My uprooted Acacia and other photos of the wind effects
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p70/beaver_album/Wind-damage.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p70/beaver_album/Wind-damage-2.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p70/beaver_album/Wind-damage-3.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p70/beaver_album/Wind-damage-4.jpg
wind damage can be avoided with windbreaks.
i have nil wind damage here despite high winds for two days.
Crikey Anne……that wind sure played havoc with the garden.
those veges have probably lost some moisture so some water with a bit of seaweed stuff should help them recover. Not much hope for your acacia though…
bluegreen said:
those veges have probably lost some moisture so some water with a bit of seaweed stuff should help them recover. Not much hope for your acacia though…
Yes I think they will have…but it is blowing a gale again, so I might wait till a bit later to see if the wind dies down a bit before I water, otherwise the water will end up everywhere except on the gardens!
darling.. just put a dribbling hose under them.. ;)
Lucky1 said:
Crikey Anne……that wind sure played havoc with the garden.
And still is Lucky! Oh the joys of gardening :(
..not
AnneS said:
My uprooted Acacia and other photos of the wind effects
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p70/beaver_album/Wind-damage.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p70/beaver_album/Wind-damage-2.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p70/beaver_album/Wind-damage-3.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p70/beaver_album/Wind-damage-4.jpg
i still love your garden but that was obviously quite a damaging wind.
oh well – firewood and – make what you can of the veges – which veges were damaged ?
pepe said:
AnneS said:
My uprooted Acacia and other photos of the wind effects
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p70/beaver_album/Wind-damage.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p70/beaver_album/Wind-damage-2.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p70/beaver_album/Wind-damage-3.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p70/beaver_album/Wind-damage-4.jpg
i still love your garden but that was obviously quite a damaging wind.
oh well – firewood and – make what you can of the veges – which veges were damaged ?
The mustard in the green manure bed seems to have born the brunt, but also the other brassicas where the tree branch landed were knocked around a bit. The carrots, swedes and lettuce have mainly just been blown around. The peas I haven’t look at closely, but I’d say some of them would have borken stems
The mustard in the green manure bed seems to have born the brunt, but also the other brassicas where the tree branch landed were knocked around a bit. The carrots, swedes and lettuce have mainly just been blown around. The peas I haven’t look at closely, but I’d say some of them would have borken stems
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the mustard was green manure – so in fact it could be forked in ?
the others should recover altho’ you sometimes get disease from the mass of broken stems. its probably best to clean up when the wind stops.
fingers crossed for you because that looks like a very productive patch.
pepe said:
The mustard in the green manure bed seems to have born the brunt, but also the other brassicas where the tree branch landed were knocked around a bit. The carrots, swedes and lettuce have mainly just been blown around. The peas I haven’t look at closely, but I’d say some of them would have borken stems
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the mustard was green manure – so in fact it could be forked in ?
the others should recover altho’ you sometimes get disease from the mass of broken stems. its probably best to clean up when the wind stops.fingers crossed for you because that looks like a very productive patch.
Yes pepe, the mustard wasn’t far off being ready to fork in, so that’s not too much of a problem. All I need now is for the wind to ease although that is not meant to happen for a till about Monday
Yes pepe, the mustard wasn’t far off being ready to fork in, so that’s not too much of a problem. All I need now is for the wind to ease although that is not meant to happen for a till about Monday
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probably the easiest wind break is the G.I. shed and there’s a couple of them in the third photo.
are there heaps of galv iron laying around ?
oh bugger :( not nice at all
pepe said:
Yes pepe, the mustard wasn’t far off being ready to fork in, so that’s not too much of a problem. All I need now is for the wind to ease although that is not meant to happen for a till about Monday
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probably the easiest wind break is the G.I. shed and there’s a couple of them in the third photo.
are there heaps of galv iron laying around ?
the shed on the left is the chook house…the other one is MrS’s work shed and carport. They are on the northern fenceline.
We do have access to a fair amount of gal iron in the landlord’s shed. He is quite happy for us to use it. Got ant good design ideas?
AnneS said:
My uprooted Acacia and other photos of the wind effectshttp://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p70/beaver_album/Wind-damage.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p70/beaver_album/Wind-damage-2.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p70/beaver_album/Wind-damage-3.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p70/beaver_album/Wind-damage-4.jpg
Make you cry wouldn’t it? Probably did.
pomolo said:
AnneS said:
My uprooted Acacia and other photos of the wind effectshttp://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p70/beaver_album/Wind-damage.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p70/beaver_album/Wind-damage-2.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p70/beaver_album/Wind-damage-3.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p70/beaver_album/Wind-damage-4.jpg
Make you cry wouldn’t it? Probably did.
Just about…went out when the wind died down. Managed to drag the acacia off the vegie beds (typical… MrS is away camping with Scouts so I had to do it myself..lol). Found that most of the brassicas were knocked about. But I followed BG advice and gave everything a seasol treatment. We will see how they go.
Heaps of mulch has been blown away too. :(
We do have access to a fair amount of gal iron in the landlord’s shed. He is quite happy for us to use it. Got ant good design ideas?
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100mm diam green posts at 1.7m centres – they need to be 600 -750mm into ground.
you need cross walls about every 5 metres so every third post will need a sister post about one metre inside the wall line at right angles to the wall line. a ten metre wall looks like a capital E in plan view.
screw the iron horizontal between the posts and cut a metre length for the cross walls.
it does away with the need for rails.
Oh that’s rotten luck, Anne. Hope the vegies recover but a shame about the Acacia.
this 4 bay compost bin is an example of a windbreak structure made of old garage doors and scrap iron. the division walls for the compost bays are the cross walls that brace the back wall.
the flinders ranges wattle trees to the west (back) of the structure add further wind protection.
It’s been a lot calmer today thank goodness. Following BG’s advice I gave the beds a water with seasol last night after I managed to drag the tree off them. At first I thought it was only mustard in the green manure bed that bore the brunt, but actually the brassica bed took a beating too from where the acacia landed on it. However the plants don’t look too bad this morning so I am hopeful that they will recover. Another of the green manure beds was flattened, but I think it will recover ok. The peas were knocked a bit so I will probably have to cut off the broken stems.
Lost a lot of mulch off a few of the beds. Only the one newly mulched bed (sans plants at this stage…got some new beetroot seedlings to go there) didn’t seem to lose any mulch because it was so wet. Yet the other newly mulched ones where we planted peas on Wednesday mustn’t have been as wet because they lost a lot of the mulch.
The thing that really surprised me was the way the rhubarb was bent over….didn’t notice that till last night (didn’t take a photo though).
pepe said:
this 4 bay compost bin is an example of a windbreak structure made of old garage doors and scrap iron. the division walls for the compost bays are the cross walls that brace the back wall.
the flinders ranges wattle trees to the west (back) of the structure add further wind protection.
Your bins are pretty much like ours except the back is higher.
ask him to build a wood shed on the west of the garden – this one is post and rail and has a concrete floor – so give him plenty of time to do it because it needs to be strong of course.