Tag: Green maintenance
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Winter Green Maintenance Begins
Winter maintenance on the green started this week. It has been verticut, cut, tined, top soiled and seeded where appropriate, and finally lime has been applied to all the green. The next job will be to apply the winter fertiliser. It will then be slit every month and cut when needed. The Green Team.
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Progress with Green Edging
Today, the edging was completed on one side of the green, with only the gutter membrane and pea gravel still to be replaced. Materials have been ordered in order to do the same on another side. Thanks go to Graham Moon, John Medcalf, Gail and Paul Cafferkey, and Dave Thompson. Special thanks also to Gill…
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Green Maintenance and Closure
As many of you will know, the green has been receiving some TLC by the greens team after the end of the Summer season. As part of this work, a soil report was ordered, and after receiving the results of this today, the team have realised they need to do a lot more work on…
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Another Green Makeover Done!
The green team started at 7am today, to give the green yet another mini-overhaul. This time, the green was verticut, pencil tined and mowed in both directions by John, Graham, Paul, Brian and Gail. The process removes any blades of grass growing sideways instead of upwards, and makes the green even more of a pleasure…
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Green Receives A Spanking New Makeover
Today saw the green receive the full treatment. John, Graham, Paul and Gail spent six hours from 7:30 Saturday morning giving the green its long awaited overhaul, which has been delayed for a number of weeks by rain. The green was solid tined, verticut, mowed both ways, edges strimmed, lightly seeded, treated with a feed…
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Full Day of Green Maintenance Complete
Today saw a full day’s work carried out on the green by our very own volunteer grounds people. The green was scarified both ways, cut both ways, solid tined and fertiliser put on. Hopefully green will now improve after all this wet weather and we can all get back to enjoying more time at the…
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Green Maintenance Work is Paying Off
Work on the green intensified this week in the better Spring weather. The green was already looking great after its Winter aeration, but this week the green was scarified and over seeded. Also, the patches that needed the most attention had further intensive work done on them, and are now sheeted to speed up seed…
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Winter Green Maintenance Continues
Winter green maintenance continues, with the team seeding and adding two tons of top dressing to the green.
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Winter Green Maintenance Underway
This week the grounds team began the Winter maintenance process on the Hoole green. They started by scarifying the surface to remove dead grass, or thatch as it is known – this would otherwise hinder growth of the green if left in place. Slits were also placed a few inches down into the green to…