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I would always come across to him and say, what do you think? Could


you cast your experienced eye over certain things, to help keep him motivated


managed to get the money to do the work. It has been fantastic, until a couple of years ago when we started to see surface water lying for two to three days, and we got a wee bit concerned. To relieve the problem, we got the contractor in who installed the system. They came in and blew the pipes, and since then it has been okay.” The square was reconstructed twenty years ago using Boughton Loam. Norman talks me through his meticulous


maintenance regime. “I target the second week in March, weather permitting, to start work as you can still get snow before then. Whether it is right or wrong, I will fi rst go out with the rotary mower set quite high and take the top off for the fi rst three cuts over two weeks. Then that becomes manageable for the Dennis and, if the weather is reasonable, I will set the height of cut to 16mm. I will take the top off again whilst, at the same time, giving the square a light roll.


Gradually, I will lower the height of cut until I get to 12mm.”


“My regime then turns to the scarifi er, which is something very diff erent from what was done previously. We have a Graden scarifi er, which is a monster of a machine to use; it really works those upper arms when turning at the end of the square. I will use this once a month and, when you see the amount of thatch you take out, you realise it is well worth doing.”


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