I love youth baseball, coach every year and have been in
charge of our town’s field maintenance.
I think proof is in the pictures, take some before, during and after shots
as well as your other tests. Also,
baseball players, coaches, parents and fans like a clean turf. If you can reduce weeds w/o adding chemicals that the kids
eat while sliding into third, they’ll really like you. Another thought would be a “hoop sample”
test. Throw some hula hoops out to
get a random sample of the plant types found. Try to reduce the weeds while encouraging the turf. That’s proof that parents/cities would
like to see. Also, in those samples note how many divots, or areas (size
and number) of bare dirt there is.
Try to decrease the size and number of these divots and increase the
turf (expect Jonny out in left field to bore his own divots tho – gets pretty
slow out there sometimes –grin) I’m not so sure they’ll care much about how the b/f
increases – except in concern that their fields now contain more bacteria and
fungi – not knowing, or caring, if its good fungi/bacteria, active or sleeping –
I just think it’ll throw a red flag in their thinking that their taxpayer’s kids
will be playing in a “bacteria” riddled field. I’d personally (definitely) use the b/f/om counts for your
own knowledge base, but the tests I’ve suggested above to prove to the
city/parents that AACT works while not negatively affecting the health of the
players. Clean, pretty, flat fields – that’s what ball field’s need. Oh, be careful not to get the infields
growing nice green grass either – nothing encourages a sprayer happy city
maintenance guy more than grass in the infield !! Hope that helps, Mike -----Original
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sounds great to me, Kevin. keep doing what you are doing ! Bob We just recieved notice that the requisition is accepted and to
proceed with our first Muni Parks and Rec job; Hip Hip! Applying TEA
tomorrow to three baseball parks. COOL.
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