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Turf grass addict, cricket worshipper, hobby gardener with lots to learn and full time professional pitch geek for the ECB. (Also dad, husband, dog ostler). Views are my own.
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Great to see the flood recovery well underway on the New Road pitches. This innovative method allows Stephen Manfield the WCCC HGM to germinate seed and grow grass when the conditions outside won’t allow for at least another two months, and with soil temps of 17 degrees it’s easy to see why.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Was intending to start installing micro irrigation today (work often takes me away from home for a few days at a time) but it’s what can only be described as ‘minging’ up in West Cheshire today so I bottled out and went to find some seed potatoes instead. I chose Pentland Javelin for first earlies.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Garlic. The first thing that has been planted out in my little plot since it’s creation (ignoring the beans that were for a green compost) and a week after the mushroom compost went down in the beds. There are other rows dotted about the edges, intended to deter pests for crops to come. #nodig

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

From speaking to my kids, Tesla are now the least cool car you can own. I know that only three or four years ago they considered them the last word in motoring cool. In fact, the epically quick, super-tech Tesla appears to have now become the playground version of the Skoda from my school days. 😂

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Grew impatient with the field beans that I hadn’t grown first under glass (though not as impatient as Mrs Grassjunkie was becoming with the large pile of compost on the drive) so applied cardboard and then 4-5” of the lovely spent mushroomy stuff to the beds. Have enough left for last bit in March.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Well I got some pathways down and today, assisted by my able assistant (youngest daughter), managed to get some field beans into the ground in three of the beds as a green manure and to help the soil recover. It’s a bit late but they won’t grow in the bag and I’m banking on more mild weather. #nodig

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

I was able to attend the funeral of Professor William Arthur Adams (Bill) today and had the privilege to celebrate his life. Bill was a lovely man and a great soil scientist. We still use many of his soil tests in cricket and the work I do now strongly relies on his former research. A great man.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Finally completed my greenhouse today by installing a central path, a bed with several inches of compost on one side and staging over soil on the other. Next is to mark out the beds and install simple paths. I was going to sow a green manure of field beans, but the weather has really set me back.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

…and if you want to see the what I look like on three hours sleep then watch this: www.instagram.com/henry_moeran...

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Really pleased with the results of this project! Great feedback from the players and coaches and more importantly, we have a new cricket soil in the UK that could give us some great options in the future. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

If you are someone who uses the clegg hammer in sports turf, then this number will surprise you. The new soil currently in use for England squads goes rather harder than normal!

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

I’m away for work so the big dog spent the night sleeping hard on my side of the bed. Apparently he’s now gone back to his bed for a rest.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Jason from Surrey Loams Ltd and I looking at the new Gamechanger cricket soil we developed so England cricket squads could practice in conditions more representative of overseas. Genuine pace and bounce in these decks, they take spin well and are suitable for UK grasses and climate.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

So for my first Bluesky post I thought I’d share pics of how my little vegetable plot is progressing at home. This was meant to be a nodig project but then I found the remains of an old building buried a couple of inches under the turf over the entire area😵. Rubble now buried 1m+! Nodig from now on!

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments