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Battersby Top Dressing 70/30 sterilised top dressing is ideal for use on fine turf areas and high quality lawns. It consists of a sand/soil blend that has passed through a steriliser unit and then over a 3mm screen in order to produce a pebble and stone free product.
Produced to a consistent mixture to ensure reliable results are achieved. A dependable free draining specification.
Easy to apply with a moisture content in the range of 1-2% w/w.
This type of material is an ideal combination for applying to fine turf surfaces, such as golf or bowling greens, and will improve high quality lawns and other turf surfaces.
70/30 Top Dressing can be used to improve the soil structure when carrying out routine maintenance such as aeration, as well as remediation in creating a true and level surface.
Application Rate
2-4 kg per square metre.
Available in 25kg bags.
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Top Dressing is usually used on lawns and bowling greens to improve the soil structure and provide better drainage which overall contributes to
healthy grass. For bowling greens, using top dressing also helps create a level playing surface and protects any recently sown grass seed.
Loam would never be used on a lawn due to its high clay content. In hot weather the loam will bake and become compacted, resulting in poor rooting for grass and bad drainage. However, loam is ideal for use on a cricket pitch as it is hard but grass will still grow in it. Cricket loam is quarried but doesn’t have any soil added.
Top dressing a lawn has many benefits.
- Topdressing helps keep the lawn’s surface levelled. This is done by filling all of the smaller hollows and undulations with the topdressing mix, thus levelling the lawn surface.
- Topdressing your lawn regularly helps prevent the buildup of thatch. Topdress can dilute the thatch layer and is also known to naturally break it down.
- Using sand based topdressing can improve your soil’s drainage and firm up the surface. This works particularly well after aeration as the topdressing can be worked into the soil through the holes left behind.
- Spreading peat-based topdressing can improve the drought tolerance of your lawn.
- Some topdressing mixtures contain nutrients so applying them can improve your lawn's fertility.
- Topdressing helps stimulate grass growth in lawns and betters the soil structure of the already existing root zone.
- Improves the lawn’s resilience.
Cricket loam is a blend of three minerals, clay, silt and sand.
The balance of the three minerals all play their part in the binding process of loam and are all key in the inter-packing of particles that create a hard surface, with the aim of the ball to not deform the surface on impact.
Cricket loams are also tested in terms of shrinkage rates and soil
strength testing (The Adam and Stewart binding test) meaning loam is quite a complex mix, with lots of differing factors and with this in mind your getting a well thought out bag of loam.
- Consistency, is every bag equal in moisture.
- Size of particles? This is only relevant if changing loams, but is it compatible with the shrinkage rate of my current loam.
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Roughly speaking, 8-10 bags of loam is enough to cover 1 cricket wicket.
1 x 25kg Pack Size has a coverage of approximately 12.5m² - 4m² depending on the spreading rate.
Spreading Rates range from:
- Light 2kg/m2
- Medium 4kg/m2
- Heavy 6kg/m2
Application Method(s)
- Spread by Hand
- Spreader