Landscape & Urban Design Issue 15 2015 | Page 93

Turf Treatments A Game Changer For Bowls Venue Cradley Heath Liberal Bowling Club hosts 4 or 5mm that play dictates by the end of liquid feeds and supplements are used Crown Green competition several days and April.” But a weather pattern of warm days in the programme, along with a monthly nights a week. The season starts in earnest and cold nights damaged the turf balance, application of wetting agent." in mid-April for the West Midlands venue, creating bad patches, which delayed the which plays in the King's Swinford and development of the green to its optimum Oldbury leagues. state. Head groundsman Barry Hardwick, a Like all fine turf, Cradley Heath's green