Following from our successful Easter weed blitz, MERRA is organising a spring follow-up, with a skip available to take your pest weeds this coming Labour Weekend, 26-28 October 2024.
Pest weeds are those considered to be invasive and a threat to our environment if not controlled. We are again targeting Wild Ginger, Woolly Nightshade (tobacco plant) and Agapanthas (flower stems only please). You should also be on the lookout for monkey apple, cotoneaster, Chinese privet, tradescantia, moth plant, gorse, jasmine, and bush lawyer.
For information on what these species look like, and how best to dispose of them, check out the MERRA plant pest information here, or the Auckland Council website here.
Arrangements are the same as last time: we will have a 9m3 Northland Waste skip placed on the gravel patch leading to the stock yard at Rosedale (9 Charles Street) from Saturday 26th to Monday 28th October. Residents are welcome to dispose of your pest weeds into the skip over the long weekend.
For this initiative to succeed, it’s really important that we only use the skip to dispose of pest weeds. Please do not dispose of any plastic bags (your weeds need to be emptied out), household rubbish, construction rubbish, garden rubbish especially flax, cabbage tree fronds, grass clippings, prunings and weeds (excluding pest weeds). In short, if you see it on the website links above you can put it in the bin. NOTHING ELSE, no exceptions.
Please also respect the area surrounding the bin and keep it tidy.
Should you want to make a head start, fill up plastic bags ready for when the bin is available. If you’re unsure how to treat and dispose of pest weeds, give Chris Russell a call on 027 4933881.
MERRA acknowledges the support of Northland Waste and Chris and Helen Russell for this initiative.