This month, we will work at the Fair project site in north Watson, starting at 9 am and working until noon. Come early for an introduction and give what time you can spare. When: Sunday, 28 November 9 am – noon. Where: Meet at the volunteer registration point at the…
Friends of Mount Majura (FoMM) are certainly not hibernating during winter. Please join us for a massacre to tackle horehound in the paddock north of the Hackett water tank. Give as much or as little time as you want and be amazed at what you can achieve. When: Sunday 18…
Horehound, Marrubium vulgare was the most prevalent herbaceous weed in the southern part of the Majura paddock, a 7 ha area of originally grassy woodland that had been heavily degraded by horse holding. Growing in a monoculture and excluding native herbs, the perennial horehound covered an area of approximately 2…
Join the Friends of Mt Majura work party to follow up on the control of woody weeds in the nature reserve behind Mackenzie Street. The targets will be Cootamundra Wattle and Sweet Briar Rose and any non-native garden escape that we can reliably identify. With the end of daylight saving,…
Give Mount Majura a helping hand. One of our target weeds – Paterson’s Curse – keeps germinating from a large seed bank in the soil due to conditions that are favourable for this pesky purple pest. Fortunately, we can build on the efforts of volunteers who began weeding in late…
Please come and help remove the rampant Cleavers (Sticky weeds) at a lovely site with old-growth Yellow Box trees. Members of the Australian Conservation Foundation joined FoMM volunteers last Sunday and together we cleaned up two-thirds of the Cleavers as well as many Slender thistles, Sowthistles, Indian Hedge Mustard and…
Weeds have such a good run this season. Cleavers or Sticky weeds, in particular, are taking over and smothering native plants. Please come and give hand at the Friends of Mt Majura working party on Sunday, 15 November and help remove Cleavers and other herbaceous weeds around the drainage ditch…
Rain since late summer has brought about the good, the bad and the ugly of Mt Majura. Whilst we experience a bumper season of native wildflowers*, the weeds, unfortunately, are rampant too. The best we can achieve is a reduction of seeding weeds at sites where we have already invested…
Following terrific hand weeding sessions in June, the Friends of Mt Majura (FoMM) will be hosting another set of hand weeding sessions on each Sunday in September from 1 pm to 4 pm to tackle herbaceous weeds at various grassy woodland sites on Mt Majura. Our next hand weeding session…
Coming up Weed Swap: Weekend 2 & 3 November 2019, from 8.30am to 4.45pm Weed Swap is a joint initiative of the Australian Native Plants Society and the ACT Government to encourage residents to remove woody weeds from their gardens, safely dispose them and select free Australian native plants as an…
