too many wallabies

The black swamp wallaby, Wallabia bicolor, lives next door to us in the Conservation Park. Wikpedia says: "The swamp wallaby is found from the northernmost areas of Cape York to south-western Victoria

It was formerly found through to south-eastern South Australia but is now rare or absent from that region."

Rubbish!

 

There's heaps of them, mostly to be found eating our lawn and hurling themselves in front of cars on the road.

 

It was cute to start with - hearing the clatter of toenails on the beach deck as they knocked over chairs to get at the water we leave there for the cat.

Then one morning there was NOTHING left of 5 large geranium maderense plants; the next day it was an entire large rhubarb plant gone; then judicious pruning of hares' foot fern and butterfly bushes (which I imagine to be dessert.)

 

Challenge: find nice plants that they won't eat - maybe holly?

 

early morning - at least it's not eating the hardenbergia which is growing beautifully on the screen

 

 

The tunnel house continues to produce rivers of cucumbers - and the odd one that gets away by hiding under a leaf - tomatoes, baby capsicums, zucchini and button squash. The kipfler potatoes are growing outside in almost pure sand and I harvest (no need to dig) just enough for a meal. Beans haven't been good, probably the soil is lacking loam.

 

 

the big cucumber went into the compost