Dean Broughton Turfcare "In Season" Pencil/Needle Tining

Graden "Deep" Scarifying Three Spires Bowls Club Coventry

Thatchaway Verticutting at Caldecott Park Bowls Club in Warwickshire

Sisis Pedestrian Topdresser For Hire ideal for Cricket and Bowls Clubs

Sisis 36” Truspred Topdresser For Hire

 

This machine will hold 3 x 25kg bags of Top Dressing / Cricket Loam

 

Ideal if you are doing your own renovations on:

 

·         Cricket Squares

·         Bowling Greens

·         Tennis Courts

·         Croquet Lawns

·         Large Lawns

 

Forget handballing 25kg bags all over your area , bending to split them , all that hand raking, and then all that luting and drag matting to achieve a level , never mind all the man hours and backache.

 

This great little machine will meter out your materiel and give you a uniform spread, plus do the job in a fraction of the time, just the job if you are on a tight budget.

 

We also operate Turfco Metermatic engine driven Topdressers with a 1/3^rd of a ton capacity, again ideal for Cricket & Bowls Green Renovations

 

More notice the better for end of season bookings, we already have clubs booking dates for this years renovations.

 

We carry out commercially and domestically:

• Hollow Tining
• Micro/Needle Tining
• Slit Tining
• Verticutting
• Linear Aeration / Deep Scarification / Sand Injection
• Top Dressing
• Moss Control
• Fertiliser Application
• Fungicide Application
• Worm Control
• Weed Control

 

We have been looking after some of the Midlands most prestigious Cricket and Bowls Clubs since 1986

 

Call us today and allow us to help you improve the health of your Turf!

Mobile: 07901 724201 Home: 01664 840055

Email: deanbroughton@gmail.com 

 

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Verticutting Bowling Green with Thatchaway 24" Walk Behind Verticutter

Bowls Green Verticut at 2mm below the 4mm Height of Mowing Cut in two directions using the ThatchAway 24" Walk Behind Verticutter

Does an absolute fantastic job , very clean , no debris left behind due to the 1mm Tungsten Tipped fan force blades , spaced at 10mm apart

When i turned up , one of the members commented " Oh, we forgot you was coming today , we just mowed the green , you wont get anything off it today"......well...here are the results.....

Just look at the " Latereral Grasses" in the box ,some of them up to an 1" long, these are the side shoots of the plant which never get caught by your cylinder mower, which die off and contribute to your thatch layer as well as leaving a bobbly mat on the surface

Cleaning out these laterals will help smooth the surface , and in time should give you a uniform playing surface as well as increasing green speed without having to sacrifice height of cut.

 

 

Just some of the Laterals..............

 

 



 

 

More and more of our Bowls Clubs are seeing the benefits of regular monthly Verticutting and there is no disruption to the playing surface


 

Finished .....note: clean as a whistle

 

Dean Broughton Turfcare

Helping to Lower Maintenance Costs and Improving Performance of Bowling Greens in Leicestershire and across the Midlands

 

Call now for More Info ?

Home: (01664) 840055   Mobile: 07901 724201

email: deanbroughton@gmail.com

Verticutting

Verticutting is the removal of grass growth which is horizontal, along with stolons and debris to produce a clean, fresh, well ventilated surface as the ideal environment for healthy growth. The soil surface will not be touched during this action

The "finer" species you have will be of a creeping growth habit ie stolons, rhizomes etc so some kind of "cleaning out" programme is required as they are excessive thatch producers

Never Cut Below 5mm on your green or you will start to loose the food stored in the plant and it will die and not re produce.

• Grass species.
  - Creeping bent can be a big thatch producer and requires regular coring or top-dressing to dilute the thatch.
  - Fescues produce thatch which has a high lignin content that takes longer to break down naturally.
• Nutrition.
  - Excessive N can produce a grass factory. Thatch is therefore produced faster than it can break down naturally.

Thatchaway 24" Walk Behind Verticutter available now For Hire

The Thatch Away 24" Walk Behind Verticutter is designed to give you the highest performance available in any pedestrian Verticutter is now available at Dean Broughton Turfcare

It incorporate the revolutionary, patent pending, Fan-Force tungsten tipped blades which cut far cleaner that ordinary blades due to their Tungsten tips which resist wear.

605 Tungsten Tips at 10mm spacing’s working across the 24” width for fast effective thatch removal.

The special fan fins create a powerful air stream which sucks the thatch up off the surface and blasts it into the grassbox. Now you don't need to go over the surface a second time with a sweeper to remove the debris that other verticutters leave behind.

This is the most effective Pedestrian Verticutter on the market.

Verticutting or Vertical Mowing works above ground level rather than below the surface as with Scarifying, regular monthly use through the playing season can deliver many benefits to your Turfgrass:

·         Cleans out dying leaf matter and removes excess turf growth

·         Provides channels for water infiltration

·         Opens turf canopy so sunlight and nutrients can settle in to soil

·         Promotes healthy new growth

·         Prepares seedbed for overseeding

·         Prunes lateral grass aiding turf density

·         Produces an upright grass prior to mowing to give a cleaner more consistent cut

·         Increases air movement around the base of the plant

·         Gives an increase to green speed

·         It helps in the preparation of firm, fast, smooth and true surfaces on which to play

·         Annual Meadow Grass is a quick growing weed that does not naturally create a good playing surface without intensive Verticutting

• Encourages grass to stand up straighter, promoting a smooth ball roll

For a “No Obligation” site visit and Green assessment, call us today and allow us to improve the health and performance of your Green.

We have been lowering maintenance costs and improving the performance of Bowling Greens in Leicestershire and across the Midlands since 1986

Call us today on Mobile: 07901 724201 Home: 01664 840055 Email: deanbroughton@gmail.com