Good day to all!
We are in the homestretch to Thanksgiving, and to an eater like me, it’s the best holiday in regards to eating lots of food with the entire family around. A cold front passing through gave us a crispy Tuesday morning sunrise with a temp of 45 degrees. These past two weeks we were able to excel greatly through our trimming cycle around the resort with the help of the mowing team and supplemental team. Previous summary estimated us reaching into the purple zone, we reached lot 4705 Southern Breeze Drive in the brown zone lakeside, as the off-lake side of this zone was completed. This week our mowing team completed its route around the resort and next week will be the bi-week, they will help with pruning. Annuals at the front of clubhouse and gate house were completed this week and the Collier sign bed will be completed 11/17. Supplemental team will be arriving mid week next week to continue on Clusia hedges and start Arboricola hedges. Service requests completed and turned in over the past two weeks range about 25 tickets as we’ve pruned through the lots.
*Pruning Schedule
- Week of November 17th: (Brown/ Red)
- Week of November 10th: ( Red/ Clubhouse/ Yellow)
*Weed spraying
- Weeks of October 20th through 27th : From lakeside lots 4789 Corian Court to 4549 SBD and club house. And then starting at off-lake lot 4520 SBD to approximately 5000 CL. (Actual completion was- past 5000 CL and included all off-lakes lots back to the club house.)
- First week of November our mowing team will be helping the pruning team and will not spray as much, estimating by the end of the second week of November, all lakeside lots will be sprayed. (Actual sprayed by end of second week in November was clubhouse and lakeside lots to lot 4809 Southern Breeze Drive, will follow up weekly with management.)
- Last two weeks of November its estimated completing lakeside lots for spray for weeds.
*IPM / Fertilization
- Week of Jan 7, 2025: Applied granular fertilizer (16-0-8) to grass
- Week of Jan 13, 2025: Applied fungicide to Brown Patch areas
- Month of April Pelican Lakes
- Fertilized grass with 16-0-8
- Fertilized palms with 0-0-30
- Sprayed chinch
- Weed control
- Applied nutrients
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- Month of April Pelican Lakes
- May 14, 2025: Service Request completed
4605 Southern Breeze Dr
- Sprayed hibiscus
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- June 18, 2025: Pelican Lakes
- Sprayed chinch
- Sprayed weeds
- Applied insecticide and IPM
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- Week of October 6th
Turf inspection
Turf weed and insect control (as needed)
Turf fertilizer (minding the newly sodded areas)
Plant inspection and treatment (as needed)
Fertilizing Clusia hedge along Championship Blvd.
Fall plant fertilization scheduled for Nov. 19th-20th.
Winter lawn fertilization scheduled for Jan. 12th-16th.of October 6th- Turf inspection
- Turf weed and insect control (as needed)
- Turf fertilizer (minding the newly sodded areas)
- Plant inspection and treatment (as needed)
- Fertilizing Clusia hedge along Championship Blvd.
An assessment of our resort was completed by our IPM manager, results as follows:
So far, my assessment of the property is that the grass is well taken care of. There are a couple of blemishes from the beginning of dry season, but nothing out of the ordinary.
Second, there is a wide variety of palm trees in this community. Per lot, it can vary—some lots have upwards of 9 different types of palms, and the total number of palms can range from as few as 8 to as many as 30 per lot. So there are a lot of palm trees in this community, in a relatively small space, and many of them are aging palms with a great amount of variety.
Looking at these palm trees overall, their health is well taken care of. There are not a lot of deficient palm trees. The most noticeable deficiencies are in a handful of foxtail palms, but that may be caused not so much by fertilizer application, but by limited vascular efficacy as these palms get older in non-native soils compared to their homeland, which is Australia.
For the wide majority of palm trees, their health is excellent. With living things, though, also come diseases, and those are present here—ranging from ganoderma to possible lethal bronzing to possible fusarium decline. None of these can really be “prevented,” but they can be communicated and the palms should be removed once they contract these diseases. There is some level of prevention available for lethal bronzing, but treating this many palms is not feasible from a budgeting standpoint, so it’s better to address it on a case-by-case basis.
Overall, plant diseases—just like any disease that comes with living things—are to be expected, and this community is no exception. The amount of variety and the quantity of palms in a short area will definitely result in a higher frequency of death simply due to the sheer number of palm trees and varieties concentrated in one place.
We haven’t seen any weevils on the Bismarcks, no scale on the palms, and we’re not seeing many whitefly on the coconut palms. Some of our controllable diseases are not happening; it’s more of the uncontrollable diseases that are showing up. In our estimation, that’s good news, because it means we’re doing everything we can to control our controllables.
*Irrigation
- Wet check crew provides property wide service once a month (second and third week of month), David is on site one day per week addressing service requests as needed.
- October’s wet checks were completed. November’s wet checks began this Wednesday and will be completed by the end of the third week.
- David completed 15.00 service requests.
- We rode through property and found areas of stressed sod, meeting Tuesday to discuss these areas and how we are going to manage them going forward.
- David was onsite more frequently during the week of 11/10 to review sod around property, inspect annual flowers coverage, fixed mainline leak at 4800 CC, and running/ burying control wire.
The topic for this week is possible effects to plants from cold weather.
Thank you all for your continued teamwork and dedication—have a great Greenscapes day!