Issue 40 - Dec / Jan 2012
Published 20th Dec 2011
Issue 41 -
Article Copy Deadline: 27th Jan 2012
Advert Copy Deadline: 31st Jan 2012
PDFs to Printers: 15th Feb 2012
Proof Signed Off: 17th Feb 2012
Database to Printers: 22nd Feb 2012
Mag posted Out: 27th Feb 2012
PDF Version Sent: 12th Mar 2012
You can have each and every copy of Pitchcare - The Magazine delivered direct to your door for just £30 a year (Overseas £50). Subscribe Now.
Contact Laurence Gale with your quality articles.
01902 440260
laurence@pitchcare.com
Contact Peter Britton to discuss the possibilities.
01747 855335
peter@pitchcare.com
Pages: 104
Moving Marston Forward
1 Jan 2008 -
Football -
Alan Lewis
- Issue 15 - Oct / Nov 2007 - 1 comment
In Spring 2006, Old Marston Parish Council, Oxfordshire, invited Total Turf Solutions Ltd (TTS) to provide a feasibility report on the draining of sports pitches on their recreation ground.
Time gentlemen please
30 Dec 2007 -
Bowls -
Tom James
- Issue 15 - Oct / Nov 2007
Lord Lucan nominated it as ‘a pub worthy of visiting’. Quite what tempted him out of hiding in 2005 to make this statement is not known!
The Richter Scale
26 Dec 2007 -
General News -
Dave Saltman
- Issue 15 - Oct / Nov 2007
They had stopped en route to relieve themselves and were surprised at how sandy and free draining the local soil was!
The Green Green Grass
17 Dec 2007 -
Football -
Ed Keane
- Issue 15 - Oct / Nov 2007
Cardiff based sports pitch design consultants GEO Turf Consulting Ltd take us through the role they played in the recent construction of the new training grounds for the Football Association of Wales
Bird’s nest SNOOP!
9 Dec 2007 -
General Sports -
Dr Tim Butler
- Issue 15 - Oct / Nov 2007
For the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympic Games there will be about thirty-seven venues in all, as well as 58 training sites with an estimated construction cost of $1.65 billion.
Ton up for Perth
8 Dec 2007 -
Racing -
Press Release
- Issue 15 - Oct / Nov 2007
A special race meeting was held at Perth racecourse at the end of September celebrating 100 years of horse-racing at Scone Palace Park.
When did you last check your roots?
7 Dec 2007 -
Consultancy -
Dr Kate Entwistle
- Issue 15 - Oct / Nov 2007 - 2 comments
I am always on the look-out for research or general articles and text books that can help with my work or my understanding of turfgrass diseases and, to this end, I recently bought a book entitled Plant Roots.
Second generation reinforced natural turf ... it’s fibrelastic
28 Nov 2007 -
Football -
Press Release
- Issue 15 - Oct / Nov 2007
Three main types of fibre reinforcement were developed during the 1990s.
1. Loose, multidirectional polypropylene fibres as in Fibreturf
2. ‘Stitched’ fibres as in DESSO Grassmaster
3. X-tra Grass preformed carpet
Mr. Bowls
24 Nov 2007 -
Bowls -
Gary Allen
- Issue 15 - Oct / Nov 2007
Garry Allen, is a Contract Greenkeeper for Bowls clubs in and around Portsmouth
Environmental enhancement made simple
23 Nov 2007 -
Consultancy -
Mary Purcell
- Issue 15 - Oct / Nov 2007
We all know that we need to play a role in protecting our environment. Course Managers are inundated with numerous suggestions to help protect the environment and eco-friendly products and practices with which to do this.
Clontarf - the home of Irish cricket
21 Nov 2007 -
Cricket -
Laurence Gale MSc
- Issue 15 - Oct / Nov 2007 - 1 comment
First impressions count for a lot. There is nothing better than to see a well presented sports venue that looks smart, sharp and tidy. One such venue I visited this summer was Clontarf Cricket Club.
In the footsteps of Giants
18 Nov 2007 -
Golf -
John Reynolds
- Issue 15 - Oct / Nov 2007
It is a late September morning as I cross the car park towards the main reception at the Belfry. I have an important appointment to keep with a very busy man indeed, and I am aware of how lucky I am to get it!
To the Manor born
17 Nov 2007 -
Cricket -
Stephen Morris
- Issue 15 - Oct / Nov 2007 - 1 comment
Being a volunteer Groundsman at the ‘prettiest’ club in Shropshire has its rewards reckons Stephen Morris
Your turfgrass is weak old man!
16 Nov 2007 -
Consultancy -
Colin Mumford
- Issue 15 - Oct / Nov 2007 - 2 comments
Okay, before I start, a question, and be honest with your answer. How many of you have had a sudden outbreak of disease ?
Defining quality
15 Nov 2007 -
Cricket -
Laurence Gale MSc
- Issue 15 - Oct / Nov 2007
If there is one rule of thumb I have learned from working with natural turf it is that we can only ever improve the performance of our playing surfaces if we know what we are dealing with.
Keeping polo in a mint condition
11 Nov 2007 -
Equestrian -
Laurence Gale MSc
- Issue 15 - Oct / Nov 2007
Former Greenkeeper, Mark Neale, has his work cut out maintaining over 50 hectares of grass at Beaufort Polo Club with just a staff of three. LAURENCE GALE MSc reports
What’s in a name and – and does it matter?
8 Nov 2007 -
Golf -
Kevin Munt
- Issue 15 - Oct / Nov 2007
In 1981 I was having a few pints with an opponent after a game of rugby and he asked me what I did for a living. I said that I was a Greenkeeper. “Oh, one of those guys who cuts grass on a golf course” he retorted.
