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  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    @bertrand-mabel I've been doing that today too - picking what the birds have left me, while trying not to fall off a sleeper and inhaling castor oil leaves! 
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    The 'gentle breeze' yesterday took out one of my next door neighbour's 6 foot fence panels. Heaven help us if it gets to 'strong'!
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • I hate wind.

    I had to stake my vertical growing Rosemary yesterday.

    It is still blowing a hooley. Horrible.
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    The last two days have been made very unpleasant but today there is no wind and there is rain - Hurrah! The plants are remarkably resilient and have survived more or less unscathed, despite me finding it hard to stand upright!  The flowers  however have not fared so well. Petals whipped away, my lovely climbing rose has all its flowers battered, so they are now bruised and brown and the flowering period shortened for many things that would have gone on longer.
    Still, the rain can only do good and might encourage some growth at last in the dahlias, and others that have just been 'hanging on in there' through the hot weather. And it might make the ground soft enough for me to plant my brassicas out :)
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    We had rain in the early hours, it always does that when there's none forecast, so I give the hot beds a soak.  🙄
  • It has been blowing a hooley with heavy showers/downpours for the last two days. At least I haven't needed to water. There are black clouds and blue sky today so more of the same and for tomorrow.
    Everything in the garden is looking thoroughly battered.
  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    We must be quite sheltered here in Suffolk; the wind has been more on the gentle side.  But enough to be annoying - trying to prick out seedlings with both hands needed for that and hair blowing in front of my eyes.
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    didyw said:
    We must be quite sheltered here in Suffolk; the wind has been more on the gentle side.  But enough to be annoying - trying to prick out seedlings with both hands needed for that and hair blowing in front of my eyes.
    Yes, I'm eating hairy biscuits out here.. 
    I'm surprised my stachys isn't flopping after last night's rain, it usually is.
  • We had an annoying wind in the recent 3 days, too. It made really nervous. The light was also white and dull grey. I do hope we will get rain tonight. It has been extremely dry here this year. A lot of plants didn’t develop this year. 
    I don’t think that my tomato plants will produce much this year. Far too cold and not enough sunshine. 

    I my garden.

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