One keen gardener, Springvale woman Kim Breust believes it's the season many have been waiting for to deflect their attention from lockdown restrictions and become active tending to their gardens.

Mrs Breust said she had noticed a significant increase in people actively pursuing one of the few activities achievable during COVID stay at home restrictions.

"Even when I just go for my groceries it's noticeable the amount of people working in their garden, it's just increased tenfold," she said.

"I suppose I'm one of them because I'm putting the work in now to get it ready for the better weather.

"I'm trimming everything back and getting ready for spring.

"Now is when you can come out and enjoy the garden more and you can get a nice bit of relaxation and some fresh air."

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Mrs Breust had an additional reason for putting in the extra work to beautify her "slice of paradise" but is yet another to succumb to the impact of COVID.

"My daughter Bethany was supposed to be married here in the garden in October, but we've had to pull the pin," she said.

"Three of her bridal party are from interstate and we couldn't take the chance it would go ahead with the lockdown restrictions.

"We were lucky because I spoke to all the local vendors and they're hurting as much as us in this lockdown and we've locked in a new date for March 5 now.

"It's bad that we can't have the wedding or you can't have a dozen people around for a barbecue but it's good that more people are getting in their gardens."

Literally enjoying the fruits of her toils in the garden over a 20-year period since she and her husband Martin bought the block on the former goat farm 20 years ago, Mrs Breust has established many varieties of fruit trees.

Describing her garden as a place of sanctuary, Mrs Breust encouraged others to use their time being "locked down" to help change their mindset.

"It just relaxes you and clears your head," Mrs Breust said.

"If anyone has any stress and anxiety they should just go out and smell the roses."

And, according to the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) senior forecaster Neale Fraser there will be plenty of opportunity to be active outdoors in the coming days.

"There's some rain approaching that should reach Wagga Friday overnight and then it should be back to being dry by Sunday," Mr Fraser said.

"It will be 23 degrees (Wednesday) then 24 degrees on Thursday and Friday, ahead of the rain which will drop the temperature back down to about 16 with the south westerly change."

However, BOM climatologist Doctor Andrew Watkins predicts a warmer but wetter spring for the east of Australia.

Dr Watkins said the main reason behind the Bureau's prediction for a wetter than average spring was a climate driver called the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD).

"We've currently got a negative IOD - a phenomenon which typically brings an increased chance of rainfall to southern and eastern Australia," he said.

"This negative IOD is expected to persist throughout spring but is currently weaker than the last negative IOD event we saw in 2016, which brought Australia's wettest May-October period on record."

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