Hi Wal, Firstly, the 18 mm limit is for recovery of the grass. Depending on the weather, even as much as 15 mm cover can put the lawn out of action for up to 2 months. With regard to accuracy, my back

Hi Wal, Roberta and all An (amateur) video of laser leveling of the Jamberoo CC lawn 1 in January 2015 can be seen at: https://vimeo.com/246384287 (just under 2 minutes long). Unfortunately when the l

Hi Roberta, No problem putting it up on FB and I will upload the video to either Vimeo or YouTube and send the link Cheers Roger

Hi Wal, I have stepped back from croquet this year but I looked after the Jamberoo lawns for many years and we laser-leveled one of the lawns about every 2 years commencing with our 3rd lawn in 2010.

Hi Margaret, We got the Primo Maxx from a company called 'Living Turf' in Sydney (Marrickville). Primo Maxx is in Liquid form and needs to be diluted considerably before spraying. Living Turf is a spe

Hi John and Alex, Thanks for the feedback on the use of Primo Maxx. I got the tip from the Kiama Golf Club Greenkeepers and they have claimed, as do the makers, 'Syngenta' that, apart from inhibiting

Hi Croquet Greenkeepers, A couple of our colleague golf club greenkeepers have suggested we apply a growth regulator called Primo Maxx to our lawns during the summer growing season. According to the m

Hi Jan, I agree with you. I have a mathematical background but I cannot see a lot of logic in this new system. Also, when introducing a new system it would be nice if there was some better explanation

Hi Yvonne, To unsubscribe you can just send an e-mail to: cnswplayers+unsubscribe@groups.io or ask me and I will remove you from the list. Regards Roger

Hi Roberta, I am not a great fan of Facebook but if you would like to advertise this list on Facebook then please do so. I suspect that many of us old timers are more comfortable with an e-mail list t

Hi Players, One thing I forgot to mention in the previous e-mail is that if you want to access the features of the main web site at: https://groups.io/g/cnswplayers it will be necessary to log on. It

Hi CNSW Players, You are receiving this e-mail from the new 'groups.io' platform and all the valid members of the old Yahoo list have now been transferred. The message archive from the old list has al

Hi Rik, I have left it open to start with and if there are any 'undesirables' they can be removed.� We can, however, restrict it so that new applications will require approval.� This can be done l

Hi CNSW players, Thanks to all who responded to the suggestions that we transfer this list from Yahoo Groups to Groups.io Since no one seemed to be against the transfer I will take it to the next stag

Hi Alex, Yes I have considered Google Groups and I manage one group using Google Groups. I believe that groups.io is better than both Google groups and Yahoo. Here is a comment from Fletcher on e-mail

Hi CNSW players, This list is hosted on a Yahoo Groups platform but Yahoo are not improving it and, in fact, their service seems to be going backward. As some of you may have experienced, it is cumber

Hi Rik and Tony and all, Surely if the simple act of removing a clip (or clips) causes a ball (presumably one in contact with the wire) to move then it would indicate that the hoops are too loose in t

Hi Lawns maintainers, I didn't get much of a response to my query on what lawnmowers clubs are using but those I did get (mainly off the list) were very useful and the comments are appreciated. Some c

Hi Players, As a follow up to my previous query regarding mowing cut height it is clear that we are out of step with what is generally used at other clubs. I received 6 replies to my query on this lis

Hi Tim, Alex and all, Thanks for you comments and I also received an of interesting 'phone call on the subject. It certainly appears that our lawns are being cut 2 or 3 mm too long and so we will furt