Horrendous winds here yesterday and overnight and the night before too so two nights of broken sleep. We have a 2m high mesh fence at the back of the veggie plot made by screwing 5 x 2m lengths of builders' wire mesh for concrete reinforcing to tall posts bedded in concrete. I use it to train tayberries and a loganberries and sometimes pumpkins up into the sun for ripening.
This year I have strung a porous windbreak fabric along the bottom metre to protect my fruits bushes and reduce the flow of frosts down the ill from behind. The whole lot is now leaning at a drunken 45° and needs struts to hold it up again. A normal wooden trellis fence is similarly wobbly and needs tying up till we can support it properly.
A pile of 6 plastic garden chairs went for a 20m spin along the back of the house and was only stopped by a small hedge. I have yet to venture out to check the greenhouse and other plants and assorted pots along the froint as it is still blowing and raining hard.
Humph!
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Such a shame things getting damaged by the wind hope everybody gets thing repaired. I had one of them plastic GH for a bit, every time I looked at it had been blown over with all my plants in it, it had red brick weighing it down as well.
The met office has issued wind weather warning tonight / tomorrow for much of the country and rain for where I live . Make sure nothing can be blown into the GH and vents/doors are closed, I use a bag of compost leaning on the door to help keep it closed.
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Horrendous winds here yesterday and overnight and the night before too so two nights of broken sleep. We have a 2m high mesh fence at the back of the veggie plot made by screwing 5 x 2m lengths of builders' wire mesh for concrete reinforcing to tall posts bedded in concrete. I use it to train tayberries and a loganberries and sometimes pumpkins up into the sun for ripening.
This year I have strung a porous windbreak fabric along the bottom metre to protect my fruits bushes and reduce the flow of frosts down the ill from behind. The whole lot is now leaning at a drunken 45° and needs struts to hold it up again. A normal wooden trellis fence is similarly wobbly and needs tying up till we can support it properly.
A pile of 6 plastic garden chairs went for a 20m spin along the back of the house and was only stopped by a small hedge. I have yet to venture out to check the greenhouse and other plants and assorted pots along the froint as it is still blowing and raining hard.
Humph!
Such a shame things getting damaged by the wind hope everybody gets thing repaired. I had one of them plastic GH for a bit, every time I looked at it had been blown over with all my plants in it, it had red brick weighing it down as well.
The met office has issued wind weather warning tonight / tomorrow for much of the country and rain for where I live
. Make sure nothing can be blown into the GH and vents/doors are closed, I use a bag of compost leaning on the door to help keep it closed.
Even the birds are having trouble landing on the feeders here!