Victoria- Black, green & now yellow

[DeeJay]

I just got back from a 1,000 klm trip around N.E Vic & was amazed to see the hills everywhere have turned yellow with Daisies

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/10/1701.jpg


https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/10/1702.jpg

At least the forest is slowly recovering in places.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/10/1703.jpg


And, with the memory of this area as black as, still fresh in my mind, I saw this just out of Melbourne

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/10/1704.jpg


I think its too late for these - and thousands other- tree's

[Sleepy]

Yes Deejay, drove down to Gippsland today - the greenest I have seen it in 10 years. Hope this wet weather persists - I still think we need another 2 months of rain.:(

[ohleaky1]

send some of that wet weather up Toowoomba way ehh ! combined dams total at the moment is around 9.5% . not even able to clean the dust up properly from last weeks couple of dusty days.

[Vern]

Yes Deejay, drove down to Gippsland today - the greenest I have seen it in 10 years. Hope this wet weather persists - I still think we need another 2 months of rain.:(Try living here, all it bloody does is rains:(

[rovercare]

Try living here, all it bloody does is rains:(

Yep, its great:D

But **** it took some adjusting when I got home, brrrrr, cold:eek:

[EchiDna]

daisies or capeweed? looks a lot like the later and if so, most non-bovine stock wont touch it :(

[DeeJay]

daisies or capeweed? looks a lot like the later and if so, most non-bovine stock wont touch it :(

It is capeweed, I had a look at Google images & daisies are white petals with yellow centres. - I've just learnt something:angel:

[Lotz-A-Landies]

daisies or capeweed? looks a lot like the later and if so, most non-bovine stock wont touch it :(Capeweed and fireweed what will the next pest that chemical agri-busanesses like Monsanto, import so we have to use their chemical poisons to limit but not irradicate? :nazilock: :nazilock:

[JDNSW]

Capeweed and fireweed what will the next pest that chemical agri-busanesses like Monsanto, import so we have to use their chemical poisons to limit but not irradicate? :nazilock: :nazilock:

GM Canola now reported to be growing wild along roads in some places.

John

[Rangier Rover]

These types of things are a big problem now with fodder, contract hay makers and harvesters moving about. Even if you strip a machine apart to clean it some will likely remain intact:mad:

[EchiDna]

my family ended up with 80% ground coverage of capeweed back in the mid 80's - some nice dairy farmer donated hay back in 1983 to the ash wednesday fire victims that came with an unwanted seed load - it took 10 years to get rid of it. basically we had to mow it down immediately before flowering for an entire spring/summer growing season and that killed it off... once dry our goats happily ate it, but green they wouldn't touch it, neither would the neighbours horses, donkeys, pigs.... you name it. As bad as patterson's curse!

[953]

my family ended up with 80% ground coverage of capeweed back in the mid 80's - some nice dairy farmer donated hay back in 1983 to the ash wednesday fire victims that came with an unwanted seed load - it took 10 years to get rid of it. basically we had to mow it down immediately before flowering for an entire spring/summer growing season and that killed it off... once dry our goats happily ate it, but green they wouldn't touch it, neither would the neighbours horses, donkeys, pigs.... you name it. As bad as patterson's curse!

You mean salvation jane;):D.
Cheers Dean.