TURF MANAGEMENT
Terralift Performance
Fertilisers
Across groundskeeping, performance fertiliser specialists Terralift are boosting sports
and amenity turf quality, heightening `green’ practices across football, rugby and golf,
while improving surface playability year round.
heir organically derived
nutritional and rootzone
supports are reaching beyond
traditional NPK and trace elemental
methods to help create optimal growth
environments throughout sport.
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At Leigh Sports Village, Lancashire,
head groundsman Keith Porter has
adopted Terralift fertilisers and its
innovative Quadrop water management
system for the 12,000-capacity
stadium’s main pitch and three other
natural surfaces.
His sons Martin and Matt worked under
him for some years, before Matt moved
over to regional executive for Aitkens,
sole national distributor for Terralift,
and has supplied Keith ever since, with
products including TX10 and TX11-1-5
naturally slow-release organic granular
fertilisers for the stadium pitch and
liquid feeds for the other natural turf
areas.
Keith finds the slow-release fertilisers
particularly helpful in avoiding turf
‘burnout’. When we introduced
grow lights four years ago, we were
concerned that we would stress the turf
and cause yellowing,” he explains, “but
because the TX fertilisers are organic,
they break down slowly, which helps the
plant avoid stressing.”
Home to Leigh Centurions and Leigh
East rugby league clubs as well as the
base for Manchester United FC ladies,
Manchester United U23s Premier
League 2 and U18s Champions league,
and host for occasional rugby league
internationals, the Village needs to
deliver sustainable sportsturf quality
at all times to meet its commitments of
up to 90 fixtures a year on the stadium
pitch alone.
“We attract plenty of travelling teams
from the UK and overseas including
Japan and the US,” explains Keith, a
past groundsman of the year.
“I’d known about Terralift products since
the time the Village was built, 14 years
ago, when a greenkeeper told me about
them and their benefits and started
using them soon afterwards.”
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GroundskeepingJournal.co.uk | Sept/Oct 2019