WATCH and ACT Victoria Australia #vicfloods
Multiple watch and act warnings current for riverine flooding due to heavy rain, follow @EmvBot for more.

RT @vicsesnews@twitter.com

Minor Flood Warning - Advice for the Ovens river to Bright and Rocky Point. You should Stay Informed. For more info: http://emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/#!/warning/29415/moreinfo #vicfloods

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/vicsesnews/status/1666336683850338326

Anyway, I’m going to leave the other spuds there for now, and attempt to give them a bit more water. Fingers crossed.

But if you were wondering why #MinimumChips is looking so scant lately, this is why.

#gardeningAU #gardening #VeggieGardening #EdibleGardening #GrowYourOwn #permaculture #zone1 #ObtainAYield #LaNina #VicFloods #ClimateChange #FoodSecurity #FoodShortages

So, what did I get from 5 months of garden-bed space? These three spuds, which I’d estimate at a bit over half a kilo.

I’m not sure what they needed but didn’t get. Warmth earlier in the season would have helped, I’m sure. They weren’t bogged down by the rains as they were in a raised bed and hilled up besides, and the soil isn’t clay-y. In digging up the bed it was clear that the last few weeks have dried the soil out a lot, even though I’ve been watering. I guess it all runs off or evaporated from the hilling-up. Still, it should have been ok.

I didn’t amend the soil particularly, other than doing my hilling up with sifted soil from the next bed over, where prunings and other garden waste have been rotting down for years; it had more organic matter than the bed I started with, but wasn’t what I’d call incredibly rich compost. Nor did I do a pH test, though the weeds growing there (chickweed, fumitory, wild radish, black nightshade, cleavers, the odd dandelion) suggest it’s pretty neutral veggie garden soil. It’s not like spuds are usually super fussy, in my experience.

#gardeningAU #gardening #VeggieGardening #EdibleGardening #GrowYourOwn #permaculture #zone1 #ObtainAYield #LaNina #VicFloods #ClimateChange #FoodSecurity #FoodShortages

So you know how there’s a potato shortage across Victoria at present? I present: my first potato harvest.

I planted Dutch Cream seed potatoes back in August, in ditches in one of my veggie beds, then hilled them up with extra soil through spring, to a total depth of about 40cm. Just this last week or so they’ve been starting to yellow and die back, so I figured there’d be some to harvest.

I started by bandicooting around under the plants, but in the end I pulled a couple of them up and dug down properly. Here’s the space where they were, about 50x60cm.

#gardeningAU #gardening #EdibleGardening #GrowYourOwn #permaculture #zone1 #ObtainAYield #LaNina #VicFloods #ClimateChange #FoodSecurity #FoodShortages

RT @vicemergency@twitter.com

Watch and Act - Moderate Flood Warning for Murray River downstream Nyah to Liparoo. You should Avoid the Flooded Area. For more info: https://bit.ly/3PIvfy4 #vicfloods

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/vicemergency/status/1605433922657009664

RT @vicemergency@twitter.com

Minor Flood Warning - Advice for Bunyip River downstream of Iona. You should Stay Informed. For more info: https://bit.ly/3FQ94m8 #vicfloods

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/vicemergency/status/1602900902641164289

Feeling for all those who have lost crops in #nswfloods #vicfloods in the last few weeks. Wheat, canola, fruit, vegies, what else?

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RT @nadine_morton
Emergency warnings in place for thousands of residents in NSW and Victoria as the rain keeps on falling and dams spilling. #nswfloods #vicfloods #flood
More ➡️ https://bit.ly/3E8huTM

Got to feel for the towns that have faced one flood to face another only a week later. NSW floodwaters rise faster than expected, #Forbes told to evacuate urgently. #nswfloods #Eugowra #vicfloods #Echuca #Rochester
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-15/nsw-flooding-hundreds-resuced-forbes-evacuated/101653738

RT @nadine_morton@twitter.com

Emergency warnings in place for thousands of residents in NSW and Victoria as the rain keeps on falling and dams spilling. #nswfloods #vicfloods #flood
More ➡️ https://bit.ly/3E8huTM

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/nadine_morton/status/1592012778692567040

The only positive thing about #mosquitoes is that they entice more #dragonflies to the yard

The #VicFloods have caused an explosion in mosquito numbers - they're huge & they're hungry

Every #Spring I say "I've never seen so many", but this year my complaint is legitimate & not just a #whinge

So evidently my #introduction #firstpost to #mastodon is irrelevant because I didn't add a bunch of #hashtags so this is #taketwo

Hello #mastodon world 👋

I'm
#audhd
#neurodivergent
#ausSocial
#Leftie
& currently dealing with #vicfloods

💛✌️

This is what it feels like to live in parts of Victoria and NSW in 2022.

#vicfloods
#ShoppingTrolley
#art

RT @NeritaWaight@twitter.com

@thevalsmob@twitter.com staff and I will be in #Mooroopna tomorrow from 9:30am to distribute flood relief to affected mob. If you need help pop down and if you can't get to our location contact Jaz or myself and we will bring it to you #floodrelief #vicfloods https://twitter.com/thevalsmob/status/1585111148827144193

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/NeritaWaight/status/1585409092566536194

We live in a system where racecourses are protected from flooding before peoples homes.

Just more evidence that climate change and climate disasters are produced by the rich and felt first by the poor.

#BlockadeAustralia #MelbourneCup2022 #VicFloods

the @Greens@twitter.com have gone too far this time #vicfloods

#vicfloods: putting the "merri" back in "merri-bek"

Welcome to A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists.

#IYKYK

RT @tpwkelly@twitter.com

First pictures from the air of #Maribyrnong (inner-city Melbourne, NW of the CBD): low-lying areas going underwater and evacuation orders in place @9NewsMelb@twitter.com @9NewsAUS@twitter.com #vicfloods #melbourneweather

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/tpwkelly/status/1580652822479065089