Edible Garden Destroyed / Floods 2012

As you may have heard, last week Roma was inundated with water and flooded. I live in Roma, and whilst I was lucky enough that most of the house stayed dry, we still lost a lot and my  garden beds were under more then 2 feet of water....needless to say I am devastated by this.

view of my street, day 2 of the flood, couldn't move home till day 4 when power returned.



gardens covered in mud and mulch washed away.

Due to oil and other contaminants in the water none of my garden is now edible, herbs, carrots watermelons, tomato's, etc.... everything will need to be pulled out this week and a couple months of green manure crops, compost and manures will be added to improve the compacted soil.

There was such a torrent running through the yard that one of the raised beds ( 2 sleepers high by 1 wide) was completely lifted out of the ground!

Sleepers lifted out of ground and moved by flood waters.

While this is a sad time for my gardening loving soul, I am grateful with every ounce of me for how lucky we truly were to have not lost everything, as some of my friends have, and I am very grateful to finally have hot water today after a week without !

On a bright note on the day that we were allowed to return to our house after the water had subsided, while assessing the damage, I noticed that this spider Lilly had flowered for the first time! It made me smile when there had been nothing but tears.

I promise you this is not the end of gardening life in me but a bump in the road and hopefully I will feel as rejuvenated as my garden will in a couple months time enjoying it's renewed prosperity.