Wonderful week of viewing coming up....not

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Southern Sydney......

Friday
Drizzle clearing
15°C - 29°C

Saturday
Increasing sunshine
15°C - 31°C

Sunday
Sunny
14°C - 33°C

Monday
Late thunder
15°C - 36°C

Tuesday
Showers
13°C - 25°C

Wednesday
Possible shower
12°C - 26°C

Thursday
Possible shower
14°C - 30°C

Friday
Mostly sunny
14°C - 34°C

Good for the garden? Yup.

[GTB_an_Owl (Geoff)]

well we don't want it to rain next saturday night
so any during the week is welcome

[Dujon]

To be brutally honest, Omaroo, I pine for a couple of weeks of constant, but not heavy, rain. Our garden at the moment is being sustained by a couple of times a day watering can regime. It works reasonably well for all the tube stock that my wife (and I, on occasion) nurture but even the established trees and such are now showing the effects produced by the lack of water. It really breaks your heart.

I'd get my wife to join me in the back yard and shed tears of sadness but I fear that such would increase the soil's salinity.

On a personal level: The clear skies and I seem to have differing schedules so a few weeks of rain will bother me little. As they say on the ABC's cricketing broadcasts "Bring it on".

Heretic? Moi?

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Yup - I agree with you John. Our lawns and flower beds are stuffed. Completely. I hope that one day we'll get them back because right now they're a lost cause. We also have 500 tube stock plants of various native varieties going on our rear patio. We've bought them back up to Sydney from Omaroo so that we can water them - otherwise they'd last a week down in Cooma on their own. I want it to rain for weeks. Astronomy can wait I'm afraid.

I just want it to clear up for tonight's viewing session at UWS Observatory where we're running a public night....

[ving (David)]

the desert in my front yard can certainly do with some water... or should i say the weeds in the front yard need water

i dont mind... just have to try for sunday night.

[Ric]

Hi Omaroo, we are watering our young trees by bucket from the dam, they seem to be hanging in there at the moment. I haven't had to mow the paddock for nearly a year now because that is just dirt.

cheers

[Dujon]

How'd the public viewing go, Chris (or is it Jenny)? Pity I couldn't make it down - the UWS is probably only 15-20 minutes by car from here.

We did get some rain overnight - a whole 0.7mm. No doubt most of that has already evaporated. I hope it didn't spoil your evening.

What's your tube stock for? Is for your Cooma property? My wife is a volunteer at the Katoomba Wildplant Rescue Service (well, I think that's what it's called) and because it's a little warmer down our neck of the woods we often have a few hundred - at times a couple of thousand - tubes with anything from seedlings to 'ready to plant' natives under our care.

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Originally Posted by Dujon

How'd the public viewing go, Chris (or is it Jenny)? Pity I couldn't make it down - the UWS is probably only 15-20 minutes by car from here.

We did get some rain overnight - a whole 0.7mm. No doubt most of that has already evaporated. I hope it didn't spoil your evening.

What's your tube stock for? Is for your Cooma property? My wife is a volunteer at the Katoomba Wildplant Rescue Service (well, I think that's what it's called) and because it's a little warmer down our neck of the woods we often have a few hundred - at times a couple of thousand - tubes with anything from seedlings to 'ready to plant' natives under our care.

Hi John. Chris here - not Jenny.

The public night was a no-goer. Quite a few people turned up too because it had been advertised on local radio. Some came from Bankstown so they had a bit of a trip for nothing unfortunately. Oh well... next time.

The tube stock is for Omaroo. It's part of a LandCare grant project we're participating in to repair and restock our riperean zone after all the snap willows have been destroyed. Damn willows are choking our part of the river so they have to go. Mostly replacing with bridgesiana and viminalis from a local Bombala nursery.

Cheers
Chris

[Dujon]

Good luck with the project, Chris. Those willows are a curse. It sounds like you're well and truly on the right track with the eucalypts - mind you, digging out the exotic vermin is no doubt a huge task.

I hope you win the battle.

Darn shame about the UWS night. All that effort for naught cannot be fun.