Bowling Green FAQ 19: Fertiliser causing skin irritation. 
The fertiliser which has been applied is irritating some of our bowlers’ hands. What can we do?
This can occasionally occur when a fertiliser has been applied to a green and hasn’t yet been adequately washed into the surface.
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Bowling Green FAQ 2: Why are there are thin and bare area where members start their game?
The access points to the green will see these succumb to increased compaction, as well as the areas where most players gather for delivering a bowl.
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Bowling Green FAQ 20: How often should we water our green?
This will depend on numerous factors, not least how much rainfall (and the frequency of it) falls to counter loss of water used by the grass plant.
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Bowling Green FAQ 3: Patches on green
We had a significant number of small yellow patches and spots which have now enlarged into irregular bigger patches.
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Bowling Green FAQ 4: Why is our aerator leaving marks from its wheels?
The weight of an aerator is being borne by the tyres. Smaller diameter wheels with narrower tyres will have significantly increased ground pressure than a larger diameter wheel with broad tyres.
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Bowling Green FAQ 5: Why are the bowls ‘bobbling’ in their travel in certain areas of the green?
There will most likely be some degree of unevenness present on the immediate surface. It might not be especially visible to the naked eye, but there could be some minor depression which could affect the roll and draw of a bowl.
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Bowling Green FAQ 6: Why are we getting lots of divots at the ends of the green?
There are a number of possible reasons for this, but the main underlying contributory factor is usually that of a soft surface which cannot withstand much wear, especially in moist to wet conditions.
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Bowling Green FAQ 7: How often should we move rinks?
This does depend on the amount of use, type of use (in particular quality of delivery from players and number of divots) and ground conditions, whether it is dry or wet, the density of the sward, etc. as this will all influence how often rinks should be moved.
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Bowling Green FAQ 8: Why is the green fairly slow?
This might be the commonest question asked by bowlers. This does depend on what is meant by slow as this can be quite subjective.
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Bowling Green FAQ 9: Why has a lot of the grass which surrounds hollow holes turned a straw brown colour?
The hollow-tining was carried out in October and it is now March.
This is most likely due to the hollow-tine holes not being filled in fully, leaving a slight depression at the top which has exposed the roots and base of the plant where the crown is located.
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