EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS


Sand banding on the cricket squares


We are going to purchase the tractors at the end of the lease, as they last forever if they are looked after


What’s in the shed


John Deere 7700A Toro Reelmaster 3100-D Sidewinder


Toro Groundsmaster 3280-D Toro Workman ME2065 x 2 Dennis G660 Dennis FT510 SISIS Quadraplay SISIS SP6 Twinplay SISIS multitiner STIHL HS86T brushcutter STIHL HL100 long reach brushcutter STIHL MS250 chainsaw STIHL HT101 pole pruner STIHL FS90R strimmer STIHL FS130 strimmer STIHL BR600 Backpack Blower


Ransomes Spider mini slope mower


Amazone GHLT135 Billy goat Team Sprayer 300L Fleet Beamrider


Vitax pedestrian sprayer TFM trailer


92 PC October/November 2020


Moving forward, Michael is hopeful the second-tier drainage work will commence this year as planned and they will be able to fi nish off the sand banding on the cricket squares, which was started last year. “The sand banding will be installed diagonally to the primary drainage that was put in. I also hope to get Jon Lawson in from Sports and Courts Line Marking Limited, to colour coat the tennis courts and rejuvenate the all- weather sand-based pitch.”


Michael believes the sports turf industry has moved on in a big way since he fi rst started his career - mainly with advances in technology, machinery and products available, but he’s worried about the long- term eff ects of Covid on the industry. “For us, it has meant budgets have been reduced and some staff remain furloughed. I have had to retain some of the fertiliser in stock for


later in the year and, basically, I have to stop spending in the short term. Hopefully, with pupils returning to school and things getting back to normal, this should improve.” As our site is only twelve years old, we are trying to introduce colour by creating multiple wildfl ower areas. We are using Cornfl ower Meadows which contains corn cockle, corn chamomile, cornfl ower corn, marigold fi eld poppy, scented mayweed night, fl owering catch fl y, common forget me not and long headed poppy. We’ve also planted over six thousand bulbs in the past two years including Tulip- City of Vancouver, Pink Impression, Golden Apeldoorn, Parrot Negrita, Dafodils- Narcissus Tete a Tete, Fritillaria Meleagris, Anemone Blanda, Puschkinia Libanotica, Alliums Globemaster, Gladiator and White Giant.


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