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For the rapid establishment of fine grasses when overseeding. Our MYCORRHIZAL SEED COATING contains spores of beneficial mycorrhizal fungi, growth promoting bacteria and fungi and organic soil nutrients, to improve grass root growth, stress recovery and rapid establishment of newly seeded or turfed areas. MYCORRHIZAE are essential for grass health, attaching to the roots, …
Liquid Endo Mycorrhizal Inoculant contains a minimum of 1,100,000 Endo-mycorrhizal Propagules per litre. It promotes rapid root and shot growth for fine perennial grasses without encouraging Poa annua.
MYCORRHIZAL GRASS can grow up to twice as fast as grass without the benefit of mycorrhizal association.
Mycorrhizal fungi form a symbiotic relationship with the grass root. All perennial grasses naturally associate with mycorrhizal fungi.
Research shows that mycorrhizal grass may
Grow twice as fast as grass in a sterile rootzone
Use up to 30% less water
Use up to 50% less fertiliser
Today is World Soil Day (WSD). A campaign that aims to connect people with soils and raise awareness on their critical importance in our lives.
To mark the occasion The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations has produced a wonderful series of Postcards that highlight the main threats to world soil health. In the UK we don’t do particularly well with many of them.
Liquid Aeration for Bowling Greens is revolutionary product that provides oxygen for healthy soil, microbe and plant growth in water-saturated, compacted and anaerobic root zones. MODE OF ACTION All healthy plant growth and microbial soil activity requires oxygen, which is usually supplied by air moving into the soil. SPORTS TURF ROOTZONES are …
Bowls green performance and organic matter go hand in hand. In this article we continue to test our hypothesis about the effect Organic Matter has to bowls green surface performance. John compares the different kinds of organic matter in greens and shows how we can measure these to direct us to a better maintenance regime that focusses on performance and produces healthier greens and greens that are more economical to maintain.
Its time again for clubs to be thinking about the end of season maintenance program and many of these programs will follow “tradition” and will include the application of several tonnes of high sand content top-dressing. However, one of the most prevalent problems on bowling greens in the UK is that of Localised Dry Patch …
In response to my request for readers to share their ideas and experiences, Bowls-Central regular Syd Kennerley sent me a photo of his green aerator a few weeks ago. This is a machine that Syd designed and built himself and it seems to be a very effective addition to his machinery shed. Syd kindly agreed …
