Simple and easy maintenance for your POWERgrass hybrid grass
Generally, a constant and regular maintenance throughout the year, requires lower expenses compared to a single regeneration application, for better results in a natural grass pitch.
Maintance of POWERgrass hybrid grass is easier and contained. By following 10 topics it's sufficient to maintain the grass in good health, resistant up to 1400 playing hours per year.
Routine maintenance
- Mow regularly the grass at the height of 2.8-3.5 cm during the playing season and 4-5 cm during the hottest months of the summer when the grass rests.
- Water Management should be done infrequent to promote the development of deep roots. Despite the fact that during hot summers the grass requires frequent irrigation almost everyday, it's important that the soil moisture content is maintained at a low level: above the "wilting point" at which the grass will wilt, but below the "field capacity" to provide stronger grass cells.
- Line marking using a non-toxic paint for natural grass, by means of a line marking sprayer helps you save paint and time, offering bright white lines.
- Reseeding manually small areas of the greatest wear is very easy practicing small holes, good enough to cover the seeds, in the sand based growth medium.
- Remove the thatch built up on the surface and perforate the upper surface layer regularly to facilitate air circulation and remove compaction. Scarifying the surface to remove the excess of thatch. Use machines with springs instead of knives to avoid harming the artificial fibres that outstand over the ground surface. Fine harrowing instead will help also to raise the fibres on the standing position, meanwhile a sarel roller will remove surface compaction, improve air circulation and reduce water repellency.
- Fertilize 5-6 times a year with a slow-release product when the grass is established and bacteria activity is active. During establishment and when bacteria activity is low, use easy to uptake fertilizers to promote grass growth. Please note that excess of Nitrogen is not providing strong grass to foot traffic.
Specialized maintenance
- Spread sand on turf better in combination with aeration to improve water infiltration and keep the surface dry, to protect the crowns of the grass, to keep the surface even to play better and safer. PowerGrass doesn't like sanding, since sand tends to "bury" the artificial filaments. Though, if necessary, it's strongly recommended to combine it with scarifying machines with springs that tend to take away part of the material together with thatch. Control frequently growth medium in laboratory and use lime, if necessary to keep pH neutral.
- Deep soil aeration to eliminate compaction and promote water drainage and deep root development. In clay soils, if the budget is low and an USGA type soil costruction is not affordable, good results are obtained if combining a regular pipe system with slits drains filled with wet coarse sand to remove excess of water from the surface into underground layers, easy to carry out with DrainMaster. In POWERgrass hybrid grass, deep soil aeration is possible with Verti-Drain with fine or needle solid tines penetrating the soil and the backing at maximum 80-85° (slight lifting). ZEOsand is specially designed to reduce the need of deep aeration and reduce both maintenance costs.
- During the summer break overseed the existing turf to increase grass density and replace the plants damaged by the playing activity. In POWERgrass hybrid grass use a pin roller overseeder easy to make holes on the sand based growth medium and to cover the seeds without harming artificial filaments.
- Control annual weeds (mono and dicotyledons) with selective herbicides and prevent fungal diseases using registered products. In POWERgrass hybrid grass weeds have very little chance to grow since the system is not growing on the existing soil, but may occur in some cases in windy areas or in cases where local river sand is not clean. If the infection is limited remove them by hand or control weeds as usual natural grass.
- Preventing pests is always better, therefore water management, fertilisation and cultivation techniques should aim to reinforce the plant resistance to fungus attacks but when the climate is stressful for the grass growth don't hesitate to use registered products. Advise your Agronomist expert to avoid surprises and use alway recommended application rates to safe money and to avoid any environmental impact.
Note: avoid maintenance mechanical applications if the thermometer exceeds 32°C on cool season grasses and avoid using the pitch when the surface is frozen.
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Special atmospheric events
Remove snow from a sports field has never been so easy! In fields with natural grass, the equipment are likely to mark? In fields with synthetic turf, the snow is likely to remove the infill during its removal? In hybrid grass PowerGrass no worries! Adjusting the snow blower you can remove it early in the morning, in the afternoon to play on natural grass reinforced, in complete safety and comfort!
On January 13, 2017, in Verbania, a sudden snowfall the day before the game has failed to suspend the game! Thanks to the readiness of groundsman Salvatore Bianchi and the stability of the hybrid system PowerGrass, it was possible to remove snow in less than four hours the next morning, handing the field early in the afternoon to the teams for finishing before the home game.
One more reason to choose a hybrid system PowerGrass also for the fact that is weather-proof (snow, frost, heat, floods) that can cause serious damage in all other types of fields.
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New irrigation system at San Siro stadium: it facilitates the management of water for irrigation, provides greater uniformity in the distribution and saves the most precious resource.
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L'arieggiatura nel campo ibrido è raccomandata di frequente con le molle per evitare la formazione di feltro.
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By using fine solid tines of 8-12 mm with the Verti-Drain it;s possible to decompact the growth medium under the backing.
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Use a machine with conical pins to aerate and overseed PowerGrass
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Remove snow from a sports field has never been so easy! A sudden snowfall, the day before the game, failed to surprise the groundsman Salvatore Bianchi who removed the snow in less than 4 hours providing a ready to play field in the afternoon, thanks to the stability of the hybrid grass PowerGrass!