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For the tournament, when


we have more staff, we will use the Toro hand mowers, which we purchased from Wimbledon when they went to the battery powered Inf inicut mowers


Indoor complete


fescue just helps fi ll it in and there’s always been a mixture of the two in the past, and it works well.”


The STRI advise Richard on his fertiliser programme and recommendations for the grass courts. “I try and stick to what rates and inputs they give me. I trust our sales representative Paul Emmanuel to off er me the right advice as he was once a groundsman. It is also a matter of working around the weather when it rains, or we get a fl ood; the nutrients just fl y through the profi le. A long time ago, we used to use a lot of liquid sprays, but we have gone more towards granular feeds with a liquid spray only in spring and summer. This seems to last longer and give us better results, especially with slow-release technology available to us all now.”


With the national lockdown due to end on the 2nd December, Richard and the rest of the club’s staff were getting ready to re-open. I asked him how the pandemic had aff ected him and if he had been able to get on with the job. “I have not been furloughed at any stage, but Will was from the fi rst lockdown in March to when he came back in August. Apparently, he was more worried about me as, if he caught it and passed it on to me, it would have killed me. He obviously


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