80 tonnes spread, 430 to go..............

80 tonnes was spread today in house by Nige. 430 tonnes left to go down in the next 7 days, 30 of which is 70/30 root zone for goal areas and line mans areas. All bar 1 pitch will change location for next season, so all pitches will have spot on goal areas etc. Once top dressing is spread, we then have 20 x 25kg bags of Johnson's Prem seed to drill into areas of less than 90% coverage, which isn't much, then 140 bags of fertilizer once seed germinates and starts showing. July we have another 60 tonnes of top dressing to go onto the main pitch, but all will be worked in with vertidraining, quadraplaying and drag matting, all going to plan do far! Just hope Mother Nature stays on our side!! All the best to all in this manic renovation period!

Let the renovations begin!

First delivery of many, 480 tonnes of Leighton Buzzard top dressing and 30 tonnes of 70/30 root zone to get down in 2 weeks starting Monday. All completed in house with 2 grounds staff. May the fun begin!! 

The season end is Nigh

It's been a long hard season with over 2850 matches and training sessions at the site, not including tournaments, fun weeks or FA courses. The facility, pitches, have coped extremely well, but only down to passionate committed grounds staff but also from the understanding supportive volunteers who use us, I cannot emphasis enough how the relationship between the two groups is, thank you ALL.

Busy busy week!

Busy week, Wiltshire County School finals tomorrow, 9 matches, and the a further 25+ to fit in before and over the weekend. Nigel is back so the serious work can start, and new groundsman starting tomorrow so looking great! 

Sneaky cut as no match today on pitch, weather is stunning today!