Greetings to Mt Rogers’ carers’ community as, in theory, a new year of twice-monthly Landcare activities begins.
We meet on the fourth Sunday and first Monday of each month with some variations caused by public holidays.
Therefore Sunday 23rd January and Monday 7th February are the dates.
We’ll meet at the Wickens Place, Fraser carpark on Sunday 23rd for a physically distanced chat and then have a walk and weed.
The seven day forecast suggests 27 degrees for next Sunday so if it’s like today a 9am start will be feasible rather than 08.30.
We’ll be targeting specific herbaceous weeds in the quality grassy woodland area north of the carpark. We’ll be able to give identification clues on the day. There are some to pull up and most of them will need their flower-heads cut off and bagged to prevent their thousands of seeds maturing and dispersing. We’ll be able to give identification clues on the day so no prior knowledge is needed….we’ve all learned on the job.
The Landcare group has tools, bags, gaiters and some gloves but if you’d like to bring your own (preferably water-proof) gloves, that’s fine.
You won’t be surprised to read that the weeds and grasses are tall and there’s plenty of pollen and dust around.
If you don’t feel comfortable joining in at this stage that’s understandable and “no worries”.
If you find or feel that your life has “moved on” and you no longer want to be on the email list please let me know.
There still seem to be plenty of people taking walks or cycling around the main path.
Today I did come across one big kangaroo but he elected to unconcernedly hop off giving me a wide berth but there were also many bird calls and numerous butterflies.
In recent weeks a contractor has sprayed St John’s Wort (shown in flower in the photo) for us. He has sprayed huge numbers of the weed near Ginninderra Creek at Latham. It’s the most obvious invasive species around at the moment. Seeds of SJW can lie dormant in the soil for decades.
If you park at “Wickens” the most obvious invasive there is African Love Grass. It’ll be our turn to have this mown again soon no doubt.
Thank you,
Rosemary
6258 4724
