"Jeßus" wrote in message
Slow and steady there - no use busting a woofer valve to get them all into
the ground. Last year Himself planted a long shelter belt with minor
assistance on my part and I can't believe how well they are all doing. We
had a dry summer last year and so we ripped up a lot of irrigation pipes
we'd put on another shelter belt we put in one of the paddock about 10
years ago and gave the new trees some minor irrigation over summer. Even
that minor assitance has them leaping out of their bark.

Good to hear. I'm still learning the climate here - last summer was
quite dry - quite a lot drier than I was expecting, meaning I'll
probably need to drip irrigate the fruit trees.
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An elderly friend, aged 75, bought a bare 5 acre block with just a house and
shed on it 5 years ago. It's not good land at all, the soil being pale,
stony and not attractive at all. He's spent the last 5 years planting and
now I simply cannot believe the growth he's managed to achieve.

He is very good about watering and uses a big trailer with those 3 of those
200 litre ex chemical tanks in the metal cages to water with. He trundles
off to the river, pumps the tansk full and then goes back and gives each
tree about 20 litres of water at a go.

The old bugger really is quite inspiring.
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All the locals say the weather is changing.
Then again, thats what you hear everywhere else as well.
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but you can't knock the local knowledge. I've lived in this region since
1968 and the summer storms we used to get are well and truly a thing off the
past.

We also used to get afternoon breezes in summer here which would drop the
temps here by 10 degrees C within a half hour space of time. They were as
regualr as clockwork and you knew it was around 4.00pm when the wind from
the west stopped and 10 minutes later it started blowing from the east. Not
any more. We got a toal of 2 breezes all through summer last year whereas
years ago you'd comment if you got 2 days when the breeze didn't come, now
we comment if we do get it.

Oh, N.E Tas here, btw.

Aaah! God's own.

I like to think so, which is why I bought this property last year
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We love Tassie but it's too far from rels and granchildren in reality. But
we still to with the idea.

Husband witters on and on about the C515 (out from Longford) and how he'd
like to live on it. We were driving along it and he'd said to me that he'd
love to be driving his Riley along it. Not 2 minutes later a Riley of the
exact same model as his came towards us from the other direction. Could
have knocked us down with a feather.
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The frosts can be (and are) brutal here - bad news for the garden (well,
some of it at least), but I do love going out at daybreak during a good
frost - everything is crisp and still.

Where are you located again?
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NSW south east at about 800 M - cold and frosty in winter, hot and dry in
summer.