Ecosolve Ltd, now trading as Ecosol Turfcare, was set up by the King family in 1999 when they introduced new and exciting machinery to the British sports turf industry.

Managing director, Bretton King began our sales and contracting service with one Drill n Fill aerator, initially demonstrating and operating it himself all over the UK and in Ireland before very quickly finding the machine was required in Sweden too. Our first customer was Shirehampton Golf Club, near Bristol, which had compaction and poor grass cover on two greens. This job was swiftly followed by Ipswich Town Football Club. Soon after, the Drill n Fill performed the first of our many European commissions for Kungsangen GC in Stockholm, Sweden, at the request of the European PGA.

The revolutionary machine continued to work wonders on golf greens and other fine turf blighted by drainage problems, compaction, thatch and poor grass growth. One year later, St Andrews Links Trust requested a drill that could penetrate compaction and crushed sea shells to a depth of 18 inches. Ecosolve Ltd. commissioned a special Deep Drill machine which goes to that depth but does not backfill. Further development with the ECB has seen the Deep Drill become an important tool in cricket, increasing root depth and mass, which dramatically improves surface characterisics such as bounce and carry. Our portfolio also expanded to take in bowls clubs, working for such nationally acclaimed clubs as Cheltenham who National level competitions. We are often recommended by agronomists both here and on the Continent and by the ECB, RFU, STRI, IOG and other industry-leading agronomic consultancies.