"len gardener" wrote in message
g'day fran,

How do Len?

Any luck with the sale yet (or shouldn't I be asking)?

welcome back, have you got any new tricks on making it rain huh
chuckle

Well I must be holding my mouth right. We have had enough showers to keep
us going till now and to fill up all the dams and the house tanks. My
garden is also looking quite reasonable too, buuuttt, it is now starting to
reach the serious start of the heat. It's cloudy overhead now and they are
forcasting showers today so I'm hoping we might get the odd 10ml (this has
been the norm with the odd 30ml thrown in).

It is now time to finally put in the cucurbits so I need to get the planting
areas looking a bit more friendly for tender seedlings. Have the toms in -
they went in in 32degrees C with ghastly hot dry winds blowing. They didn't
miss a beat 'cos I gave then a good drink with seedweed emulsion before I
planted them and then watered them with it and covered them with shade cloth
for a day.

Had another win too in the veg garden. I've been ignoring the garden
totally over winter and forgot that I had planted a fig in there which I had
intended to cosset and cover formt he frosts. I forgot din I! Anyway the
mustard greens had gone really feral and they were about as big as a house
and so saved the poor little fig.

I was particularly keen on saving the fig as we had found one very old tree,
with a few figs on it, growing in the middle of State Forest at an abandoned
house site (house went sometime in the '60s). I figured if the fig could
survive uncared for and still fruiting in the middle of a drought where it
was then it would be a good one to have in the garden,. I took 5 cuttings
and managed to get 3 to grow so I don't want to lose any of them.

Any sight or sound of Tara on the list?