Cricket Square Maintenance-Annual Planner

Take a look at the below chart titled the cricket square maintenance annual planner, its aim is to just give you a rough guide and help you plan in terms of labour and material for the coming months and weeks.

This is rough guide, so whether the use of granular is suitable for the month stated has to come down to you, if in doubt read the label and you wont go far wrong or speak to the person who sold you it.

Please note timings are a rough guide, based on my own experiences of living down south and may vary.

Also check out a couple of videos below on winter maintenance by the ECB

Ideally this planner needs to be viewed on a desktop computer, to be seen as a whole.

Season Planner

Jan

Feb

March

April

May

June

July

August

Sept-

Oct

Nov

Dec

Season Planner

1-Soil Analysis

#

#

#

Soil Analysis

2-Mowing

#

#

#

#12-15mm

#

#

#

#

#

# 30mm

#25-20mm

20-18mm

Mowing

3-Square up

#

#

Square up

4-Pre-Season roll

#

#

#

Pre-Season Roll

5-Overseed

#

#

#

#

#

#

Overseed

6-Feeding Window

#

#S/S

#

#

#

#

#

#low N

#

Feed

7-Verticut (v)/Brush Dew (B)

Brush

B

B#

#

#

Brush

B

Verticut(v) Brush(B) Dew off

8-Red Thread Activity

#

#

#

#

#

#

#

Red Thread activity

9-Weed Control

#

#

#

#

Weed Control

10-Pitch Prep

#

#

#

Pitch Prep

11-Pitch Repairs

#

#

#

Pitch Repairs

12-Renovations

#

#

Renovation

13-Worm Control Window

#

#

#

#

#

Worms Control Window

14-Aeration

#

#1-2″

#2-4″Depth

#2-4″

Aeration

I am also looking to do a cricket square maintenance annual /planner, but for other sports so watch this space..

Very helpful video below from the ecb, which is worth a watch👇🏻

For part two of the above video check out our How To Video Guide page-

How to Video Guide Archives

key to above chart –

Low N- Low Nitrogen

S/S Spring/Summer fertilser

18mm e.g = Height of Cut (does not include pitch HOC)

Brian

If you would like a printable version –

As great as our blogs are they will never replace hands on training, this can be accessed via your local groundsman association and via the Grounds Management Association

https://thegma.org.uk/learning/training

---