{"id":1213,"date":"2021-02-23T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/blog\/soil-temperatures-for-fairy-ring-cricket-edition\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T12:46:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T12:46:40","slug":"soil-temperatures-for-fairy-ring-cricket-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/it\/blog\/soil-temperatures-for-fairy-ring-cricket-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Soil Temperatures for Fairy Ring – Cricket edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

I caught up with a whole selection of the County Cricket groundsman last week to talk about Fairy ring and it’s management.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

There are a few critical things with fairy ring:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Manage your expectations <\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The green rings you see are likely to be last years activity -short term positive results are more likely to be masking of symptoms than control. This is a long term game and success will not be achieved overnight.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Target the right area<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Fairy rings are the result of many different types of fungal pathogen<\/a> and can manifest themselves differently depending on the many variables that can be found in the soil. Knowing what depth the fungal activity is (test by removing a core and doing a water droplet test or incubating in a bag) can help target the fungicide to the right area using correct amount of water after applying, wetting agents (if necessary) and aeration.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Temperature and intervals<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Optimum temperature to get the best out of a fungicide application is soil temps of 12.5C to 15C. Fairy ring is a challenging soil borne pathogen so intervals of around 14 days between treatments improves your chances.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

When then?<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I pulled some soil temp data out from our database for a number of County Cricket clubs to see when would be optimum. Surprisingly the variability was very small (except Durham – where you lagged a long way behind!) but when I look at a map I can see I have been a bit Southern biased!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Optimum for most of these areas of the country are Mid April to Late May with Durham lagging behind not reaching those temps until Late May.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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The guys I was talking to rightly pointed out that targeting fungicides with appropriate watering schedules, wetting agents and aeration are very difficult operations to undertake during that period of the year.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Alternative Strategy <\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

So let’s look at the back end of the year, Knowing this is a long term strategy and we’re trying to make positive inroads on an annual basis – should we look at the end of the season when there is a bit more freedom? Durham is still limited to a shorter window but the rest of the venues I looked at have a wider range to go at.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Key points:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n