Anyway, i think there is still time for a last crop. Winter weather can persist up to mid-April and in previous years some of the biggest dong bei ji fongs have come in March.

Will be interested to see what kind of a mei yu we get this year - i remember it was pretty big last year - in fact my vegie garden died from too much water - i was in Australia at the time and may have also contributed by putting the watering system on automatic.

This is actually a pretty rare event going on at the moment. A system moving from west to east making it across the two mountain ranges and raining here. Must be a pretty strong to be able to do that.