This section collects together the information concerned with Surbiton's seven lawns.
Lawn News
George Noble writes: Our autumn lawn renovation work began later than hoped because Scottie, our contractor, had been held up by bad weather affecting his other jobs. He started on Thursday, 21 October and made quick work of hollow tining the seven croquet lawns and the (bowls) lawn eight. However, the hollow tining cores proved to be rather wet and consequently difficult to breakdown so the planned immediate seeding could not take place. We then had 14mm of rain which converted the cores to an unpleasant sludge which was almost impossible to shift but we did it over the weekend and seeding and top dressing took place on Monday and Tuesday. Our innovation this year was that we used a slit seeder which puts the seed out of the reach of birds and should improve germination. The lawns have also been fed and the worms suppressed. The irrigation system is on automatic. All being well, we will have a better quality of grass next season.
George Noble writes: The lawns were given their first spring/summer feed on 9 April, together with some worm cast treatment and a chemical to control a minor invasion of moss. The sarrel roller was used on lawns six and seven.
Irrigation in action - Photos - February 2010
More Irrigation Construction - Photos - February 2010
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