We've had some decent rain. You can see the drops coming down in this photo. 
The first 2 dams are full and the working dam is about 2/3rds full. Garden is looking good, weeds are looking better.
9 April 2007
Rain
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About Me
- Christine
- Welcome to my blog. I come from a line of gardeners who maintained large productive vegetable gardens, which I hated having to help maintain! I married & moved into a tiny little house with a tiny little backyard and promptly planted a gum tree and a Jacaranda! Two years on we moved to an established garden with fertile soil - but longed for more space. Eventually we moved with three aims in mind. We wanted our daughters to grow up with a "free" childhood, able to explore, have pets, make lots of noise and build cubby houses and play, away from the eyes of watchful adults. The second was to have a large garden where I could plant all the trees my heart was set on, grow vegetables and flowers; and the third was to eventually have a garden worthy of inclusion in the Australian Open Garden Scheme. We were ignorant of true gardening, spoilt by earlier fertile soil. We planted - they died. It took years but gradually we learned to build up our soil with manure & lucerne hay. 15 years later we have an expansive garden, vegetable patch, chooks, my beloved trees, shrubs and lots of flowers. I am always amused when visitors comment “You are so lucky to have such fertile soil!”