Preparing the Ground
Marriotts Falls Track and Tyenna River Plantings
Saturday 15 July 2017
Our work today was twofold, preparing a site for planting and protecting plants being heavily grazed.
The planting site is along the track to Marriotts Falls where there is
an open area previously cleared for farming. Children from Westerway Primary
School will put in plants native to the area as a national Tree day
project. Some 140 holes were prepared in
what is a quite sandy soil which was surprisingly dry.
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| At the planting site on Marriotts Digging the holes for plants Sue, Dianna and Gaye |
Whilst there a Holly tree was cut down but another bigger one was left for another day. One had strikingly yellow berries whilst the others were more an orange shade.
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| Improving the guards for the plnats Tyenna River at workshop area Mount Field, Gaye, Dianna & Sue |
With the holes out of the way, we moved to the Tyenna River plantings
near the Mount Field National Park workshop to tackle the aggressive grazing of
wallabies. The plants were put in during
November 2015 and had been doing OK but wallaby grazing was taking a toll. Once section had additional tree guards
added to the top of existing ones but on those not done the wallaby were simply
forcing down the plastic guards to get at the plants. Firmer hard plastic guards were added to
increase the protection height and secured with cable ties.
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| Double guarded plants badly grazed by wallabies |
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