Hi all,

I've moved in with my father at his rural property to help him out due to his poor health. After the recent bushfires pretty much everything around the house was ash and dirt/sand.

Now that things have more or less regenerated we've been noticing alot of fireweed cropping up on our block, in the neighbouring council blocks and in the national park behind our block. My father has been in and out of hospital most of this year and maintenance of the property was a secondary concern but now that things are settling down I am trying to play catchup. I have been walking around hand pulling and bagging any fireweed I can find but some of the weeds have grown into large bushes covered in seeding head that goes flying everywhere when handled.

Is there anything I could do to reduce amount of seed that escapes when removing the weeds? Or is it just a matter of waiting for those seeds to grow and pulling them before they get out of hand again?