Bowling green renovations
Autumn is a season of great importance for the bowling club greenkeeper. The regular playing fixtures come to an end, so thoughts can now turn to renovations...
in Bowls - on 5/9/16
Autumn is a season of great importance for the bowling club greenkeeper. The regular playing fixtures come to an end, so thoughts can now turn to renovations...
in Bowls - on 5/9/16
David H. Bates Agronomy Services looks at the end of season work and through to Spring.
in Bowls - on 12/12/09
Steve Rouse’s preparations for the third Ashes Test at Edgbaston were plagued by bad weather, resulting in delayed starts, abandoned play, sleepless...
in Cricket - on 19/9/09
Nearly seventy years on WWII landing sites can still be seen from miles above our planet as re-growth has not occurred due to the ammonia, the basis of...
in Consultancy - on 10/9/09
During the course of bowling green advisory work, one of the most common problems is that of slow and heavy bowling surfaces. Unfortunately, many bowlers...
in Bowls - on 3/9/09
Groundsmen and Greenkeepers are often left scratching their heads as to what can be used to control moss, algae and worms. Although fungicides are numerous...
in Consultancy - on 18/5/09
Altrincham FC’s Moss Lane playing surface has improved so much over recent years that, following a pre-season friendly, Manchester United reckoned it...
in Football - on 17/4/09
The onset of the bowls playing season usually begins in March when favourable weather, soil and air temperatures begin rising above 10 degrees C, thus...
in Bowls - on 15/3/09
Technically speaking, humates are the salts of humic acids. These are found in humus which is formed by the decomposition of vegetable and animal matter....
in Best of the Rest - on 3/3/09
2008 will be remembered for accidental and malicious damage to golf courses throughout the UK.
in Golf - on 5/2/09
Over many years in the amenity sector, David H. Bates has come up close to the commonest problems associated with bowling greens - the generally accepted...
in Bowls - on 8/1/09
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What are growth regulators? Why do we use them? Why should we use them? How can we achieve the results other than by chemical inputs?
in Consultancy - on 14/12/08