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Introduction This article is designed to enable even the least experienced volunteers or greenkeepers in bowling clubs to follow a plan of action to maintain the bowling green in good condition throughout the season. I am Duncan Gray. I spent…

Myth. Contrary to the advice given in many gardening magazines and TV programmes, the grass does not stop growing during Winter in our climate. Any mild spell sees grass growing, albeit much more slowly than at peak times, and a…

This is the time of year that bowling clubs are winding down for the end of the playing season, but it is also when good planning and execution of the Autumn renovation programme will ensure that the condition of your…

Seaweed is largely under-appreciated in the gardening world, classed merely as a soil conditioner or a fertiliser. Its benefits are so extensive, though, that it really should be given top billing in any maintenance programme for lawns, fine turf or…