4mm, this year we had to cut it down slightly earlier as we had the Cornish Festival in the first week of April and had to have the course competition ready earlier than normal. I generally like to roll more than we cut, so on a weekly basis we will roll three/four times and cut two/three, I like to have at least one day where we don’t do


anything other than brush the dew off. We will tine every month, from April through to September we use 8mm or 12mm tines at a depth of four to six inches and form October to March we use 12mm or 20mm tines at a depth of five to eight inches. If we can’t tine, we sarel roll.”


In the past, the greens have suffered heavily with various diseases. “About six years ago, I lost two or three greens to dollar


spot, and we used to have a terrible problem with take-all patch as well. To try and make sure this never happens again, we now tine as much as we can and have a consistent monthly programme limiting how much nitrogen we put down and looking more at soil health by using Biomass sugar, HumiMax, seaweed, phosphites and only adding N and K when we think we need it. Being consistent is the


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