these Open Championship Clubs choose to relief grind - Pitchcare

St Mary’s surrounds looking tidy
maintain a healthy balanced sward.
Wetting agents are applied to help keep
the pitch functioning and allowing
deeper, consistent penetration of feeds
and water. A preventative fungicide
programme is used to combat leafspot
and fusarium.
Andy also oversees all the work at the
training ground, some eight miles away.
This provides three full size pitches, one
three quarter size pitch, two mini pitches
and goalkeeping areas, plus a 60 metre x
40 metre indoor 3G artificial. All of the
pitches at the training ground are soil
based with primary drainage systems at 5
metre centres.
End of season renovations are
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The Ultimate Winter
Sports Mixture
THE ULTIMATE GRASS SEED
MIXTURE FOR WINTER SPORTS
• Headstart ® treated for fast germination and establishment
• Produces a dense hard wearing playing surface
• Excellent winter colour and high disease resistance
relatively straightforward. All the pitches
are either scarified, using an Amazone
flail, or fraise mown to clean out debris,
then vertidrained and topdressed with
450 tonnes of sand, before overseeding
with a ryegrass seed mixture.
Andy is doing a fantastic job. Like so
many of his peers, he is dedicated to
producing the best playing surface for
his club using the resources he has
available. He has a good
team and, between them,
they are confident the
playing surface they
produce is equal, if not
better, than any on the
south coast
All MM mixtures are
Headstart ® treated
Winter Sports
St Mary’s bowl style stadium suffers the usual shade problems -
Dave Roberts’ goalmouth lighting system can be seen in use
“Like so many of
his peers, Andy is
dedicated to
producing the best
playing surface for
his club using the
resources he has
available”
Rothwell, Market Rasen,
Lincolnshire LN7 6DT
Tel: 01472 371471
amenity@limagrain.co.uk
www.limagrain.co.uk/mm
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