{"id":13482,"date":"2021-05-27T06:26:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T09:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13482"},"modified":"2021-05-27T06:26:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T09:56:34","slug":"cricket-turf-maintenance-in-brampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13482","title":{"rendered":"Cricket turf maintenance in Brampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article by Mike Jiggens on the Turf and Rec web site on the challenges of developing cricket fields in Brampton..<br \/>\n&#8220;Brampton\u2019s cricket user groups began to press the city with a number of demands for its fields.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we tried educating the people, there was quite a bit of pushback from the user groups and at times they were questioning if we knew what we were actually doing out there,\u201d Macklin said.<\/p>\n<p>The groups\u2019 demands posed a number of maintenance challenges for the city\u2019s parks department, the most notable of which was a request to mow the playing surfaces at a half-inch height.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis wasn\u2019t just on our irrigated fields, but on our non-irrigated fields as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the city\u2019s cricket fields were mowed at one inch for irrigated playing surfaces and two inches on fields without irrigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGenerally, this was a good height to produce healthy turf,\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.turfandrec.com\/cricket-turf-maintenance-another-ballgame\/\">Full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article by Mike Jiggens on the Turf and Rec web site on the challenges of developing cricket fields in Brampton.. &#8220;Brampton\u2019s cricket user groups began to press the city with a number of demands for its fields. \u201cAs we tried educating the people, there was quite a bit of pushback from the user [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13483,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13482\/revisions\/13483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}