October 4th week

New Frontier or Two 

Returning to Flanagans Creek. Our advice is to let the sprayed Asparagus wither on the plant for a further time so work inside the 3 coupes back of the beach will be limited to regrowth Morning glory & Asparagus + Turkey Rhubarb where its showing. And general clean-up if needed.

Alycia has encouraged us to start work up the creek where feasible: there's a large Castor Oil plant up by the bridge & some invasive vines along the north bank. Won't really know what we're up against until we have a close look.
I'll bring extra bags again and if the rain holds off a few litres of water will be happily taken in by our plantings. 


Castor Oil plant

2024 Actions on offer include:

2023 Jobs 

Conditions are good for getting in the face of that Honeysuckle Wall we noticed last week.
Elsewhere there are small infestations of Stonecrop & Velcro plant.


Kikuyu is always into the Lomandra & is hiding numerous Lilies.

The Ditch may await our Choppers if its dried out enough but they can look at the Honeysuckle first up.
Some watering  may be useful at Woodlands Ck but showers are likely at the end of the week.

 2022  Raining... postponed

The rain was expected to confine our activities to the Cycleway edge, where our plantings need freeing. An increasing number of Formosan Lilies are showing along our west edge and they should be accessible by the mudrunners.

 2021 Weed of the week

Bidens pilosa and WeedWise fails us;
(the links here go to that plant's Wikipedia page)

Formosan Lily & other baddies along Woodland Ck. 

Another group has a mob of flowering Bidens to bag in the SE corner & there is long grass to remove from plantings nearby. 

A 3rd team of diggers near Condons Corner to deal with a Turkey Rhubarb outbreak. 

If numbers allow, there is Morning Glory on the rise, and long Kikuyu, east side of the Cycleway soon after the bridge

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