The rain in Brisbane floods mainly in my garden

We are learning to garden.

I am hoping that my ability to send pot plants to an early watery (or bone dry) grave will this year become one that is ruled with a green thumb.

We've rented a plot at the Northey Street City Farm.

On Sunday we turned it from this...


... into this.


Doesn't it look nice? More to the point, doesn't it look FERTILE?

I read somewhere recently that a good gardener doesn't grow plants, they grow soil.

I guess you don't build a house on shonky foundations and expect it to stand up, so it makes sense that spending time improving the soil would make for delicious and happy vegetables.

We dug in the green manure that had been planted there, chucked on some chook poo, mulched it, gave it a good water and netted it to discourage the bush turkeys from making it their new nest.

Only problem is this area is notorious for flash flooding, as there is a creek that runs through the back of the farm.

I've just read that Northey Street was closed today because of rain.

I wonder how our little plot is holding up, or whether our well-tended soil and mulch has gone to a watery grave to be with my pot plants?