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Pesticides – Part 2

In his last article, Maxwell Amenity Technical Manager John Handley stated that the case in favour of chemical pesticides is that they have worked in the...

in Chemicals & Fertilisers - on 3/5/19

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A brief history ...

In part one of a two part article, Maxwell Amenity Technical Manager John Handley provides a brief history and analysis of the current situation surrounding...

in Chemicals & Fertilisers - on 22/3/19

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Pheasants heritage

Old age provides few consolations, but that my loyal Labrador cross Collie, Sidbury, is becoming increasingly deaf has made one aspect of our winter walks...

in Conservation & Ecology - on 21/1/19

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Technical collaboration

The amenity market is increasingly facing legislative challenges to historical turf management practices leaving end users seeking reputable and tested...

in Training & Education - on 29/11/18

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The best thing to happen!

Maxwell Amenity Technical Manager John Handley discusses the loss of iprodione and how he considers it to be one of the best things that could have happened...

in Editorial - on 2/3/18

Lebanon Landscape

Efficient use of nitrogen

Nitrogen is quantitatively the most important mineral nutrient required by turfgrasses; as a structural and functional component of the 20 protein amino...

in Chemicals & Fertilisers - on 10/3/17

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Askernish Golf Club

Maxwell Amenity’s Technical Manager, John Handley, heads to one of the remotest courses in Scotland for a spot of species analysis. Here he met up with...

in Golf - on 4/1/17

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Waterloo Bowls update

Satisfyingly, the green looks appreciably hungry, Red Thread, caused by the fungus Laetisaria fuciformis, is running through the green indicating that...

in Bowls - on 13/9/16

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The Munch Bunch!

In this article, John Handley, Technical Manager for Maxwell Amenity, explains how the loss of chemical controls for chafer grubs and leatherjackets will...

in Industry News - on 1/7/16

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Waterloo Bowls update

Waterloo Bowling Club-Green Inspection 22nd June with Mark Audin and Gordon Butcher.

in Bowls - on 24/6/16

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Tormentor or tormented?

Maxwell Amenity’s Technical Manager, John Handley, looks at the UK’s growing grey squirrel population and asks whether it is ever going to be possible...

in Conservation & Ecology - on 14/4/16

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Waterloo Bowls Inspection

Growing conditions have been kind to the perennial species of browntop bent and red fescue. The green has dried out considerably from the visit in January...

in The Waterloo Bowling Green - on 4/4/16

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Waterloo Bowling Club

Pitchcare are delighted to announce their sponsorship of the Waterloo Bowling Club. We have been working with the club for several years and have seen...

in Bowls - on 7/2/16

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Beware of death by flower

Monkshood, also known as Wolfsbane, is an attractive plant that is commonly grown by gardeners. It attracted public attention at the end of last year when...

in Industry News - on 1/11/15

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Managing our turf

With the arsenal of pesticides seriously diminished in recent years, just what is still available and what, if you have it in your store, will it actually...

in Industry News - on 3/6/15

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Equine Atypical Myopathy

Equine Atypical Myopathy, EAM, is also known as “Sycamore poisoning” in horses. EAM is a potentially fatal disease of horses caused by the horse eating...

in Pests & Diseases - on 2/5/15

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A wildflower area

John Handley, Maxwell Amenity’s Technical Manager, details the history of wildflower areas, their importance in the scheme of things and offers some...

in Consultancy - on 4/4/15

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A grass for all seasons

Common Bent (Agrostis capillaris), once known as Brown Top Bent (A. tenuis), is to be found in many commercial grass and wild flower seed mixtures.

in Turf & Grass Seed - on 9/11/14

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Bowls at Waterloo

I was privileged to be invited to attend the British Crown Green Bowling Association All England’s Men’s Championship hosted at the Waterloo Bowling...

in Bowls - on 3/10/14

Pitchcare & the RSPB Golf Conservation Event

RSPB GC Conservation Day

Pitchcare, in conjunction with the RSPB are organising a conservation event to be held at Enville Golf Club on the 18th September 2014.

in Golf - on 10/9/14


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