Bushcare Hewitts Creek

Daylight Saving takes us back to 8.30 am start.   A Cool Holiday Weeding will be west of the cycleway beyond the Blady Grass & yes, there be Lilies sprouting.    If we have some saw equipped choppers there is more cutting & painting to be done in Manifest Destiny .  Our Bowerbird has moved his bower; still on the edge of Manifest Destiny but with a better view & drainage.  Next week: wollongong.nsw.gov.au/my-community/get-involved/volunteering/rise-and-shine 2022 Jobs on three sites   1. Woodlands Creek edge Japanese honeysuckle - see picture above (bag it) Turkey Rhubarb Cassia Coolatai (bag the seeds) - more of this grass is up the stony road 2. Andrew's site Privet Japanese honeysuckle (bag it) Morning glory  Crofton weed   Cassia    3. Manifest destiny Two large privets Two African Olives Also some Turkey Rhubarb in the Old forest, west side of the cycleway for the first 50m after the bridge.  This week in 2021 Offerings include an assault on baby Privets  

 Back to Spring There were a lot of Croftons in flower last week along the Cycleway so it would be good to get them first up. There are also a few small scale weeding jobs waiting, including renewed acquaintance with the Velcro , Asthma & Stonecrop exotics. Choppers and cutters can do some more of each in Manifest Destiny, backed by some painting by a Poisoner. The Ditch may also be close to dry enough for some overhead chopping. Tomorrow is our last 9am start for a while.  Mon Oct 2nd is a Public Holiday, but if you don't get an invite to picnic with your favourite Union, Bushcare will be on from 8.30. Mon 9/10 is set down as our WCC Rise & Shine Day when Ross brings all the gear & wins the $ prize for NIRAG. Wear your YES badges/T-Shirts the next 3 weeks.   2022 Weed of the week Trad, Tradescantia fluminensis has got away at the creek bend and flowering is almost here. So it will be bags required and careful weeding for 4-5 of us tomorrow because we can't allo

 Watering duties, wakey snakeys & Bushie Heat Warning The priority will be watering from Woodlands Ck of nearby plantings, also some water for our plantings either side of the track. The forecast is for it to climb to 27-28 degrees by 11am so the main focus will be shady work in Manifest Destiny -- some cutting & painting, some Cape Ivy ; Cassia weeding and preparing more small privet areas for cardboarding. If cloud arrives there is Crofton & Polygala in flower in the grass areas beside the cycleway. 2022 Andrew's Site There are at least 10 weeds brought here from colonial times, many of them bitter & twisted. Its more scorched earth weeding than chopping. The Woodlands Ck edge is the other main target: Japanese Honeysuckle, Turk & Cassia are back in business there with a bit of Coolatai Grass also visible. Some Lantana regrowth is showing in our recently planted clearing so some careful cut and paint is needed. 2021 Find the weed flowers We have  Cas

Weed week Asthma weed is regrowing under trees, along track to Steve's beach bag and be wary of respiratory reaction. Woodlands creek ; Honeysuckle regrowth needs pulling/poisoning. Water plantings. SE corner;  Fleabanes , Kikuyu in Lomandras and Morning glory . Also Cape ivy where fence turns. McKellar glade a bit more of a clean out ( Crofton , Polygala and Lantana ). Manifest destiny ; Privet big and little, Cassia , African olive and Cape ivy . Also, with the exception of Mother-of-millions , which may have been eradicated, hunt down and bag/destroy any of the weeds listed below for this week in the previous years. 2022 Weed week As you can see from last year (below) this week is weed week. 2021 target weeds Mother-of-millions (Bryophyllum species) There was an outbreak at Condon's Corner & points adjacent Ochna (Ochna serrulata)   Fleabane , (Conyza species) Burr clover (Medicago polymorpha) near the bridge at the Meeting point Morning glory - coastal (Ipom

The website's second year  As explained last year below is what we did last year. It is the same time of year so the weeds listed for previous years will again be showing themselves. Maybe some have been eradicated, it is worth checking. Big blackberry now with unfettered access. Near there are baby Crinum lilies to relocate and Crofton weed in flower (bag flowers). Condon's corner has Turkey rhubarb sprouting under dead coast wattle. Try to remove Turk corms. NE Corner ; between three ancient fence posts cut back Lantana - but leave screen. A regrowth of African olives needs to be chopped and poisoned. 2022 Celebrating the end of the first year of this blog From here our postings show this years work and the work done in the previous years on this week. We start with this week because the website started this week in 2021. 2021 Target weeds On the grassy area to the west of the cycleway; a variety of bulbs including Montbretia . Towards the back of the beach ;  Morning