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Welcome to the December edition of our Blackburn Creeklands newsletter. Season’s greetings and a big thank you to our friends, local community and Council for your care and commitment to the Creeklands. We wish you all a safe and relaxing … Continue reading →

For Thursday 21/8, we’ll be back in Kalang Park’s KP-24 moving south from the path. Meet at the Red X please. There are some very good plants going well in there – though under threat from mounting weeds like thistles … Continue reading →

For Thursday 14/8, we’ll be back in Kalang Park’s KP-17 moving westwards from the red X. I can’t stand it any more – that Fumitory has to go! Our babies are being suffocated ! No doubt there are a few … Continue reading →

For our Thursday Team event on 7/8/2025, we have 2 options: sheet mulching (red X) and weeding (Green Xes): For those who want to warm up with some mulch work, we are planning to add another strip to our slow … Continue reading →

For Thursday 31/7, we’re waltzing back to the Billabong doing a further stage of our work 2 weeks ago to protect good plants before we get the spraying done. There’s some fine weeding eg of buttercup to be done on … Continue reading →

Thursday 24/7: it’s all hands on deck to help prepare for the third Community Working Bee on Sunday 27th near the Blacks Walk school gate. We’ll do some weeding, hole-digging and pre-watering ahead of the working bee. Council will assist … Continue reading →

For Thursday 17/7, we’re waltzing back to the Billabong.  There’s quite a lot of weed needing attention: buttercup, oxalis (beginning to flower, blackberry, onion, cleavers… Re the first – we did well with it last time (March) but it has infected … Continue reading →

No working bee this week due to weather conditions – cold, wet, windy – leading to an unsafe work environment!

The plan for tomorrow was to QA the recent CWB work and maybe do some additional watering (!).  Normally that would be done of the day – but some of us had to leave early so as to participate in … Continue reading →

Megan is very happy for the Thursday crew to dig holes and water again (if needed – almost certainly) ahead of Sunday’s Community Working Bee at the red X. There is also plenty of weeding to do in that area … Continue reading →

This week, we are back to Kalang Park KP-5 (the bed we’ve been looking after on the south side of the creek between Laurel Grove and Main Street). The plot is due for a maintenance weed – we haven’t been … Continue reading →

For Thursday 12/6: we’re back to Furness now the watering of new young plantings crisis is (hopefully well) over ! We’ve got plants from last year (and maybe the year before) to tend up on the hill. Meet at the … Continue reading →