On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:22:07 +1100, "Fran Higham"
wrote:


How 'bout a sit rep from everyone?

Well, I've been back from the big deep briny for a couple of weeks
now, but I'm still too busy with work and thesis to get into the
garden. That's fine really, as the Qld blue pumpkin which self seeded
in December jsut before I left home has happily taken over all 100 sq.
m of my backyard and is merrily producing pumpkins. DH did very little
watering while I was away and I lost quite a few of the fruit trees I
planted in spring, so I'm now giving up on the idea of an intensive
veg garden in my backyard as too water wasteful for my area and I'm
going to concentrate on xenoscaping the area with drought-tolerant
species to make up for lost bushland in my area instead.

Good rain the last couple of days in Sydney, but most of it is going
straight out to sea. Very little is making the water catchment areas.
Fortunately I managed to miss the worst of summer and come back just
as Autumn started. I can't say having 40+ temps described to me in Jan
and Feb made me keen to come home!

Tara