Magazine - General Sports (Page 2)

Autumn opportunities
18 Sep 2011 - General Sports - Bill Riley BSc Hons - Issue 38 - Aug / Sept 2011
Bill Riley of Vitax offers some seasonal tips to prepare your turf for the onset of winter and to aid spring recovery

Exploring Beneath the Surface of Soil-based Sports Fields
13 Aug 2011 - General Sports - Dr Richard Gibbs
The purpose of this article is to illustrate how a simple assessment of basic soil and construction characteristics of a sports field can be used to 'capture' its condition and lead towards a better understanding and planning of overall sports field performance.

Summer Turf Tips
5 Aug 2011 - General Sports - Ian Campbell - Issue 37 - Jun / Jul 2011
Ian Campbell, Campey Turfcare Product Specialist, offers some timely tips for the summer.

Green and healthy from root to tip
6 Jul 2011 - General Sports - David Robinson - Issue 36 - Apr / May 2011
David Robinson, General Manager from Bathgate Group discusses the importance of achieving the perfect turf for any sports surface, and advises on the key considerations for specifying both rootzone and topdressing

Danger Zone - Drought could be this year's danger zone!
22 May 2011 - General Sports - Bill Riley BSc Hons
Bill Riley, BSc Hons. Dip Geoscience, Technical Manager for Vitax Amenity, steps into the ‘Danger Zone’ and says that plant nutrition involves much more than fertilisers, especially in drought conditions

Natural grass over synthetics
15 May 2011 - General Sports - Stephen Fell - Issue 36 - Apr / May 2011
Lindum Turf’s Stephen Fell argues the case for natural grass over synthetic surfaces, and says that the industry is making huge strides forward in developing new, more tolerant seed and turf

Turf Tip - Verbiage about herbage!
9 May 2011 - General Sports - Ian Pogson - Issue 36 - Apr / May 2011 - 3 comments
In his own inimitable style, Ian Pogson, Product Specialist for Campey Turf Care Systems, waffles on about poor pitches, hand forking, scarification, aeration, overseeding ...

The Drain Game
5 May 2011 - General Sports - David Green - Issue 35 - Feb / Mar 2011
To keep sports pitches and golf courses playable, good drainage is essential. Terrain Aeration’s David Green looks at how water works its way through the soil profile

Are You Ready To Tea-Off?
11 Apr 2011 - General Sports - David Ward - Issue 35 - Feb / Mar 2011
With the recent surge of interest in the use of compost teas in turf management, David Ward from Symbio addresses some of the more common questions posed by those looking at this cutting edge technology that is actually as old as the soil itself

Playing fields for the future?
13 Mar 2011 - General Sports - Carol Dutton - Issue 35 - Feb / Mar 2011
Is there a future for school playing fields after Building Schools for the Future? James Pugh-Lewis seems to think so, as Carol Dutton reports

White Lines - do do it!
4 Feb 2011 - General Sports - Colin Mumford - Issue 34 - Dec / Jan 2011
Dr Colin Mumford explains how a chance phone call led to a mad dash to paint the white lines on the games deck of Cunard’s new cruise liner, The Queen Elizabeth, once she had docked in Southampton on Friday, ahead of The Queen naming the vessel the following Monday!

Poisoned Chalice?
28 Jan 2011 - General Sports - Editor - Issue 34 - Dec / Jan 2011
The industry faces the prospect of more sports pitches being created on contaminated land as virgin sites are snapped up by developers as prime building land. So, what are the issues surrounding the use of brownfield sites, and where does the ultimate responsibility lie? Report by Jim Beatty

Lab analysis
18 Jan 2011 - General Sports - Dan Hughes - Issue 34 - Dec / Jan 2011 - 2 comments
There are many tools available in the sports turf industry to aid Greenkeepers, Groundsmen, Golf Course Architects and Agronomists in making the right choices for their course or pitch. Laboratory analysis is one of those key services where decisions can be based on hard facts rather than guesswork.

Why the grass is greener on the other side
15 Jan 2011 - General Sports - Dan Hughes - Issue 34 - Dec / Jan 2011
You probably won’t have heard of them. You may well have used their seed. You might likely recognise their cultivars from the BSPB/STRI Turfgrass Seed booklet. So, who are Euro Grass, and why should you be interested?