Weeds are wrecking our natural areas - bush, coastal areas, wetlands, and parks and reserves – by crowding and smothering out the native plants that should be growing there. Many of these weedy ornamental species are still growing in peoples’ gardens, and are spread into natural areas by birds, wind and the dumping of garden waste.
Spring is the perfect time to get into the garden and have a clear out in time for a new planting season. During spring each year, Weedbusters encourages gardeners to ‘have a dirty weekend in their own backyard’, by identifying any weedy ornamental species that might be growing on their properties, and replacing them with non-weedy alternatives from local garden centres.
Register now for your Dirty Weekend pack, and be in to win!
Everyone who registers here during September 2010 receives a copy of the ‘Plant Me Instead’ booklet for their region*, a copy of the ‘Weedbusting’ booklet, and is automatically entered into the draw for a Gardening New Zealand gift card loaded with $500! If you are the lucky winner, and have chosen to tell us on the registration form (in 300 words or less) about your efforts to make your place a weedfree space, this gift card value is doubled to $1000.
The first 50 registrants also get a FREE full-colour 2011 Weedbusters Calendar.
*Weedbusters Plant Me Instead booklets are not available for Northland, Auckland and Wellington. Central Districts booklet goes to print end of September and will be posted out then.
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Dirty Weekend Events in Your Region - Wanganui-Manawatu
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Diary of a Dirty Weekend
30 Oct, 2008
Mucky Month of Weeding Author:Danielle - Auckland Spring has sprung and all the weeds that grew so slowly throughout winter came on very fast for us and our Dirty Weekend turned into a downright Mucky Month.
30 Oct, 2008
Clearing and Re-planting a Bank Author:Beth - Wellington We spent some time in October tackling a 50sq.mtr bank covered in Tradescantia, hemlock and bindweed.
30 Oct, 2008
Clearing an overgrown garden Author:Sharlene - Wellington As the new owners of our recently purchased property, we climbed through the overgrown garden and discovered that there were 3 levels of retaining walls up the hill which we couldn't even see through the horrific wild blackberry!!
30 Oct, 2008
From weeds to potato patch Author:Sarah My husband spent loads of time on the weekend clearing out forget-me-knots and chickweed from a patch about 9m squared, ...
30 Oct, 2008
Birthday present of weeding Author:Deidre - Canterbury This year we gave a "dirty weekend" to our friend for his birthday.
30 Oct, 2008
Weeding Neighbouring Property too! Author:Glenda - Auckland We have worked hard to improve the land we live on and the neighbouring vacant section.
30 Oct, 2008
Huge effort over a whole month Author:Pauline - Auckland My neighbour Mike's property, which borders with mine, had never been "looked at " for over 30 years, and many of the original garden plants were now weed problems.
30 Oct, 2008
Section clearing & re-planting continuing Author:Lance - Hamilton On our October "Dirty Weekend" list was to get rid of the rest of the aluminium weed and replace it with more hostas and fuchsias.
30 Oct, 2008
Big Garden Clearout Author:Catherine - Southland In October, we decided to spend our dirty weekend removing silver birch from the garden. They lined the drive and were beautiful, but created problems for the allergy sufferers in the family.
30 Oct, 2008
Clearing sand dunes Author:Edith - Bay of Plenty When we purchased this beach front property in 1979 we all used the very front of our sections,which blend with the sand dunes as our dumping ground for all our garden rubbish. As the years have rolled by we like a lot of other New Zealanders have become aware of the impact on the sand dunes.
30 Oct, 2008
Weeding Grandfather's Garden Author:Liana My partner and I spent Labour Weekend weeding my grandfather's backyard along the back fence line.
