Here are some pics from Bruce Rolfe (Bullarto Primary School) taken just after the big rain in December - just before Christmas. The 3 inch (87mm) downpour of rain was welcome - but not on top of our seed potatoes, as it washed the potatoes out of their beds and in some cases into the dam. We had just had a trench dug to lay the irrigation and this concentrated the rain, causing the damage.
Not desirable!
Fiona
This shows the washing of the soil (and potatoes!) and the erosion which led to silting in the dam.
Look how well the seed potatoes were developing (germinating) before the deluge.
Fiona and a naked spud!
But all is not lost - if you go back to the previous post you'll see the fabulous growth
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