Hardwicke Bay Revegetation Project

Day 8 15th March

Today we were told that we would be helping with the revegetation around Hardwicke Bay. We were told about how most of the plants that became weeds were brought from foreign countries for gardens. However there are also some that snuck into Australia. One species of weed stuck to the bottom of a boat going to Australia and when the boat unloaded its cargo and left the weed fell off the boat and ended up floating to shore a spreading seeds from there. After hearing this i was surprised at how many gardens around the place still had these weeds growing in there gardens. Even though we were told that it was going to be a revegetation project we ended up going to a house and pulling out a lot of dead plants and certain less reproductive weeds. We didnt have to worry with these plants but we were told that with a lot of the weeds if you broke part of them off and let it find soil it would grow to become another weed. We were also shown a weed that was covered in seeds. If you broke part of it off then about twenty seeds would come off it as well. I commented after cleaning up on how i should really have taken a before and after photo to show just how much work we had done. Because i forgot this though ill just have to say that by the time we had finished cleaning up the garden it looked half the size it was before because of all of the dead plants no longer cluttering it up.