How The Amazon Golf Course Looked Thursday, November 5th

This Is How The Amazon Golf Course Looked November 5th

It was bound to happen sooner or later. Both weedeaters were broken down waiting for parts for two weeks, and the push mower needed repair last week. It is a jungle out there and difficult to keep up even when the equipment works. The mowing equipment is all repaired and running good today. We look forward to when the John Deere tractor mower arrives the first of next year. That will be a big help, and the weedeaters will not have to do it all. No weedeater, even a Stihl, is designed to cut 24 acres working nearly every day for 8 hours.

I am not sure if I have shown you this view looking east from the clubhouse. Someday soon the trellis fence will be full of that blooming vine. There are 4 small ficus trees, some citrus fruit trees, and some blooming bushes all doing very well. To the right, out of the photo is a low wet place were we have camu-camu bushes started.

As you can see, the top floor of the clubhouse is a great place to hang in a hammock, relax, and look out over the golf course while drinking a cold frosty beer or soda pop.

Notice the four ficus bushes to the left (west) of the putting green? The white flag is pointing at them.

These ficus are showing the results of our special compost mixture, our fertility program, and tender loving care. Compare them now to how they looked on May 31st, 5 months ago in the photo below.

You can see similar results in nearly every tree and most importantly, the improvement of the greens.

We bought 10 more crotons today to finish our pattern of one croton in between every Coconut Palm Tree along the fairways. They are small now but if they survive and thrive, like I am sure they will if we take care of them, they will grow to knee high in a year, waist high in two years, chest high in three years, and up to 6 feet tall in a few years. They will be spectacular.

Crotons come in many colors and leaf configurations. We have more than a dozen different styles.

This is the only croton we inherited when we took over management and maintanence of the Amazon Golf Course. I wish I had a before photo but I don’t. It was mostly bare stems with three or four leaves at the top of each stem. Now look at the new leaves on top, and all the new growth coming up around the base, compliments of our compost mixture, fertilizer, and tender loving care.

Wild animals grazed on this croton several weeks ago. It is coming back with new growth on the top.

Blossoms

As this Lupuna vine grows we will trellis it and provide a place to sit under its shade.

I hope these photos give you some idea of how the Amazon Golf Course looked Thursday, November 5th. We are going back tomorrow, Saturday, for the free golf lessons, to monitor progress, and to pay the crew. I will try to get more photos of what ever catches my attention to show you.

How The Amazon Golf Course Looked Thursday, November 5th

Bill Grimes is the manager of the Amazon Golf Course

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