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Low Maintenance Areas
Widespread economic constraints have necessarily led to changes in attitude with respect to the management and maintenance of amenity grassland. Traditionally established practices have been brought into question, especially in the areas of ecology and conservation.
Verges, Public Open Spaces and Solar Parks
Landscaping for areas such as housing areas or solar parks requires particular specifications to fit in with the surrounding environment.
Dealing With Impoverished or Contaminated Soils
Reclamation of derelict land: As a once-proud industrial nation, Britain has historically exploited its natural resources for energy, minerals and manufacturing materials and has inevitably created many thousands of hectares of industrial wasteland and redundant brownfield sites such London’s ...
Grass seed for golf greens
The sheer volume of foot traffic causes many problems with maintenance, particularly on older golf courses that were never built to withstand such continuous heavy use.
Tees and fairways
Golf Tees: Tees should always be designed so they can be maintained easily with reasonably sized equipment. Keeping a tee in good condition requires constant remedial work which can result in excessive wear. Therefore, the larger the tee, the less the effect of wear will be.
Golf course grass nutrition
Fertilisers: Grasses should be fed during the growing season to encourage natural growth but not to force or stimulate unnecessary growth especially early in the year.
The Hockey Pitch
While synthetic pitches have gained a stronghold in the sport of hockey, at club level, many hockey pitches are part of a multipurpose turf area and a high-quality management is required for an optimum playing surface.
New ‘Twin’ Fertilisers deliver consistent N for up to 16 weeks
An all–new range of advanced granular fertilisers, which uses two slow release sources of nitrogen to provide a phased–release over a 16–week period from one application, has been launched by COMPO EXPERT.
Wet and warm winter weather disease warning for turf professionals
With this year’s wet and warm winter weather creating the perfect conditions for turf diseases such as fusarium, snow mould and anthracnose to thrive, maintaining healthy rhizosphere conditions is the first step in preventing infections from detracting from turf performance and appearance.
Free fertiliser efficiency appraisals from Germinal at BTME 2017
Grass seed and turf care specialists, Germinal, will be challenging greenkeepers to scrutinise the nitrogen efficiency of their existing sward nutrient programmes with a free fertiliser appraisal at the BTME show in Harrogate from 17th to 19th January 2017. The company will also be showcasing ...