the lines from the poem
My Country by Dorothy Mackellar "of droughts and flooding rains." ring somewhat true this weekend
We've had the drought and this winter have happily seen our
water storage dams rise from being only 30% full to now being over 50% full, so weather can be kind and it can be nasty. Yesterday I was not happy to find that it had been just downright mean. It probably only took about 30 minutes of torrential rain to undo a fair amount of the work Alex, the cat and I had done in the veggie patch.
the top left wooden border has been under cut and the gravel and river stones swept across the veggie bed beyond.
The edging helped save the veggies although in doing so all the water was channeled down the 2 pathways we'd created around the separate veggie beds and which have now been stripped down to subsoil. Some of the river stones from this path have actually been swept into next doors garden about 30 metres downhill!
I've only lost some lettuce and 2 potato plants, so it could have been alot worse.
Got a bit of work to do ....again! but this weekend is s'posed to be a wet one, so I'll just see if anything is still alive under there...the potato on the edge at least might be ok..
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