Looking after your bowling green
Everything I have learned in a working life of greenkeeping, written for clubs that look after their own green: the jobs month by month, renovation, feeding, and what to do when something goes wrong.
Former head greenkeeper at Lahinch
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The Bowling Green Year
My month-by-month calendar, 19 pages, to print and pin up in the shed.
For clubs
The bowling green package
A year’s products and my programme for using them.
£1,995 a year, no VAT to add
This month on the green
Bowling Green Maintenance in November: Start the Winter Iron and Keep the Green Clean
- Clear the leaves every few days
- Switch off worm casts weekly
- Trim in mild spells, 6 to 8 mm
- First winter iron from mid-month
Start here
Month by month
- OctoberFinish the renovation and feed the new grass
- November · this monthStart the winter iron and keep the green clean
- November to FebruaryWinter maintenance on a bowling green
- February and MarchYour bowling green February and March to-do list
- SpringSpring preparation for any bowling green
- The whole yearA full year’s maintenance of a bowling green
Renovation and repairs
Feeding and seaweed
Moss, pests and problems
Help for your club
About Duncan Gray
I spent my working life in greenkeeping: head greenkeeper at Lahinch, then in charge of nine bowling greens for Kyle and Carrick, including Ayr Northfield for the World Championships. Now I help clubs look after their own greens.
Ask Duncan about your greenThe month on the green, in your inbox
Short emails with the jobs for your green in the order I would do them, and what to order before the rush. Free, and you can leave any time.
From me, and never passed on.