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Rootzones, Sands and Top Dressing Materials for Sports Turf
The Sports Turf Research institute has had an extensive programme of research, funded primarily by the governing bodies of individual sports, to examine the most appropriate material for construction and maintenance work.
Winter Games Pitches
Covering the establishment and care of grass for a wide variety of sports such as association football, rugby, hockey, lacrosse, the Gaelic games, American football and including facilities such as polo grounds, this work provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject. Divided into nine sections, a detailed introduction to the sports to be catered for is followed by sections on: pitch construction and design; sands for construction and top dressing; frost protection and soil warming; grasses for winter pitches; maintenance machinery; fertilizers for pitches; weeds, pests and diseases; and end of season renovation.
Grass Tennis Courts
This work looks at the construction and maintenance of grass tennis courts. Published in partnership with the All-England Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon, the book is an authoritative guide on the construction and maintenance of grass tennis courts at all levels of the game. It provides comprehensive coverage of modern scientifically-based turf cultural practices and shows how they can be applied in the production and management of a natural turf surface for tennis.
Sports Turf Bulletin
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Natural Turf for Sport and Amenity
This book describes our current knowledge of soils and turfgrass science as applied to the design, production and management of natural turf. The first five chapters cover general principles while further chapters apply these to specific contexts. These include golf courses and bowling greens, soccer, rugby and cricket fields as well as tennis courts, and horse racing tracks. There are also chapters on amenity grass and warm-season turfgrass. The book is aimed at students taking courses in turf science and sportsground management, amenity horticulture, and landscape and recreation provision and management. It will also be a standard reference work for practitioners working in sportsground management or related subjects such as landscape architecture.
STRI Guidelines, Golf Green Construction in the United Kingdom
The Sports Turf Research Institute has been carrying out research and consultancy work for golf for over 75 years. This work features guidelines that are based on their technical and practical experience.
Sands for Sports Turf Construction and Maintenance
Sand materials are important for golf courses, bowling greens and winter games pitches. As well as providing a review of the use of sands on sports turf areas, this work gives detailed specifications of the most suitable material for the varied applications for which sand is needed. As such it includes specifications for rootzone sands, top dressing material, blinding, slit drainage and bunker sands. The booklet is aimed at users of sands, including greenkeepers, groundsmen and technical managers of turf areas, and sand suppliers.
Fertilisers for Turf
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