Severe wind and rain

Leif

Am I alone in having my plants devastated by the recent winds? I young curry plant was destroyed, and my tomatoes and chillis are a bit sad. My 7 year old Rocoto chilli lost half its leaves, and the remaining ones are sad. Basically these plants spent several days being completely thrashed. And of the three Camellias I bought, two died during the wet spells, no doubt drowned. One has survived, as has the 2m one outside my front door. This weather is getting silly.

I need a greenhouse.

Lotus-eater

Mine have been battered, my rhubarb is mostly flat, the comfrey is laying down everywhere, everything else is torn and knocked about, I lost most of my little pear fruitlets....... if it's not one thing it's another, last year I lost all my fruit to a late frost, this year it's the wind...... <sigh> next year...... next year will be a good one

LincolnshireYokel

Leif wrote: »

Am I alone in having my plants devastated by the recent winds? I young curry plant was destroyed, and my tomatoes and chillis are a bit sad. My 7 year old Rocoto chilli lost half its leaves, and the remaining ones are sad. Basically these plants spent several days being completely thrashed. And of the three Camellias I bought, two died during the wet spells, no doubt drowned. One has survived, as has the 2m one outside my front door. This weather is getting silly.

I need a greenhouse.

Cucumbers - 3 separate plantings destroyed
Tomatoes - inside g/house ok, outside, still the same size they were in March. Far too lat now, might as well bin them
Celery - inside ok, outside all died
Lettuce - outside ok, inside all bolted
Onions - ok
Leeks - not moving
Rhubarb - ok
Strawberries - lots of white ones, for a long time
Brassicas - small but growing
Potatoes - slow but going
Garlic - cant even find where i planted it
Pak Choi - bolted
Spinach - got to 4 leaves and bolted

Dire, worst year ive ever had on an allotment, ever.

twiglet98

No, you're not alone.

Blowaway greenhouse had new fleece and outer polythene covers a few weeks ago, when the tomato seedlings were ready to move off the windowsill. It collapsed in the wind, luckily most of the toms can be salvaged as they're still only about 4ins high.

A pallet balanced against one of the compost heaps (to keep the hens out) blew over and squashed a raspberry bush - in a tub, which was supposed to be wedging the pallet in place. Wind was in the wrong direction, obviously.

Fleece laid across tiny purple sprouting plants took some of the plants out when it blew up and off the veg bed. All the blueberry tubs blew over but no major breakages.

And my huge willow finally succumbed. It's been leaning alarmingly for a while, I delayed planting the broccoli as I was sure the tree would land on that raised bed, but it has miraculously missed the veg beds, the chicken fence and both washing lines. It's now an interesting horizontal feature, the kittens love it and there's less grass to cut now we just have to go round it! I can't afford a tree surgeon so will hack bits off myself as and when. Shame I don't have a stove with doors, willow's rubbish on an open fire

I HATE windy weather.

wallbash

Well here in Herts . Was just looking at the strawberries , never looked better, also the raspberries putting on lots of growth , salad is growing faster than I can eat/ give it away.

So all this rain has done some good , lawn is fantastic.

twiglet98

True, the strawberry crop is looking promising, and I put most of the container raspberries into the ground, they're looking ok too.

It's the plants sown this year that are really suffering.

Lotus-eater

twiglet98 wrote: »

And my huge willow finally succumbed. It's been leaning alarmingly for a while, I delayed planting the broccoli as I was sure the tree would land on that raised bed, but it has miraculously missed the veg beds, the chicken fence and both washing lines. It's now an interesting horizontal feature, the kittens love it and there's less grass to cut now we just have to go round it! I can't afford a tree surgeon so will hack bits off myself as and when. Shame I don't have a stove with doors, willow's rubbish on an open fire .

IF you are near me, I will come and get it, pm sent.

ladylouise62

Similar issues here with some stuff not mopving and other stuff keeling ove, but I am pleased to say that he walk-in blowaway greenhouse I got to grow some tomatoes and peppers in was anchored well enough to stay up !!
I got some thick metal stakes from Wilkinsons to build a wigwam for the heavy climbing squash, but thought about hammering them into the ground on the inside of the greenhouse and fastening it all together, then the cover could slip on top. Added to that some weight at the bottom, it seems to have worked a treat (phew!!).

rabidbun

Have duck taped some polythene on today to protect tomatoes in the old blowaways (missing roofs). Course, wind has therefore stopped...

Had leaves lost on grape (was impacting the fence post it is trying to grow up) and tayberries (did not like being a wind break), so tied those up along with a blackberry and raspberry that both looked alarming.

Glad I have a sheltered garden sometimes!

cootambear

strawbs are always ok

my condolences for your losses

Davesnave

The weather's always nice in Devon.:D:o

Our worst winds came from the west, where we're quite well protected, so we lost an aquilegia and lots of tubs fell over. However, they're always falling over.

In the veg garden areas, I weighed the squashes down with blocks of wood, so they were OK. Nothing else seemed to mind. The Lucullus chard were already bolting due to the dry weather a few weeks ago, but the chickens won't care.

The rain was very welcome, as the hay crop wasn't growing well before.