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Gary was so generous with his time and understood the trials and tribulations of ordinary groundsmen at lower levels - he really spurred us on to try and put some of these things into action
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different techniques, and if it does go wrong the guys are terrific, they won’t mind because they are grateful to have something to use. It’s been a good opportunity from a fairly negative situation.” “Through Bob’s County Cricket connections [he is a level 4 cricket coach], we were fortunate enough to spend some time with Gary Barwell, Head Groundsman at Edgbaston, last year and, in many ways, he opened our eyes to the science of
preparing wickets and was a catalyst for our experimentation here. For example, he suggested far more brushing up of the grasses during preparation, not cutting the strip down until much nearer match day and looking at the effects of varying cutting heights. He was so generous with his time and understood the trials and tribulations of ordinary groundsmen at lower levels - he really spurred us on to try and put some of these things into action.”
“We always used to really rip out our
wickets and really rip out the grass with a manual scarifier. This time, what I’ve been trying is to verti-cut it really low instead, and I’m finding that it is preserving a lot more of the grass and the finer grasses. We aren’t ripping as much of the good quality stuff out, and I think it will mean that the wickets will come back quicker because we have to re- use them and that’s always a big challenge here. We need to get them off the wicket
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