Bushcare Hewitts Creek

Coop 3 Flanagans We will be restricting our activities to only Coop 3 at Thirroul Beach. We have left it alone so far. There are reasons why the other coops and neigbouring areas will be left out of activities. New meeting place; the north side of the Thirroul Surf Club. Those driving should park near or in the surf club parking area.  In order of how much of these weeds there are on that site: Asparagus  - there are two types in the coop. See the video above for the technique to remove it from sandy soil. Note: the key thing is to do one and only, one plant at a time Get EVERY frond not just some of them. Twist and pull, then shake. Bag the whole plant, don't chase the tubers. Start with the small plants on their own and build to larger plants and tangled plants. Lantana . Do not attack whole plants, they are habitat.  Use secuteurs to only  remove branches that are competing with native plants. Coastal morning glory  - bag everything. Observe and decide ...

Flanagans if Not Rained Off  Most work tomorrow will be along the north bank of the creek & onto the first section of back beach:   Morning Glory ,  Fennel,  Bidens  & rubbish. There's some cleaning up of rubbish within the three coupes & some weeding of our planted area in the northern one.  2025 Weed of the week Ehrharta erecta   (or Panic Veldt-grass) is along the track on the creekside of Hewitts Creek and is too widespread to target complete removal. Just bag large specimens (in full seed) and any of the grass that is competing with native plants.   Flowering Cassias at Woodlands Ck can be removed & then its to the back of the Blady Grass for a weed salad or over to Manifest Destiny for attack on various regrowths. Given the rain forecast there should be no cut & paint tomorrow. Might also dig up a few unfortunately positioned Sandpaper Figs for relocation or temporary nursery. Check out previous years for jo...

Return to Hewitts Main targets tomorrow at Hewitts: both sides of the cycleway in the forested area need a clean-up. Morning Glory, Bidens, Fleabane, Kikuyu , Nightshades Manifest Destiny has a Belladonna lily , returning Noogura Burr , Cassia,   Fleabane,  et al.  There's also some cutting up of downed branches for a sawyer or two. some rogue Formosa Lilies (elsewhere) await a keen digger. Windy & cool with big seas & a 1.96m high tide due 9.30ish 2025 Back To Flanagans We will return to our new project a week early for tomorrow's session. Depending on numbers we may have up to 8 separate activities going, including: rubbish collection, especially around beach side of Bay1 cut & poison Asparagus Fern in our already cleared area. Pile non-regrowth fronds. roll up more  Morning Glory  runners & bag cut up fallen timber....maybe a "nest" or two beginning careful pull down & bag dead  Morning Glory  from Boobiallas , withou...

Whip Out A Weed/Nourish A Native  Tomorrow:  some watering at  Manifest Destiny a broken branch across the old track into  Manifest Destiny  needs a sawyer's attention Lilies, Fleabane , Purpletop et al are emerging both sides of the Stony Rd still more  Japanese Honeysuckle , Fleabane , Cassia by  Woodlands Ck Japanese Honeysuckle    We stay out of WARC Zone 2025 The Day After There's still some weed work at Woodlands Ck to be done & I expect we could plant up to half the Lomandra there. Its likely to be warm & humid so the other planting site/s will be shaded, maybe behind the Blady Grass & some in  Manifest Destiny . Aquarians are called to carry some water for these 2 sites....its your month after all. 2024 Giant Black Rabbit Dig out & bag Montbretia which is flowering in multiple locations.  Up around the Woodlands Ck bend a native vine is overgrowing many of our plantings so an intervention is needed there ...

2026 Back to the creek  It is back to Hewitts where the following delights await: Walk the WARC.....an old style Emu Parade through the WARC forest area removing Moth Vine, Morning Glory ,  Asparagus ,  Nightshade , Social Fund items More thinning of weeds & Persicaria towards the creek edge at Manifest Destiny & Madeira removal under the Coral Tree . Creation of "Mandy's Kinder".......4 infant Moreton Bay Figs around the edges of that Coral Tree. Mandy has raised these beauties from fruit falling at her place. Check on our struggling Banksias behind the  Blady Grass  & free up as required, then weed west to the Title boundary wall. Anyone obsessed with  Japanese Honeysuckle  can keep up the fight along  Woodlands Ck . Weather is expected to be cool with light showers possible. Recent rain may have reawakened some of our bugs & leeches & you-know-who might be warming up if some warm pools of sunshine are on offer, so ...

Quiet Little Drink  If you arrive early and bring a spade we can dig out that bike. Down along  Woodlands Creek is a weed forest (inc.  Montbretia and Bidens Pelosa ) so that's where tomorrow's first worksite will be except for those we delegate on a mission into WARC territory to deal with other miscreants on the way. There are also some small jobs in the  Blady Grass  areas inc.  Purpletop , Fleabane  and the occasional  Lily .  Some struggling plantings needing TLC +water At  Manifest Destiny  there needs to be some selective track clearing to access the Madeira Vine  around and under the cardboard. Stone  Road/Boge Massacre sites have scattered  Purpletop .   2025 Flanagans Creek   We have been officially authorised to begin work at Flanagans Creek & we are part of the New Imperialist Zeitgeist imperilling the Old World Order, and we start tomorrow. I will have the Official Bushcare Sign...

High tide  A 2m high tide around 10.30 am tomorrow but little chance of erosive power given the gentle surf at the moment. Fine & mild forecast so ideal conditions for; attack on The Ditch weeds while/if it remains dry Fleabane , Nightshades & Asparagus across Lisa's Site &  Manifest Destiny . thin out  Persicaria & rescue  Manifest Destiny  plantings. And  Madeira , of course. Sawyers will have some broken branch & dead tree work if they are available. 2025 Weed On At Woodlands Ck, and the Purple Top through to the Blady Grass area could reward our florists, but Manifest Destiny & the shady weeds there will be the main game. Madeira will be top priority but Cape Ivy, Honeysuckle , Crofton & Cassia also need to be driven back. 2024 & 2023 New Years Day 2022 Water needed Please bring some water to apply to our December plantings. Reports are that the odd weed has popped up over the last fortnight.