Slowly does it...

It has been raining off and on for some weeks in Sydney. My garden is saturated. It is so wet that mud comes up on the grass when I walk on it. I am getting a bit twitchy through lack of gardening, but there isn't much you can do when the soil is as wet as this.

So what has been going on at our place?

• The chooks have moved out of their dome to under the quince tree.
• The broad beans have come up.
• The Brussels sprouts are looking happy, but the bok choi has been chewed a bit.
• Some nasturtiums did come up. Their first leaves are a really interesting shape!
• My Fringe Wattle and Sydney Golden Wattle are both just starting to bloom.
• The Council will charge us $300 for three square metres of concrete. Moral: one you have succeeded with a development application, don't change anything. Except that not making this change will annoy me for the rest of my life.

In other words, things are a bit frustrating around here at the moment. Reading Northern Hemisphere gardening blogs is not helping!