Sports fields are without question the most valuable and important turfgrass areas in most communities in the US. Ask any high school coach how important thick dense grass is on his sports field and he will tell you it’s critically important for player safety from injury.
Fertigation is a great tool for sports fields since sports fields have two seasons. One is during play and practice and the other when it is not in use between seasons.
Fertigation can be turned up at an increased rate to push the grass growth before the season and carry the growth through the season of play. It can grow thick dense grass that is safe to play on. Thick and dense grass will cushion the player and reduce player injury.
Fertigation is the fastest way to recover damaged areas from over play. Field recovery is important to any coach. Today many sports fields have irrigation zones at high use areas, like the center of a football field and soccer goal mouths that are damaged often. Fertigation can be used to double or triple the irrigation and fertilizer rates to those damaged areas to bring the grass back to playable condition very fast.
At the end of the season, the fields are put into standby mode. Fertigation is great during that low maintenance period. Irrigation is cut back and the field is mowed less. However, fertigation can help reduce water use by 50% while maintaining reasonable quality. Fertigation can lightly apply maintenance fertilizer, soil conditioners to promote root growth and Probiotic biology to reduce soil compaction. This will keep the field healthy and ready for the next season.
We offer several models for sports fields. Our L500 and L600 work well on a single field or multi-fields up to 10 acres, and our L750 and L1000 are designed for field complexes from 15 to over 80 acres.
Our systems are used by many school districts as well as universities and professional baseball fields across the US, as well as the Hong Kong professional soccer stadium in China.
Let us help your field managers and coaches create a great safe sports field for your city or school district.
Michael Chaplinsky
Turf Feeding Systems – Houston, TX – USA