Parkland Green

A low cost green, very suitable for farms converting to golf course if low levels of play are expected. (Materials cost about £4000) . Soil based greens hold moisture and nutrients extremely well reqquiring approximately half the fertilisers required by sand based greens. Their main disadvantage is that they cannot take high levels of play in wet winter conditions. The green was built by using a stone carpet over a herringbone drainage system. The 30cm soil layer (sterilised using dazomet was separated from the stone layer using Terram a microporous geotextile.

 

Total area constructed 700 sq.m

 

Date constructed August 1992

 

Root zone 90% soil 10% sand Zone 4

 

Construction Herringbone drainage system at 5m centres using 75mm pipe

 

Stone carpet150mm of 20mm gravel

 

Polypropylene 3mm membrane, 10mm of 5mm stone

 

Seed mixture British Seed Houses A11 mix