Promotor On As Super-Sub For Improved Spec A20
Germinal Seeds has revitalised its best-selling sports pitch seed mixture, A20 Premier Ryesport, with the inclusion of Promotor Perennial Ryegrass. Promotor replaces Vitellius in the standard A20 mixture, with users set to gain from a range of benefits offered by the newly available cultivar.
“Promotor is available for the first time now that a new crop of seed has been harvested and will make up 15% of the A20 seed mixture,” explains Richard Brown, Amenity Sales Manager for Germinal Seeds (GB).
“Promotor gives strong performance across all the important parameters on the BSPB’s Table S1 list for sports use with excellent scores for shoot density [7.4], recovery [7.4], live ground cover [7.4] and visual merit following wear [7.4]. As such it perfectly complements the other varieties within the standard A20 mixture.”
Historically, A20 Premier Ryesport has included a mixture of five high quality perennial ryegrasses including 25% Eugenius, 20% Vesuvius, 20% Cadix, 20% Carnac and 15% Vitellius. Going forwards the standard A20 mixture will now include Promotor instead of Vitellius. Richard Brown.
Richard believes that the revised seed mixture offers users improvements across the most important cultivar characteristics. “Pound for pound Promotor is better across those parameters that really matter,” he explains. “By replacing Vitellius, the standard A20 mixture now offers improved shoot density, enhanced fineness of leaf and superior live ground cover after wear.
“We are always striving to stay ahead of the game by bringing the best new cultivars into our mixtures,” Richard continues. “With Promotor now in stock, we have taken the opportunity to amend our standard A20 specification so that our customers can access the very best combination of ryegrasses at the earliest opportunity.
“A20 is well-regarded within the sports amenity sector with many award-winning football pitches benefitting from the genetic diversity that the standard mixture offers. Uniquely, the A20 mixture can also be tailored to include a wide selection of British-bred cultivars from the Germinal Seeds stable so that each ‘Your A20’ mixture perfectly matches the user’s specific requirements,” he concludes.
Promotor is exclusive to Germinal Seeds (GB) Ltd and is available as part of the A20 Premier Ryesport mixture at no extra cost. It is available immediately.
