good to hear you getting some good rain at last, this is not wide spread rain as the storms are very small in dimension but also in the highly destructive range.

that run off water is what you need to stop so you have lots of water stored in your soil to minimise watering, in permaculture we do all things gardens, tree planting mulching along the contours to trap this water and put it under ground in the soil where it is needed. to maximise the benfits of rain fall water must be kept on your property as long as possible of course there are areas where it is boggy and this is not appropriate but for the main that is not so. working the rain water this way has turned our block around and given us a drought tollerant block as against others where no measures are taken to utilise scarce rainwater.

it all shows in the quality of plant and grazing grass growth.

len

Treeluver, you certainly are unlucky when it comes to rain as my brother at Carindale has been having quite a bit of rain.

In the chook yard where we get all the run off from the block on the right Tony has put these old concrete things in so it is like a dam that stops a lot running away but not all of it, we are still working on it thanks . But its the body Len with Tonys left shoulder frozen and my right one between us both we still cannot use a lot of the garden tools and old age is starting to catch up a bit. When reading the gauge this morning I find we only got 44mm not the 60 I though but a wonderful bonus all the same ..Cheers..MM.