Dig up small Wheel Cactus plants and dispose of them FREE at the Maldon Tip Thanks to renewed funding from Mount Alexander Shire Council, Wheel Cactus plants can still be disposed of FREE at the Maldon Transfer Station. This is a great incentive to dig up Wheel Cactus plants, especially...
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Dig up Wheel Cactus plants and dispose of them FREE at Maldon Tip Wheel Cactus plants can still be disposed of FREE at the Maldon Transfer Station before the end of June (thanks to funding from Mt. Alexander Shire Council). This is a great incentive to dig up Wheel Cactus...
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Wheel Cactus plant compromised by Cochineal insects. During 2019 our committee members completed a project with the goal of improving control of Wheel Cactus infestations. The project was titled 'A multi-pronged strategy for Wheel Control control' and was funded by Landcare Victoria Inc. Because after many years of using direct...
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Sign at Maldon Transfer Station Thanks to renewed funding from Mount Alexander Shire Council, Wheel Cactus plants can again be disposed of FREE at the Maldon Transfer Station. This is a great incentive to dig up Wheel Cactus plants while they’re still small and before they’ve started producing fruit and...
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For the past 5 years the Tarrangower Cactus Control Group (TCCG) has received funding from the Mt. Alexander Shire Council to provide free disposal of Wheel Cactus plants at the Maldon Transfer Station. This is to make it easier and encourage our local community members to manually dig up and...
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Thanks to ongoing funding from Mount Alexander Shire Council, the Tarrangower Cactus Control Group has been able to provide free loans of injector kits to many local landholders over the past 12 years. This has been a strong incentive to control Wheel Cactus on private properties and to be a...
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The Tarrangower Cactus Control Group (TCCG) has recently been awarded a grant from the Norman Wettenhall Foundation (NWF) which will enable us to map wheel cactus infestations within Victoria. We sincerely thank the NWF and are very pleased to receive this funding, hoping the results of this project will be…
The Tarrangower Cactus Control Group would like to say thank you very much to all the volunteers who have helped attack wheel cactus during 2014. We’ve held eight hugely successful Community Field Days during the past year, with record numbers of local volunteers helping us to control the spread of…
