The winter routine that brings a bowling green out of the closed season firm, clean and free of moss: mowing height, slitting, the iron programme, disease, and the surrounds, month by month from November to February.

£995 for a full year of products and a written programme for one bowling green. Delivered to the club, nothing else to pay. Most bowling clubs in Scotland and the rest of the UK are looked after by their own…

Artificial grass, fake grass, astroturf, synthetic lawn. Whatever you want to call it, artificial lawns are an oft discussed topic in lawn care circles, so I thought I should post a bit of info on when, where and how to…

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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…