Raining.

It's been raining lightly here on and off all day.

Very nice.

Cheers

Stewart

Spring storm rain

20 mls. 20 mls of beautiful Spring storm rain here at 'My veggie garden' last night. I can almost hear them (my veggies that is) growing as I walk around my backyard, and the weeds but that's another story.

I expect to see the next crop of beans up by this weekend along with the yellow button squash. The carrots and beetroot will take another week or so. Oh, and I wouldn't be surprised to see the radish up when I go out for a look tomorrow.

I sure the the tomatoes, cabbage and lettuce I've planted will be having a good time too and it'll be great for the corn I plan to plant this weekend.

What can I say? Nothing beats a nice fall of Spring storm rain.

Cheers and all the best for your veggies,

Stewart.

P.S. As I'm sitting here writing this we've (we've as in me and my veggie garden that is) just had another shower pass over. It's all good here.

What can I say?

Well well well what can I say? As you can see from the forecast below it going to turn wet wet wet, again. So to make to most out of an ordinary situation today has moved from a weeding to a seed planting day.

I'm thinking beetroot, carrots and another round of brassicas including  broccoli, savoy cabbage and cauliflower. 





Queensland State Forecast

IDQ10700

Issued at 4:50 am EST on Thursday 14 April 2011


Forecast for Friday An upper level trough is expected to move across southern Queensland. An associated surface trough will move east and lie from the northwest to the southern interior. Cloudy with areas of thundery rain spreading across the interior south of about Longreach, reaching the Darling Downs (that's us or me if you like) and Granite Belt in the afternoon and evening. Isolated afternoon and evening showers developing during the day between the Great Dividing Range and the coast south of about St. Lawrence. Isolated showers and thunderstorms over northern Cape York Peninsula. Day time temperatures below average over the southern interior due to cloud. Light to moderate SE to NE winds east of the trough, moderate to fresh S to SW winds west of the trough.

Forecast for Saturday The surface trough should move east a little over the central and southern interior. The upper trough will move east produce thundery rain areas over the southeastern quarter of the state. Isolated showers and thunderstorms over the Central Highlands district, and isolated showers about much of the tropical coast and interior east of the surface trough. Continuing unstable over northern Cape York Peninsula with isolated showers and thunderstorms. Below average day time temperatures over the central and southern interior.

Forecast for Sunday The upper level trough will strengthen over the southern and central Queensland interior, and the surface trough will drift westwards back to the central parts of the state. Showers and thunderstorms over the central, southern and southeast interior east of the surface trough, tending to thundery rain areas during the day. Showers increasing over the remaining eastern districts as winds along the east coast develop a more onshore direction. Continuing unstable over northern Cape York Peninsula with Isolated showers and thunderstorms. Below average maxima over the southern interior.

Cheers and beers

Stewart.

Rain

 About time I put something up on the old bloggie thing. Though there's not much to write about lately except for rain. A facebook friend in San Antonio, Texas has even heard about our rain on their news and asked me how I was getting on.

I'm just going to get the machete and see if I can cut a swath through the back yard to the rain gauge to see how much we've had here. I'll be back in 30 minutes or so but just in case you don't hear from me again, then, it's been fun........

......I made it back, I have returned triumphant from my travels to the rain gauge and as I suspected my 120ml rain gauge doth overflowerth. Just too much rain for my little gauge to handle.

338, that's our official total of ml's for the 28 days of December so far, at the airport. And although we are only 6 or 7 k's away from the airport we do receive more rain here than there.

It's amazing to me that only 12 months ago I was disillusioned with the veggie garden due to the ongoing drought and having to lug around watering can after watering can of water to keep the garden alive, and now I'm disillusioned because I can't get out and work on the garden due to the incredible amount of rain we are getting. Maybe with a little luck things will balance out after these extremes and I can settle into some productive veggie gardening.

While I've been talking about rain we haven't received any to-day and it's supposed to be fine tomorrow, and though I am working all day that doesn't matter because it will still be too wet to work in the veggie garden anyway. But if we can get all the planets to line up then on Thursday I should be able to get a few hours outside, so here's hoping for Thursday.

Cheers and beers

Stewart.

Countdown to Christmas

Christmas might be a little early here. It's actually really raining!

But who's counting?


Poodwaddle.com

I went Berko

I went berserk (some say berko) yesterday on the strength of the BoM's prediction of good rainfall this week and planted heaps of seeds.

I planted seeds (direct sowing that is) of carrots, lettuce, cucumber, rock melon, beetroot, corn, bok choy and beans (butter of course).

So as the rain tumbles down I'm feeling pretty pleased with myself right now and if the BoM, with further predictions of rain ,storms and showers through out the week, has it right then by early next week I should have little baby veggies popping up every where, fingers crossed of course.

Cheers
Stewart

What is rain?

Does 1 ml of precipitation in a 24 hr period
constitute rain?

FORECASTS FOR SOUTHEAST QUEENSLAND
Issued at 4:40am EST on Thursday the 4th of June 2009
for Thursday

IDQ1008002
DARLING DOWNS AND GRANITE BELT DISTRICT
Cloudy periods with patchy rain areas in far eastern
parts, easing to isolated showers during the morning.
Isolated thunderstorms. Light to moderate NE to N'ly
winds, tending NW to SW during the afternoon.
Outlook for Friday     ... Morning drizzle areas and
isolated afternoon showers.
Possible isolated thunderstorms in the far southeast.
Outlook for Saturday   ... Isolated afternoon showers,
mostly north of Dalby.

IDQ1008003
TOOWOOMBA
Early rain, easing to a shower or two.
Possible thunderstorm.
Light to moderate E to NE winds tending NW to SW
during the afternoon.
MAX    18
UV Alert - 10:20 am to 1:10 pm, UV Index predicted to
reach 4 [Moderate]
Outlook for Friday     ... Early drizzle and a possible
afternoon shower.

50mm to 9am

Hi all,
Well I'm impressed, the Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology Queensland finally got something right.

We've had buckets of rain here the likes of which I haven't seen for years.

32mm up to 9am on Tuesday morning and another 50mm to 9am this morning (Wed) and it's still raining heavily.

Now if it can only keep raining as forecast and we get as much rain again then we just might end up with some much need inflows to our local storage dams.

Tropical Cyclone Hamish. This post here has some information on the dire straights of our local dams.

Cheers and happy veggie gardening,
Stewart

If I didn't laugh I'd cry

If I didn't laugh I'd cry

IDQ1008003
TOOWOOMBA
Rain periods developing during the morning. Moderate to fresh E/SE winds, gusty
at times.
MAX    22
UV Alert - 8:40 am to 3:20 pm, UV Index predicted to reach 10 [Very High]
Outlook for Friday     ... Showers.

These blokes couldn'd lie straight in bed.

I love a rainy night

Hi,
It's been raining here on and off all night and I have always thought of this song when it's raining so I am going to share with you.
I hope you enjoy it.

Magic Beans

Wow, could it be Diggers Magic Bean Mix is actually, "Magic",.
I planted the beans out this morning along with my Watermelon and Pumpkin and can you believe it,it's raining.
According to the Marburg BoM radar it is coming at us from the east, west and south east.
Whoo Who.
Ooh. I almost forgot I planted some lemon cucumber as well.

I don't believe it

It's raining, it's really raining. 7 mls far
This is the first time in about three weeks I haven't had to trudge around the backyard watering.
I'm as happy as a pig in mud.