70mls!
Dam collected about 30cm or a bit more. It was beginning to drop noticeably.
General ground dirt wet through to the subsoil which of course is only 10cm down but it does take a lot to wet it.
I'm so glad I got most of the fertilizing done during the week. A few fruit trees around the granny flat & the pineapples have missed out but will get done tomorrow probably so should still benefit from the rain.
Unfortunately all my hard work to clear out the 9 spoon drains down the driveway turned out to be completely wasted effort. When I drove the rubbish down to the front gate the bad news was staring me in the face every several meters as it was apparent every drain was again full to overflowing with gravel off the driveway.
It's bloody amazing how quartz gravel & sand can be washed away so easily. So again the need to do several early mornings of very hard work to clean out each drain by shovelling the gravel into the barrow then push it uphill to the previous berm & dump it into thin grass. Hopefully now with some rain the grass will grow again to hold the gravel for the rest of the wet season. It's the extra long dry year that really did the damage this year, killing the thin couch grass that holds the quartz sand on the slope.
I cant wait to have the wherewithal to build a permanent driveway.
Dam collected about 30cm or a bit more. It was beginning to drop noticeably.
General ground dirt wet through to the subsoil which of course is only 10cm down but it does take a lot to wet it.
I'm so glad I got most of the fertilizing done during the week. A few fruit trees around the granny flat & the pineapples have missed out but will get done tomorrow probably so should still benefit from the rain.
Unfortunately all my hard work to clear out the 9 spoon drains down the driveway turned out to be completely wasted effort. When I drove the rubbish down to the front gate the bad news was staring me in the face every several meters as it was apparent every drain was again full to overflowing with gravel off the driveway.
It's bloody amazing how quartz gravel & sand can be washed away so easily. So again the need to do several early mornings of very hard work to clean out each drain by shovelling the gravel into the barrow then push it uphill to the previous berm & dump it into thin grass. Hopefully now with some rain the grass will grow again to hold the gravel for the rest of the wet season. It's the extra long dry year that really did the damage this year, killing the thin couch grass that holds the quartz sand on the slope.
I cant wait to have the wherewithal to build a permanent driveway.