I for one welcome our new capeweed overlords

I’ve got one of these at home for those fleshy lawn invaders:
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Not quite a flamethrower, but bloody satisfying nonetheless. It’s death to any weed with enough moisture in its composition, and practically organic too. *grins*

lets get some agent orange up in this motherf*cker

Since they’re illegal immigrants we’ll be jailing, er, I mean processing them, in Nauru, yes?

davesact said :

I would say the horse has already bolted when it comes to eradicating capeweep. Do we really want large scale applications of Herbicide all over the Territory in an effort to control it now? Canberra is one big watershed and the chemicals applied in volumes large enough to have any substancial impact would eventually (and detrimentally) flush into the Murrumbidgee.

Problem is that every key weed is treated the same way. Left as being not significant until such time as it is deemed significant, but alas too far gone to do antyhing about. Imagine if every government problem was dealt with that way?

And to add to the insult, we have TAM’s and the LDA’s preferred method of hydromulching all new earthworks being to spray out the cheapest crap straw they can buy, replete with every weed under the sun. They are literally propogating Patto, Capeweed and every other mongrel weed.

Roundup, the gardener’s friend 🙂

davecdp said :

The only problem i have with them is that they attract bee’s and our dog loves to try and catch them which will probably not go well if she does actually get one.

Bees seem to like Capeweed however I reckon it makes them a bit aggressive and the honey is revolting, almost as bad as honey off canola. Have not seen any Paterson’s Curse around this year.

I think they’re pretty. But they get pollen all over shoes when you walk through them.

Baby Triffids

Capeweed is an amazing beast.

You can mow you lawn one day – deliberately lowering the cutting action, thinking you’ve got them all, only to find that the very next day your lawn is covered with smiling yellow flowers again.

How do they do that?

davecdp said :

The only problem i have with them is that they attract bee’s and our dog loves to try and catch them which will probably not go well if she does actually get one.

So what? You’re going to release the dogs? Or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees at you? Do your worst!