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Tatars prepare for World Cup with combination of Redexim seeders

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Guy Oldenkotte, Friday 29 June 2018
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The Kazan Arena in Tatarstan, an autonomous republic within the Russian Federation, will host 6 games during this FIFA World Cup. Field manager Aleksey Petushkov explains what he did to get the field in optimum condition.

The Tatars have their own cultural habits. At the beginning of this important season we slaughtered a goat in one of the goal areas in the hope that this would bring home advantage to our team.

The stadium pitch is a Desso Grassmaster field. Around the field we had a strip of Mixto hybrid grass installed. We have been using a combination of 2 machines to overseed. Both machines were produced by Redexim. There is a disk overseeder (Overseeder DD model 1830), which places the seed in slots, and a sower with a puncture roller (Speed-Seed) that places the seed in thousands of holes directly underneath the grass sods. Grass seeds in the Overseeder DD model 1830 drop in a groove between discs that close. As a result almost all seeds come to germination. The distance between the grooves is only 3 cm, which is closer together than for any other type of trailed sowing machine.

The Speed-Seed distributes the seeds in thousands of shallow holes to ensuring that excellent grass density is achieved.

We started sowing in November 2017, shortly before the start of the harsh winter during which we measured temperature drops to minus 30 degrees Celsius. We used a special cover to protect the field and the seeds against the winter cold. Once spring started in early March, the subsurface heating was switched on to stimulate the seed to germinate.

As soon as the ground was hard enough to drive over with tractors, we used both sowing machines again and this process was repeated a number of times during the spring.

That was followed up with applying a fine layer of sand for which we used the Rink brush spreader. We also used a combination of other brushes (Verti-Brom, Verti-Comb, Verti-Brush) to work the material into the pitch.



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