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| Publication Type:
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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | Sports Turf Research Institute |
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| Title: | Fertilizer treatment |
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| Section: | Enquiries and replies
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| Source: | Journal of the Sports Turf Research Institute. Vol. 61, 1985, p. 151-152. |
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| Publishing Information: | Bingley, West Yorkshire, UK: The Sports Turf Research Institute |
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| # of Pages: | 2 |
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| Question: | "We thank you for your recent report covering maintenance of our pitch for the next 12 months. We were surprised to note, however, that you advise an application of a complete fertilizer in the spring only. We were wondering if we should also give an NPK fertilizer in the autumn or winter to ensure good growth during the playing season." |
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| Answer/Response: | "In the case of a conventional soil pitch such as the one in question, the requirement of turf grasses for phosphate and potash is very small and the use of a 20:10:10 granular fertilizer for the spring should provide adequate quantities of these nutrients to ensure good grass growth throughout the following 12 months. The use of additional quantities of phosphate and potash is unnecessary from the grass growth point of view and is, therefore, wasteful and needlessly expensive. We find that most football clubs tend to use far more phosphate and potash than is really necessary and more frequent use of these materials would only be necessary where soil analysis showed very marked deficiencies, a rare situation. Even in the case of very sandy or sand-only pitches where nutrients tend to leech quickly we find that spring treatment with P and K is usually adequate. In the case of nitrogen, there is often a need for more frequent use of this element as the ryegrass which forms the main constituent of football pitch swards has quite a high nitrogen requirement. We, therefore, frequently advise additional dressings of nitrogenous fertilizer following spring treatment, giving perhaps up to 4 additional nitrogen dressings in the growing season. Frequent nitrogen dressings are particularly necessary for sandy pitches. Even with nitrogen, however, there is very little point in fertilizing in the late autumn or winter as grass growth at these times of year tends of year tends to be limited by weather conditions rather than nutrient deficiency. As a general rule, therefore, nitrogen treatment after mid-September is not usually advised." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Application timing; Fertilization program; Fertilizer recommendations; Football fields; Nitrogen fertilization; Nutritional requirements; Phosphates; Potash; Sports turf maintenance
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Sports Turf Research Institute. 1985. Fertilizer treatment. J. Turfgrass Sports Surf. Sci. 61:p. 151-152. |
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