Along with a willingness to tackle the weeds in our local reserves the landcare line-up are keen to share their weedy wisdom with all those who have been beating about their bushy backyards over the past few months. At 10am each Thursday there’s an opportunity to bring your weeds (or natives) along to the landcare morning tea and find out what you’ve got growing and if it’s friend or foe.
The landcare locations are mentioned in the Chronicle and the exact location details can be found on the online calendar or by ringing or leaving a message with John or Lois 4959 5863.
Burnage Carnage:
Whilst landcarers have not been permitted to work in the reserves it was truly distressing to find that someone had been giving Burnage Reserve a workout.
Dumping of household rubbish, destruction of trees that had been nurtured for years and the mass movement of soil to create a bike jump have left the volunteer landcarers saddened as they prepare to return to activity and prepare Burnage reserve for a National Tree Day planting on 2nd August, if COVID conditions allow.
Help keep Coal Point Barleria free.
It's always that time of year to tackle Barleria, it never rests and has the potential to be a massive problem. - Individual plants and stems can be manually removed, taking care to ensure that as little as possible of the root system is left behind.
- If total removal is difficult, the removal of flowers and immature fruit will help reduce new infestations.
- Do not add the weeds to your garden compost unless you can leave them in a bin of water for 3 months (to kill the seeds) before re-using.
- Thicker stems can be scraped and painted with undiluted Glyphosate.
- Or you can you can spray foliage with diluted herbicide. As the leaves are shiny, mixing in a surfactant will improve results. (Some brands already include it.)
- Regularly spot spray re-emerging seedlings for a year.
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