Football pitch maintenance and management

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Aeration work is essential if good root growth is to be encouraged through routine slit tining (especially on sandier rootzones with minimal stones within it), heavier chisel-slit tines where the soil is more compacted and prone to having stones and other inclusions within a rootzone and solid tining.

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Annual 12-month example maintenance plan summary

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The total quantity of materials that might be needed to maintain a soil-based football pitch can vary considerably due to a number of factors, including:

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How many hours does it take to maintain a football pitch?

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The following data table provides further detail for the inputs for all the different maintenance activities in the Annual Total Input Hours per Month chart.

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There are many variables which influence the actual, in contrast to the planned, work which are needed to produce a football pitch to a desired standard on a regular basis and in a cost-effective and resource effective way.

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Biostimulants are products which might be applied to a sward for many reasons.

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These implements are useful where budgets and resources are limited because they have two sides:

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A modern constructed football pitch will typically have 200-300mm depth of a very sandy soil to one of mostly sand.

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Decompaction of a pitch, especially soil-based ones which have not been constructed but rather marked out as a pitch on a general soil-based area, will be very beneficial.

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