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For Thursday 5/6: following Sunday’s Community Working Bee, we ran out of plants and so there are empty holes which need filling. Other tasks to do there are: QA the CWB planting, weeding the overflow pond, weeding a bracken area … Continue reading →

For Thursday 29/5, following a site inspection – we have decided to do some prep work for Sunday’s Community Working Bee – some preliminary hole-digging, watering as well as some weeding. The patch is to the west of the track … Continue reading →

For Thursday 22/5, a general weed in Furness FP-11. We haven’t been there since January – but Greg has been keeping things ticking along. There is a PV “grassy knoll” which needs particular attention – possibly another cardboard suppression needed … Continue reading →

This week, we’ll return to BW-32 near the Garie Street playground and our boardroom table for a regular maintenance weed. Some weeds have returned there including some barely recovering Wandering Trad clumps. There’s also a small area that seems to … Continue reading →

Fresh from our workshop with George Paras, we’ll dive straight in to one of the reveg tasks he recommended – hand weeding small patches of Couch, Oxalis, Cleavers, Ivy, emergent Angled Onions etc in the KP-20 project area. This will … Continue reading →

For Thursday 24/4, we return to KP-3 in Kalang Park at the foot of Laurel Grove North going eastwards. The western end of the bed is pretty clean excepting the very end which needs a quick weed. The new plantings … Continue reading →

For Thursday 17/4, we shall be back in Blacks Walk again – aiming to weed out the small bed BW-33 – then do the priority work in BW-27 while keeping out of the sun. We’ll meet near BW-33 on the … Continue reading →

For Thursday 10/4, we shall be back in Blacks Walk – aiming to complete the original plan for last week. There might be a bit more to do in BW-35 – then we’ll hit BW-27 and BW-33. We need to … Continue reading →

For Thursday 3/4, we shall be back in Blacks Walk.  Due to John being ill, Megan will be supervising perhaps with Graeme managing the logistics of getting tools to the site. Depending on numbers, we plan to do a maintenance weed … Continue reading →

For Thursday 27/3, we shall waltz back to the Billabong.  The usual suspects there are involved – Panic Veldt, European Black Nightshade, Buttercup, Drain Sedge etc – but especially Couch. The latter is almost impossible to weed out once it becomes … Continue reading →

For Thursday 20/3, Blacks Walk gets a guernsey! This will involve a maintenance weed in BW-7, BW-6 and BW-1 – just west and north of the Scout Hall. BW-1 is the new area planted up in one of last year’s … Continue reading →

For Thursday 13/3, we’ll be back in Kalang Park’s KP-17 moving eastwards from where we left off the week before last. This will involve a maintenance weed there with Panic Veldt needing the seed snip and cut-out process we’ve been … Continue reading →

For Thursday 6/3, we’ll venture north of the creek into Kalang Park’s KP-9. This will involve a maintenance weed there and another round of trad pull-back – to the creek bank in some cases. We’ll weed the exposed ground before … Continue reading →

For Thursday 27/2, we’ll more maintenance weeding in Kalang Park’s KP-17. We’ll start around the Volunteers’ Plaque and extend the maintained area back another 2-3 metres while leaf mulching any bare patches (green arrow below). We’ll move eastwards where some … Continue reading →

For Thursday 20/2, we’ll do a maintenance weed in Kalang Park’s KP-8. Recent high winds have brought down some branches in the zone eg covering our nice Dichondra patch – so we’ll clean them up first to save our plants … Continue reading →

No working bee on Thursday 13/2/2025 – TOTAL FIRE BAN declared. See you next week!