We either seem to get too much or not enough!

Im with goldilocks at the moment our rain is "jusst right" The roses are perky the lawn is green ,all right I will admit the weeds are growing as I write.
Its a shame that you cant put the exess in a holding tank for another day (like mid february) Cheers at least you dont have to water.

Well I know we got another 19mm this afternoon THANKS HUEY
But I would not mind a bit more, because we got it slow and steady this time it is soaking in.
Where is usually heaves down and runs into the gutters or the lake around the next street.
So when I buy my Oil Tanker I will sail down south and collect it. Lucky You...Cheers..MM.

The weather man got it right for a change........we had a torrential downpour this afternoon. Scared the #*@^ out of the cats who were sleeping so peacefully on the covered deck.

Only drawback was it flattened my just opening roses that I was hoping to get some piccies of in the morning. Life isn't fair some days is it.

As it's supposed to rain all weekend we will be saying the same as you Sparaxis.............Free water:))

Cathy

I heard on the news tonight that we have had the wettest winter for 10 years, this winter. Still only something like 41% in the dams though, but at least it gives hope that we may get good falls in future years.

I would love a problem like that for a week or two.
We have had 15 mls of rain over the last week, lovely soaking rain and the garden is looking happy and the grass,[ don't call it lawn here] is green but we need a good run in the dam to fill it up for a long hot summer.
I am sorry your plants are feeling it, it is sad after waiting so long for the flowers.
Marion

Free water

Well only if we could add some acohol to it and it would be very easy to get rid of . I certainly would take some off your hands

But I guess this would spoil the taste of good water ay It's getting very hot here at this end of the rake , but I think we will survive a snother day to mow the lawn and pull weeds

I never complain about too much rain as I feel we might jinx it after the terrible drought that some places are still not free of
Jan.

Got 98mm last saturday. Another 4mm last night. Which so far takes it to over 170 for the month to date. Which is a lot better than last year's lousy 27mm during the drought. The pasture is growing like no tomorrow. Definitely need gumboots to walk out into the paddocks. Going to be a great year for hay. The pears have finished flowering but the apples and lilacs are still in full bloom. Another couple of weeks and the elders will be in flower. The spuds have come up. The broad beans are in flower and the tomato and zucchini seedlings are just about to go in outside. A wonderful spring.

Actually, we could do with a bit more here - can never have too much rain! Send it over the hill and stop being so greedy ;-) (Besides, if it stops raining, I will have to go out and do some mowing... all 7 acres of it... with trees everywhere to mow around!)

Why after I just layed a new lawn in a not so sunny area, has it rained again and again at night. Yes phase 2 water restrictions, wet grass leaves at night, fungus come get me.

Haven't had much here yet. Missed all the storms the other night though lucky in one way that we didn't get the damage either. Only had 3mm this week and the tank is only half full. Been enough rain to make the plants grow including the lawn - gotta get that mower out again, only mowed last Saturday and it's around my ankles again.

Ditto, goldhills, we live just over the hill from Sparaxis, and we see the storms over her garden, then they sort-of brush past us and drop a sprinkle... We shouldn't complain really - the tanks are full, the dams are full and the grass is growing like there is no tomorrow (Well I should be able to complain about that! I'm the one who mows the grass...) It has been almost tropical down here in south western Victoria. Everything is grwoing like crazy.

We've got plenty to spare too - rivers flooding around here and b*&^&* big logs floating down the river to litter the beach. I wouldn't mind if it warmed up a bit - I've got onion and potato soup growing or rather not growing, celery that's gone on strike with cold feet and the rest of the garden growing weeds while it waits to be planted. Roll on 16th November when thnigs might change.
Cosmic

sending self addressed snap lock bags Jan - I will take all the rain you don't want and more. Have only one request, could you arrange it to pour at night and sunshine in the day please. After being away for weeks, It's no fun weeding 6ft weeds in the rain .
I waited all year to see my seedling DL's flower-so wet they never had a chance to show me their colours.
cheers Mrs B

Welcome back to the list Mrs B. Hope you are feeling well. Why is it that, if the weeds can grow that tall, the irises and daylilies can't manage the same?

For a newcomer's perspective, i'm actually learning something new each time there's a change in the environment, i.e. wet weather at the moment, and am finding it pleasantly enlightening. Of course I'm such a new gardener that i'm always learning and many things easily impress me :) :)

Anyway the wet weather caused my peach tree problems this season, (leaf curl, oh well %-)) when I didn't have too spray it last year. But it's also so nice to see things moist for a change. I'd like to think the plants are lapping it all up happily (if they manage not to drown that is...) :) Oh, and I always find the different kinds of weeds that pop up out of nowhere very fascinating. And then I struggle to get them out of course, but that's a different story ;)

PS: hope for more sunny days soon!

The wet area here is becoming a serious problem. I almost can't wait for it to be hot and dry! The dogs absolutely reek, because it is the area above the septic tank transpiration beds at the lower end of the property where the water doesn't run off, and doesn't soak in.
On the up side - I have decided to fence off the whole lower area of garden with an L shaped fence of treated pine and wire, 6 ft high, and grow climbing roses and clematis all around! Don't know yet how much that will set us back, but it will be a no dog area. I also bought a good number of louisiana irises at the iris show yesterday, and they will become my swamp management team. It's drizzle here today, with more rain predicted by Wed or Thurs :-( The sad thing is that Ballarat, just over the range, isn't getting anywhere near as much.
Next year they start building a pipeline to pump water from the Creswick catchment to Ballarat, so they can pump it back over the divide, once it has been treated, to provide Creswickians with water on Ballarat level restrictions. Given that an upgraded treatment plant, at a far lower cost would allow Creswick to use their own water at never higher than level 1 restrictions (as if we even have to water the garden most of the year anyway), it seems like another very sensible plan approved by the government, without an environmmental impact study.