Playing with plants

Landcarer’s recognised

At the recent 2023 Environmental Excellence in Landcare Awards, two of our regular landcare crew were recognised with the Landcare Achievers award. Congratulations Ros Cornish and Kathy Gall, and sincere thanks for your weekly contributions to caring for our local environment.

We are extremely fortunate to have a highly talented and knowledgeable landcare group that gathers every Thursday to assist our precious bushland reserves in their quest for survival against a backdrop of weed invasions, climate change and fragmentation.

Our Landcare team is on the front line of addressing biodiversity loss locally. They are seeing the changes in weeding and seeding, noticing the arrivals of new threats, and the changing seasonal growth patterns of old ones. It is the Landcare team that extracts the dumped garden waste, from the public reserves, that threaten the survival of local plants by taking soil space, water, light and nutrients from the native plants.

Most of our bushland restoration activities can be traced back to dealing with dumped garden waste. The recent dumping of succulents on the west ridge, west of the school on the lower track, meant another day’s work, just when we thought we were making progress from the garden escapees that had been rambling down the hill.

Council’s Green Waste bin is the perfect place for garden waste.

Our bushland needs all the help it can get if it is going to survive into the future with shifting and extreme weather. Please help us to help protect the abundant variety of plant life we have, that supports the mix of birds and animals we enjoy. Bin it, don’t dump it.

CPPA President - Suzanne Pritchard

Local Landcaring Locations

Want to join Us? Lots of information about what we do and where we do it is here.
If you would like to receive weekly emails about where we are landcaring and what we will be doing? email cppalandcare@gmail.com

Tools & techniques provided
Morning tea at 10am

• 18/1 Hampton St Link
• 25/1/West Ridge
• 1/2 -Hampton St Link
• 8/2 -West Ridge
• 15/2 - Ambrose St
• 22/2 -Burnage

Crocodile Point

1st & 3rd Wed  8:30-10am. 

Meet under the Fennel Bay bridge

December Gardening 🌸

• It’s going to be a hot summer so make the most of mulch on your garden beds.
• Water in the late afternoon so the plants can benefit from the water overnight.
• Net your fruit trees to prevent bats, possums, birds and/or rats from damaging the fruit.
• What’s ready to pick..well I am harvesting rhubarb, blueberries, strawberries, shallots, lettuce, a variety of herbs and tomatoes. Hope you are harvesting from your garden too.
• If you want to sow some seeds summer is a good time for beans, cabbage, capsicum, carrots, celery, chicory, cucumber, eggplants, endive, lettuce, melons, potatoes, pumpkin, radish, silverbeet, spring onions, sweet corn and tomatoes. (https://www.hunterorganicgrowerssociety.org.au/growers-guide)

CPPA Committee - Selma Barry