Improving grass arena surface?

[Horses24-7]

Has anyone found a way of improving grass to make more rideable/less slippy for summer. We have a small indoor so it doesn't need to be winter proof as such-

we have a flat paddock we use alot over summer for jumping and our dressage boards that I was hoping to use next summer to run some weekend camps but obviously on grass it becomes very weather dependent. Didn't know if anyone has added a rubber crumb to it to help bind the top layer? Might be a completely daft idea but wanted to see if anyone had made anything work?

Many thanks

 

[Goldenstar]

I have a grass working area .
I roll it in the spring and then mow it every seven days as the grass sward gets stronger it will take more and more riding it’s never grazed except by horses in hand who are not allowed out .
It’s quite big you can get a 100 metre by 40 dressage arena in it and drive round the out side and circle at one end .
I move the jumps weekly to prevent damage .
I have two natural hedges in there that are great fun .
I wish I had done this ten years earlier .
You need to mow mow mow .
It’s not useable after heavy rain but in summer one or two days and it’s fine .
It’s perfect atm but shortly rain will come it won’t dry wuickly and I will close it for the winter .

 

[Horses24-7]

I have a grass working area .
I roll it in the spring and then mow it every seven days as the grass sward gets stronger it will take more and more riding it’s never grazed except by horses in hand who are not allowed out .
It’s quite big you can get a 100 metre by 40 dressage arena in it and drive round the out side and circle at one end .
I move the jumps weekly to prevent damage .
I have two natural hedges in there that are great fun .
I wish I had done this ten years earlier .
You need to mow mow mow .
It’s not useable after heavy rain but in summer one or two days and it’s fine .
It’s perfect atm but shortly rain will come it won’t dry wuickly and I will close it for the winter .

Great thank you

 

[Goldenstar]

You need to keep the sward quite long I use a diesel garden tractor with a mulching deck .
You never to let it get to long as you get a lot of dead rotting grass if you do .
A mulching deck chops everything down finely every time you mow and you should see no dead grass two days after cutting if you are getting it right .
If it get long then of course the grass takes longer to wilt and disappear but every time you cut it the mulching deck with mulch up the already cut grass again so within a couple of cuts it comes right .