June 3rd week

Turkiye Rhubarb

Back to Hewitts tomorrow with a tapas style menu:

• Protect & repair 2 Deer damaged Banksias on Stony Road. 
  I hope we get a delivery of some wire rolls.
• Lantana, Cassia, Coolatai, Bidens et al at Woody Ck. There were 4 Black Cockies on Sunday.
• Cape Ivy to be bagged or hung, the usual weed salad at Manifest Destiny. 
  Also, if feasible, cut & bag African Olive seeds from tree.
• More Tuckeroo culling behind Blady Grass & potentially in the WARC Zone forest
• Cassia pod bagging east edge of Nicholsland Park.

2025 Up the Coast 

Time for a change of scenery further north....at Flanagans Creek. 

Among the almost tropical activities on offer will be:

• chopping up dead lantana & preparing a planting site (towards the creek end)
• continued Morning Glory & Turkey removal from Lomandras & bagging the Morning Glory
• attacks on the 2 Acacia saligna (Western Australian weed wattles) either by frilling & poison or by battery chainsaw, if that's feasible.
• more Morning Glory ground level roll ups & bagging
• bag the berries & dig it out.....yes, the Asparagi await.

Please bring your big bags with you & I'll bring extras to leave for the WCC pick up. 
We'll return to the site on 30/6 so these next 2 hits could have quite a visual impact on Coupe 1 (the north most third).

2024 Big surf hits the beach

The line where the beach meets the bush may need a clean-up.
Previous year's work lists should be revisited.

2023 Weed War

On the North-West Front (Andrew's Mistake) we encounter the Alliance of Evil, & the Southern Front (Woodlands Ck) the Honeysuckle Menace.

One day, when Hewitts Ck lagoon has drained, we may even crest the mound, cross the ditch & advance into Lisa's site.

The idea is to use this time of diminished growth to defeat/set back our enemy species before Spring encourages them to break out.
Secateurs, bags & a few choppers will be required. Conditions forecast to be sunny, cool, breezy.
There may be a nice job available cutting off millions of Privet seeds,

2022 Attacks 

Four weeding sites. And, for those who wish to forge a lasting track through

Weeders will need to bag Coolatai Grass seed heads & whole Mother of Millions plants.

We have a couple of edges along the forested part of the Cycleway where a more forbidding border should help conserve the better areas of our site so I'm suggesting we divide some of our Lomandras and plant out the off-cuts. I hope that will give quicker & better results than baby Lomandras from the Botanical Gardens. I've also seen a bright shelter & nesting idea for dead/fallen timber which we could use on our big African Olives & Privets.