Thursday, October 30, 2008

Now, THIS is Fitzroy Style ....

Remember how I have been watering my front yard and being very successful at growing an amazing crop of weeds? Well, those weeds are bindi-eye .. dreadfully painful things to stand on.

Too many, it seems, to spray or just pull out. Oh no, we needed some other method of eradication ... Fitzroy Style.

The blokes who work for our Environment Department have taken me under their wing, or at least my front yard, anyway. One of the guys, Paddy, came up with the most unique method of weed control I have ever seen.


The theory is, cover all the clusters of weeds with black plastic (although they ran out of that and used carpet, wood, anything they could lay their hands on at the tip), and suffocate the blighters! Paddy assures me, after a week of this treatment in our heat, all those weeds will be ready to be raked up easily! We shall see ....

So ... my Patchwork Yard.
(How sweet are these guys, hey?)

'till next time XX

3 comments:

Unknown said...

That is a pretty good idea, actually. Will you replace the weeds with grass or green rocks?

Noela said...

Green rocks, of course Daniel. You will paint them all for me, right?

Unknown said...

If it means a trip to the gorge, then yeah I'll paint all by hand. :)