Manuring

The application and incorporation of plant nutrients to a soil before grass seeds are sown onto a prepared area. A typical, traditional (early to mid 1900s) application rate would be 1 cubic yard per 100 square yards, being lightly forked and worked into the soil being prepared as a seed bed. "A method sometimes adopted is to prepare a compost consisting of one part of manure to three or four parts of screened top soil. An inch or two of this compost spread over the surface makes an excellent seed-bed". (Source: Sutton, M.A.F. (Ed) 1950, "Golf Courses. Design, Construction and Upkeep", Sutton & Sons, pp47-48). Where an adequate supply of well rotten manure was unavailable then plant nutrients would be supplied by the use of artificial fertilisers.