The transition from ryegrass to Bermuda grass can be difficult! In the spring of 2015 Benjamin Lovett, course superintendent at the Montgomerie Maxx Royal Golf club, decided it was necessary to make the switch. His reasoning was based upon the courses natural assets and in order to facilitate the change, the Koro Recycling Dresser was [...]
Aeration is a major part of every ground maintenance programme across every type of turf based sport. That’s why Tines Direct only uses the highest quality steel when manufacturing replacement tines and ensuring they are hardened to OEM specifications. Our tines are compatible with all major suppliers of aeration equipment with bespoke options available to [...]
AFC Telford United are part of what has become a familiar story in football with only their supporters trust standing between them and extinction in 2004 when the current club was formed from Telford United. Whilst off the pitch problems had been solved over the past 12 years the more recent issue of Poa annua [...]
Ronnie Miles is the Head Greenkeeper at Buchanan Castle Golf Course, Glasgow, Scotland. He has been using the Imants SandCat over an extended period of three years and recently bought his own machine. “Our main objective at the golf club is to keep the greens playable for 12 months of the year and seven years [...]
Campey Turf Care Systems has welcomed another dealer to the group by appointing CLS Selfdrive, a division of Cleveland Land Services as a dedicated dealership. CLS, who is based in Cleveland, will be covering north, east and west Yorkshire, providing the entire range of Campey equipment, including the Imants, Dakota, and Campey range of products [...]
The ninth date of the UK & Ireland Pitch Renovation Tour took place at the home of the Lancashire Football Association in Leyland on Thursday 12th May, with a wide variety of grassroots and professional groundsmen coming to the event Over 80 groundsmen from rugby and football, club officials, contractors and council representatives came to [...]
It has been a pleasure to travel up and down the country over the past few weeks, meeting a whole range of turf professionals and volunteers alike. From Fawley and Wokingham on the 19th and 21st of April, to Knutsford, Long Eaton, and Leyland on the 4th, 10th and 12th of May respectively. The opportunity [...]
The UK & Ireland Grassroots Pitch Renovation Tour - a series of full pitch renovations aimed at improving the quality of Grassroots natural turf sports pitches across the UK and Ireland is underway. Four venues Cambourne Sports Club, Cambridge, Maidstone South Park courtesy of Maidstone Borough Council, Fawley Parish Council, Hampshire and Cantely Park of [...]
Bigga Seminar 2016 – Aeration, Seeding and Decompaction Presented by Ian ‘Poggy’ Pogson, Product Specialist, Campey Turf Care Systems The more things change the more things stay the same. Are we doing the same things as we always did? Of course nothing is new; we just have variations on a theme, more efficient maybe, but [...]
