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This week, we are back to the Billabong with one primary target – Angled Onion in the area around the secondary pond (red X) where it is launching a take-over bid and which we didn’t quite reach last week. We’ll … Continue reading →

This week, we are back to the Billabong with two primary targets – Angled Onion in the area around the secondary pond (red X) and fumitory along the track – especially on the southern side (purple X). There should be … Continue reading →

Understandably, we haven’t heard back from Karen from Council re the next stages of work at KP-24 – so we’re safe to keep going for one more visit there. Council would be very busy on cleaning up the storm damage … Continue reading →

On Thursday 29/8, we’ll continue last week’s hand-weeding work in KP-24 – the usual suspects, Fumitory, Panic Veldt etc. We will be down on numbers this week – so as many hands as possible would be very welcome. Karen from … Continue reading →

On Thursday 22/8, we’ll be hand-weeding in KP-24 – the usual suspects, Fumitory, Panic Veldt etc. Karen from Council has kindly offered to spray out the more feral parts of the site soon – in return, I offered our services … Continue reading →

On Thursday 15/8, we’ll be sheet mulching in the north-east quadrant of the bed adjacent to the Garie Street playground in Blacks Walk. Although we weeded out most of the patch last time we were on-site, there’s some weeding to … Continue reading →

We’re revisiting the plan for last week excepting the late start – comparatively balmy weather expected this week! Sorry about the sudden cancellation due to my food poisoning – I hope no-one was unduly inconvenienced other than Andy. The plan … Continue reading →

Owing to the expected low temperatures – we will start late at 09:30. The plan for this coming Thursday morning is to weed KP-17 – around the good plants for follow-up by Dutch Hoers and/or Council spraying as needed. Should … Continue reading →

The plan for Thursday, 25/7/2024 is to do prep for this year’s National Tree Day event a Community Working Bee scheduled for Sunday 28/7. There are two aspects: We’ll meet near the Noticeboard close to the Pakenham Street entrance to … Continue reading →

The plan for Thursday, 18/7/2024 is to do a maintenance weed in FP-14. This is a Council zone but we undertook to maintain the new plants there that were planted in our National Tree Day event in July, last year. … Continue reading →

The plan for the 11th July is to finish weeding out the southern portion of BW-32 (adjacent the Garie Street playground) and then do some planting. Megan has some left-overs from last Sunday’s community working bee and I have some … Continue reading →

It is going to be very cold tomorrow morning (like today with the likelihood of frost) – so we are going to start late!  09:30 – 12:30 .  This is the first time we’ve needed to do this in my 13 years … Continue reading →

The KP-9 needs a good weed before the Fumitory and Angled Onions flower. We’ll also have a go at a further incremental roll-back of the trad there for eventual planting up. We’ll assess whether we need to perform another sheet … Continue reading →

The KP-3 zone has rather a long tail to the east which we’ve overlooked somewhat. The plan for Thursday, 13/6/2024 is to weed the tail out from the boundary of last year’s plantings to KP-3’s eastern limit. We’ll weed what … Continue reading →

The numbers at the Community Working Bee on 2/6 did not warrant splitting the group into the site at KP-8 for in-fill planting.  Therefore, we’ll do that work at this Thursday’s working bee with the plants reserved for that purpose. … Continue reading →

KP-3 will be the site of this coming Sunday’s (2/6) Community Working Bee. Our role for 30/5 is to do some prep work ahead of that (such as pre-digging) in sensitive or difficult areas. We’ll also weed backwards from the … Continue reading →

This working bee will be weeding-only with the main focus on KP-8. Our plan is to have the KP-8 bed available for in-fill planting should too many people show up for Megan’s Community Working Bee on 2/6 in the nearby KP-3.  … Continue reading →