Bowling Monthly Workload Planner

This maintenance planner provides the groundsman / turf manager with a detailed planning tool for estimating the monthly work required to maintain a bowling green to a defined standard, for example using Performance Quality Standards, for a full year.

Staff / Contract Cost per Hour, £
  Enter the estimated number of times that each task is to be carried out during the stated month  
Maintenance task   Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total - Freq  
Hours 5 5 4 5 5 4 5 5 4 5 5 4 52 wks Total - Hours
Mow ~8 - 11mm
Mow ~6.5mm
Mow ~5mm
Special mow
Trim edge of green
Aerate:slit tine
Aerate:solid tine
Aerate:sarel spike
Aerate:hollow tine
Top-dress:spring
Top-dress:autumn
Overseed
Returf worn ends
Fertilise
Turf tonic with sulphate of iron
Turf tonic with am'nium sulphate
Light rolling
Scarification
Verticutting
Dragbrush
Switching
Irrigation
Fungicide:contact
Fungicide:systemic
Selective herbicide
Mosskiller
Other pesticide
Wetting agent
Install ditch material
Remove ditch material
Misc' 1
Misc' 2
Misc' 3
Total hours input per month  
Total maintenance hours
Total staff cost: £
Material costs:£
Machinery costs:£
Other costs:£
Total maintenance cost:£

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