Progress Report On Our Goal Of Improving the Greens On The Amazon Golf Course

Progress Report On Our Goal Of Improving The Greens On The Amazon Golf Course

We have worked on the greens every day since June 6th when I posted the article The Greens On The Back Side Of The Amazon Golf Course, and I said, “All of the greens are playable today. I expect immediate incremental daily improvement in the quality of the greens, and a noticeable improvement within one month.”

Green number 7 covered with sifted, fine, organic compost at the Amazon Golf Course

Daily progress has been made. All of the greens have been hand weeded, mowed repeatedly, and rolled. Five greens have been spread with a mixture of compost and lime. We had a new heavy duty green roller welded and delivered today that will be a big improvement over our previous roller, which I will have spikes welded on to turn it into a thatcher. Plans are slowly coming along. We will have noticeable improvements by July 6, and sooner. Come on out and play a round to see for yourself.

This is our new heavy green roller. Filled with sand it is a two or three man tool.

In the last few days we found, purchased, transported, mixed, and spread our organic compost mixture. We purchased 48 large bags of old rotten sawdust, 50 bags of old rotten chicken guano, 35 bags of finished compost, and 30 kilos of lime. Our greens crew are mixing them to the following recipe; 5 sacks of sawdust, 1 sack of chicken guano, 1 sack of black dirt finished compost, and two hand fulls of lime.

Margarita and the greens crew built a nursery from the organic compost mixture to grow grass for the greens to transplant in where improvements can be made.

We are using the organic compost mixture to side dress the greens, and established trees and plants. We will use the compost mixture to improve the survival and growth rate of the 2,000 trees and blooming bushes we are planting. Our soil is very acidic, and varies from poor nutrient clay to poor nutrient sand. We expect the organic compost mixture to be a valuable contribution to our success.

This is the worst established tree on the Amazon Golf Course. We side dressed it with our organic compost mixture. I hope to show you a photo of this tree alive and well in a few months.

What do you think? Let us know your suggestions either in the comments below, by email, or in person. Collectively you know a lot more about green maintenance than any one person here can know.