Thread: Veggie Patch

What happened today was Very rare we don't get storms like that usually, Especially with those wind speeds and duration.
I will just have to replant what has been destroyed and get on with it.
Its a shame though because everything was flourishing before this storm hit

No photo's of destruction ? Was just thinking the other day how was your garden going .

Originally Posted by 1950landy

No photo's of destruction ? Was just thinking the other day how was your garden going .

It was too dangerous to be outside yesterday with 80kph sustained winds and gusts up to 112kph, I did try But the dust was choking and it filled up my eyes in seconds.
I will get a couple of pic's this morning

It looks like I will have to replant/re sow about 50-60% of the garden due to that bloody storm.

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WOW, That is hart braking. One would think the corrugated iron would have acted as a wind brake or did the cold also burn it. Were we live the wind starts blowing around lunch time every day dry's out the plants that are in pots& if I miss watering them every second day they look like that , give them a water & they start to come back but each time they get like that they get a little worst until they don't recover. Good luck

I put the tin there to slow down the usual S/SW wind we usually get But that is usually about 10-20kts, The tin wasn't effective for a screaming N/NE at 50kts sadly.
I pulled out all the ruined beans and replanted new seeds today as well as pulling out the wreaked Pac Sum and planted Pac Choy to replace it.
With many of the flattened "Brassicas" I stood them up and put some dirt around them to hold them in place and hopefully they will come good as they weren't snapped of But simply pushed over by the wind.
I don't know about the spuds But as they are still very young I am hoping that they will regenerate hopefully.
The Pumpkins are "Toast" But that's OK I need that space to put a few chillies in.
I had a few spare tomato seedlings so I was able to replace those as well.

The garden is looking a little better now and hopefully I can repair the rest of the damage over the next couple of days.
I could only spend a couple of hours out there because I am giving the Missus a hand getting all this blasted dust out of the house, It mad a Hell of a mess.

Originally Posted by trout1105

It was too dangerous to be outside yesterday with 80kph sustained winds and gusts up to 112kph, I did try But the dust was choking and it filled up my eyes in seconds.
I will get a couple of pic's this morning

One in ten years storm all down the west coast from about Kalbarri and across to Esperance plus - still going here in Freo, but not all that much rain, mainly wind. Lots of the usual trees down and surfs up.

Originally Posted by gavinwibrow

One in ten years storm all down the west coast from about Kalbarri and across to Esperance plus - still going here in Freo, but not all that much rain, mainly wind. Lots of the usual trees down and surfs up.

We only got 16mm and that was after 12 or so hours of dust storm, We are still cleaning the dust out of the house.
It took me a couple of hours just to do the back patio.

Ah well, We are safe for another 10 years now