Don't prune it back yet. It may well survive OK and, if not, the extremities will take the frost and protect the core. Is the framework OK? Could you cover it with a huge sheet of plastic like a polytunnel? Sold by the metre in good DIYs and garden centres.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Very dispiriting for you. It's stormy again today and possibly another one on Sunday - neither is expected to be as bad in the same areas, but beware when making plans for the clear up, especially any temporary structures - they'll need to be fairly sturdy.
On the upside, apart from the toms and cucumbers, everything you listed there will be alright outside for a little while at the moment, including the fig and the grape. So concentrate on clearing up the broken glass for now.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Oh no. We've got a storm coming in here tomorrow, predicted 60mph steady winds gusting to 90. I've taken the plastic off my pollytunnels, had to sacrifice my peppers,cucumbers and the last of the tomatoes but better than losing the tunnels, they won't stand up to that. My greenhouse is a very old handmade job in glass, it may or may not survive. hoping it will.
Some thick boots and gloves are what you need, cleaning up glass is never fun, good luck!
Can you put some sort of netting over the greenhouse @Skandi? Something like butterfly netting you put over the cabbages? If you fix it securely to battens either side and fix the battens to the ground or the greenhouse base, if the worst happens and the glass breaks, the net should hold the glass in a more confined area so you aren't picking it out of the whole garden for years to come
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
So sorry about so sorry about your greenhouses, really empathise we have learnt over the years with our place that damage gives way i new ideas. maybe resiting the new greenhouse? Good luck
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
Commiserations x. Couple of years ago my boss (we lived on edge of small Pennine town),got a phone call from his next door neighbour . Apparently his conservatory had been lifted clean off it's foundations and had been deposited upside down in neighbours garden. Got fed up with sound of breaking glass in my similarly exposed greenhouse and gradually replaced my panels with polycarbonate . If they blow out you can retrieve them and clip them back in.
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On the upside, apart from the toms and cucumbers, everything you listed there will be alright outside for a little while at the moment, including the fig and the grape. So concentrate on clearing up the broken glass for now.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
IT AINT WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU ITS HOW YOU REACT TO IT THAT MATTERS
we have learnt over the years with our place that damage gives way i new ideas.
maybe resiting the new greenhouse? Good luck
A A Milne
Got fed up with sound of breaking glass in my similarly exposed greenhouse and gradually replaced my panels with polycarbonate . If they blow out you can retrieve them and clip them back in.