Headland Amenity Greentec 6:5:18 Fertiliser – Autumn Winter and Spring Starter
The modern maintenance techniques used to ensure professional sports pitches remain in a prime playing condition throughout a season cover a number of areas, which can include; mowing, renovation work such as deep tine aeration and scarifying, top dressing, weed and disease control and fertiliser application.
This article discusses the use of fertilisers and in particular the autumn / winter / spring starter fertiliser from Headland Amenity; Greentec 6:5:18 + MgO + 4Fe.
Blec Combinator – Sports Pitch Surface Removal
The Blec Combinator, developed by GKB Machines, is a turf care machine designed for fraize mowing or verti-cutting a sports turf surface. It is commonly used for sports pitch renovation on football and rugby pitches, cricket wickets and outfields and golf courses.
Blec Laser Grader – Laser Levelled Sports Pitch Construction
The Blec Laser Grader, developed by Blec Global Managing Director Gary Mumby, was first released for the sports turf industry in 1993. Due to its huge success the range has continually grown and today 6 models are available starting at a working width of 1.4m and moving up to 3m.
Sports Pitch Maintenance April Schedule
Welcome to our first, in a monthly series, of articles discussing sports pitch maintenance techniques; covering football pitches, golf courses, cricket pitches and bowling greens.
LDCA Spring Newsletter 2011
The Land Drainage Contractors Association, LDCA, are a national standard setting organisation who publishes guides and specifications on the installation of sports pitch drainage. As new members of the LDCA, Fineturf, undertake work to these specifications and guidelines and to the requirements of the LDCA Quality Assurance Scheme.
Wiedenmann Terra Spike Deep Tine Aeration
Wiedenmann UK established itself in the UK sports turf industry with the introduction of the Terra Spike. Fineturf currently own and operate four Terra Spikes, used for deep tine aeration on natural sports turf.
Deep tine aeration, or vertical draining, is the process of spiking a sports pitch, with solid or coring tines, up to a depth of approximately 400mm. The tines, which can range from 5mm-25mm in diameter, pierce the soil while the heave of the Terra Spike ensures the soil is shattered and decompacted during the process. Deep tine aeration relieves compaction in heavily played areas, improves surface drainage and promotes new root growth.
Limagrain Seed Conference 2011
January 2011 saw the return of the annual Limagrain UK amenity grass seed conference, this year held in Dublin. During the conference there were exciting announcements made about new mixtures for 2011. Limagrain are the largest plant breeder and seed development company in Europe. Their MM and Designer grass seed ranges have a proven track record in producing high quality swards and are used in many of this country’s and Europe’s top sporting venues.
Fineturf to Launch Monthly Newsletter
Fineturf are pleased to announce that we will be launching a monthly newsletter starting January 2011. Expect to find lots of useful information covering both Fineturf and the Sports Turf Industry.
We aim to provide updates, photos and videos on recent Fineturf projects, all of which will be available on our website. Sports pitch construction and maintenance advice and techniques as well as sports turf machinery information.
