7th Dec
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All crooked paving slabs have been lifted and 3 tonne of sand delivered (to be shifted from the car park!). The sand will be used to lay the relaid slabs on. The green is looking in good condition for mid December.
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30th Nov
Green has been mown (height 12mm) and is looking much improved. Have given up on looking for Dave's pound coin and have now filled in the trench. It looks as if the hard graft has been worth the effort as the new grass shoots are looking good. The bare patches are disappearing quick. A date has been fixed for the "last of the summer wine" crew Xmas get together on 15th December. .
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19th Oct to 23rd Nov
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19th An industrious day! Work starts on removing roots and stripping out old kitchen units, As well as replacing doors in the changing room block
26th Work continues on root culling. The soil is as hard as concrete - A mini Kango was bought into use. Spinach needed to increase muscle power for next week! 16th Still can not find Dave's £1 coin, but roots are being chopped (in the 5th week!) and the "sand bowl" seems to be disappearing. Toilet block doors are all most finished. 23rd Nov Have now given up on finding Dave's savings, but are confident that most of the roots have been halted from invading the green. Door hanging in the toilet block are almost complete thanks to master builders Phil & Howard. The sand bowl is slowly being replaced by young shoots of grass. |
13th Oct
10:30am Green with morning dew before work started.
11:15am Graden machine (similar to scarifying - but deeper).This operation was done twice as surface was described as "very crusty". This process helps new seeds to bed better. 14:00pm After graden process we know own a ploughed field! 15:15pm Cleaning the green (11 hoppers of dead grass roots etc) 16:15pm 1st and 2nd pass with 20Kg of seeds in 1200 holes per square metre. 3rd pass with 2 tonne of top dressing. Total of 3600 holes per square metre ! 16:40pm News on the "sand bowl". Despite many efforts to encourage grass to grow in one of the corners nothing has been successful as yet. It seems that 12mm beneath the surface there are oak tree feeder roots. These roots will fight any other vegetation for any nutrients and water to supply the tree. A bit of advice we have been given is remove a row or two of the slabs and dig a trench (at least 1.5m deep) - to chop into the tap roots. This will kill the feeder roots and allow the grass to germinate. The writer guesses that this is no small task and will require a fair bit of muscle and time - unless anybody knows a friendly person with a mini digger! |
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12th Oct
5th Oct
Phil & Rob are creosoting recently erected fence, and could show the full time painters that are employed on the Forth bridge, a thing or two!
The green has been mowed and weather permitting will be in good nick for Saturday Club championship, which will be the last competion on the green for around a couple of weeks, as it is planned to start the winter preperation on Sunday or maybe Wednesday. |