Fallowing

The process of leaving a soil idle: Leaving it to Fallow.

  False Spring

Whilst the UK weather is quite variable there is often a short period of up to a few weeks, typically from mid-February to early March, when warmer air temperatures produce a short burst of grass growth. This is temporary, and growth is frequently impeded just afterwards as cooler air temperatures, as well as frozen conditions and sometimes snow, return. Good strong natural spring growth doesn't start occurring until at least 10ËšC is reached, so this will be late March at the earliest in many cases. Caution is needed so as not to apply a significant spring fertiliser during a false sprin

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  Feasibility Study

An assessment of a proposal or planned course of action to provide an indication of its likely success and practicality of implementation. It is a lighter version of a comprehensive evaluative study, but still having well defined outcomes, often acting as a preliminary study where complex projects are being planned. It is suited for pilot studies, which can evolve into other projects, as well for many routine projects typically encountered within the workplace. A feasibility study can include a SWOT analysis, identifying potential risks involved and to identify further areas for more detai

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  Fertiliser Application

When a solid fertiliser (e.g. powder, granular, mini-granular, etc.) is applied to a turfgrass surface there are a number of conditions which will help ensure optimum application and evenness of spread, including: • Dry surface conditions. • A moist soil. • Calm, not windy, weather conditions. • A correctly calibrated spreader. • Correct application rate. • A clean, uncontaminated and free flowing fertiliser, that has not stuck together.

  Firming

The action of consolidating a turf surface or soil to create a smooth even surface which aids root establishment.

  First Floodlight Training Syndrome

This is where rugby and football players focus their training under the floodlights on a training area, especially those nearest the changing rooms, without spreading wear over the rest of the training pitch. All of a pitch will be lit up by the floodlights, but not as extensively as those areas directly under the lights. This lack of training pitch management results in a rapidly worn surface and one which is difficult to re-establish a suitable grass sward over specific areas of the pitch, especially over the winter months with limited daylight.

  Floodlight Syndrome

Worn areas on winter pitches where players have concentrated their training sessions practically right beneath floodlit areas rather than spreading training, as well as wear, over a larger area which will still be lit by the floodlights.

  Footprinting

1. Foot impressions left on a turf surface from the slowness of water stressed grass to rapidly return to an upright position after being walked on. 2. When a frosted grass surface is walked on, this action crushes and kills plant cells, leaving an often-blackened footprint appearance.

  Frost Pocket

A location in which denser, cold air is formed and trapped. This can typically be found in numerous places, including hollows, low lying land, by boundary features such as walls, sheltered areas, north facing areas, shaded spots, land at the bottom of hills. Turfgrass surfaces which are exposed to frost pockets can be affected in several ways, including: • Later spring growth. • Reduced or delayed seed germination. • Slower seed and sward establishment. • A shorter growing season. • The need to carry out earlier than usual autumn renovation. • Reduced car

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  Full Cost Accounting

An assessment method which identifies the direct and indirect costs of a product or service as well as the external costs (which may be harmful emissions to the atmosphere, water or soil) of its production and use. By gaining a more detailed understanding of the impacts of a product or service, the full cost of these impacts can be embedded into either the product or service or applied as a regulatory tax to better serve society. Manufacturers and service providers would be incentivised to improve on reducing the negative environmental and social impacts of their outputs, as this would reflect

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