Renovations well underway

Love this time of year. 350 tonnes of silica 0.2 top dressing down, and brushed into vertical draining holes from last week, sand banding being completed for rest of week to get clean contact to primary drainage on much needed areas, disc seeding started this week also with 40 bags of DLF johnsons prem seed going into worn areas, have good coverage on most pitches. Rain forecasted late Friday and Sunday heavy so fingers crossed that comes, would do lovely, need natures help :-) 

Been a while.......

Apologies, it has been while. Since the new year we have been so busy, pitches have held up very well. Lacrosse killed pitches a little in October so need to manage that better, but lessons learnt. Over 3200 training sessions and matches, with highs and lows, and only a few cancellations. Renovations are now well under way. 350 tonnes of top dressing, 30 tonnes of root zone already down, next week drill seeding, and then sand banding the week after, hence the slight reduction in top dressing from last year by 130 tonnes. STRI review went well with some pitches hitting 95-100% coverage at the end of the season, so seed ordered is at 40 bags. Fertiliser pro turf will be spread in mid June and we go from there. Troops have done very well under extreme pressure sometimes, and still produced fantastic pitches for grassroots football.