A big week of mulching down at 6R which will continue into next week and we got the main carpark back to being a carpark again and you wouldn't know what had happened there over the past three weeks.  6R is still being processed and will be moved off site next week and hopefully by then we will nearly be back to normal again.  Of course there is the small issue of the stumps and we are hoping that their removal will start in about two weeks time.  We will also be using contractors to move through the courses removing ''hangers'' that are broken branches still caught up in the trees.  The stumps will be very time consuming and depending on the hole they are working on we may need to close the hole to ensure everyone's safety.  We are hoping to get two contractors and as you could imagine any treelopper / contractor are a little busy at present.

6R mulchpile.

We have now had 780mm of rain in March alone which takes us to a total of 2,116mm since November 1.  Think about that for a minute, as that converts to just shy of 85 inches.  This was a report on ABC news this week and probably isn't the sort of press we are looking for -

The Tweed Shire Council was one of the worst-hit LGAs in the state, according to Superintendent Tanner.

About 640 millimetres of rain fell at the Tweed Heads Golf Club in the five days up to Monday, March 10, BOM senior climatologist Hugh McDowall said.

He said it was one of the exceptional totals, with the north coast recording an average of 200-400mm.

Having that much rain obviously means we are wet but also means a lot of cloud and dull light conditions, which isn't good for 328 Couchgrass which we have on the River greens.  There are a number of descriptions used within the trade for what happens to 328 under these conditions and they include ''leggy'', ''puffy'' and ''laid flat'' which is probably a good word for the River greens at the moment.  They are really open and thin which is not the way you want to enter winter so we are looking for an immediate improvement in the weather over the next month.