The dwarf beans we planted after the rain have grown incredibly fast. They weren’t even magic beans, to my knowledge anyway. If you ever want to see life just bursting forth from the earth, plant some beans. This particular one appears to have been visited by The Very Hungry Caterpillar

We planted carrots, various lettuces, broccoli and capsicum a few weeks ago. Forgot to post the photo at the time, it’s on the left or big version here. Then last week, Melbourne was the lucky recipient of over 5 inches of rain in 24 hours (if memory serves it was 145mm at the Scoresby weather [...]