
Originally Posted by
late_to_the_game
Had a look at the ground today, all marked out for football for the special Olympics.
The council ground staff re-sowed the ground with couch at the start of spring, and it is looking really good. The reason for the re-sow was that the union guys used the ground so much that in large areas the Kikuyu was completely gone - which became very obvious once the winter rye grass had been killed off.
I would love to put on my boots and knock a ball around, the surface is as flat as I have seen anywhere.