Serrated Tussock at Isaacs, ACT
Identification history
| Nassella trichotoma | 5 Aug 2021 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Nassella trichotoma | 5 Aug 2021 | Mike |
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Not sure if all this is serrated tussock but there is some seed around.
7 comments
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
5 Aug 2021
Sorry Mike - however mattocking is very effective against serrated tussock
Mike
wrote:
5 Aug 2021
A bobcat or a family of wild pigs is the only way on a patch this size. Otherwise poison.
Paul4K
wrote:
5 Aug 2021
At Boro we've found cutting off the greenery, with pruning saw, and dabbing or spraying glyphosphsate works, extremely tedious however.
Mike
wrote:
5 Aug 2021
There is so much that cutting is not an option. There are many areas I haven't recorded yet. I can use glyphosate here but use flupropanate where I help on a farm.
waltraud
wrote:
24 Nov 2024
Hi Mike
I'd suggest to cut large amounts of STs with whipper snipper before seed development and then spray - we proofed that cut and spray works well (see for instance Nassella trichotoma (Serrated Tussock) and Nassella trichotoma (Serrated Tussock)) and one day, one glorious day in the future, parkcare volunteers will be again able to use whipper snippers. FoMM used their own (exactly the same as PCS) from 2004 onward - first a petrol then, as soon as available, a battery driven - until more than 3 years ago when we were suddenly told out of the blue that we are not allowed to use it anymore. Since 3 years we are promised a solution coming soon so I'm reasonably optimistic that within the next decade volunteers can use whipper snippers after training etc etc. Unfortunately, some of us will be too old and frail by then...
FoMM volunteers use hedge shearers and secateurs but some volunteers have developed tennis elbows, and damaged wrists and backs and can't continue treat ST with these totally inappropriate tools. l consider using inappropriate tools when appropriate tools exist quite humiliating. A cynical comment was that we don't need to do any of this work....
Paul4K
MichaelMulvaney
I'd suggest to cut large amounts of STs with whipper snipper before seed development and then spray - we proofed that cut and spray works well (see for instance Nassella trichotoma (Serrated Tussock) and Nassella trichotoma (Serrated Tussock)) and one day, one glorious day in the future, parkcare volunteers will be again able to use whipper snippers. FoMM used their own (exactly the same as PCS) from 2004 onward - first a petrol then, as soon as available, a battery driven - until more than 3 years ago when we were suddenly told out of the blue that we are not allowed to use it anymore. Since 3 years we are promised a solution coming soon so I'm reasonably optimistic that within the next decade volunteers can use whipper snippers after training etc etc. Unfortunately, some of us will be too old and frail by then...
FoMM volunteers use hedge shearers and secateurs but some volunteers have developed tennis elbows, and damaged wrists and backs and can't continue treat ST with these totally inappropriate tools. l consider using inappropriate tools when appropriate tools exist quite humiliating. A cynical comment was that we don't need to do any of this work....
Paul4K
MichaelMulvaney
Mike
wrote:
24 Nov 2024
Hi Waltraud,
Good to see you are looking at old sightings too. Supposedly, ParkCare volunteers will get trained for power tools around February next year. After three years of aging muscles and lack of practice, I am not sure I want to bother. My great grandfather was a gardener and didn't use power tools, because they hadn't been invented.
Good to see you are looking at old sightings too. Supposedly, ParkCare volunteers will get trained for power tools around February next year. After three years of aging muscles and lack of practice, I am not sure I want to bother. My great grandfather was a gardener and didn't use power tools, because they hadn't been invented.
waltraud
wrote:
2 Dec 2024
yes Mike but then a garden is usually not 500 ha in size which is the the size of Mt Majura nature reserve; our 5 project sites alone, where we work intensively on rehab, are between 3-10ha. Cutting 1 ha with a hedge-shearer is a serious OHS issue and takes ages; it is humiliating too because there are efficient tools which we are not allowed to use after 18 years of operating....
Location information
- Coordinates 149.117305-35.371777
- Maps Isaacs Ridge and Nearby
- Places Isaacs, ACT
Sighting information
- 101 - 1,000 Abundance
- 5 Aug 2021 03:16 PM Recorded on
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Additional information
- 10cm to 30cm Plant height
Species information
- Nassella trichotoma Scientific name
- Serrated Tussock Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Exotic
- Severe weed or pest
- Up to 1360.74m Recorded at altitude
- 760 images trained Machine learning
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