[hubballi]

I hate the wind too. We seem to get a lot of it lately. Dries out pots, damages plants, makes it unpleasant to work in the garden. Hateful.

[evie2]

Tomato plants haven't faired well the chickens have taken to hiding in conifers and one escaped rabbit found in the poly tunnel eating radish and purple sprouting broccoli 

[Jay The Digger]

My beans went in on Saturday but luckily they havent suffered too badly.

I have wrapped a length of fleece around the bottom of the canes with the plants growing inside to act as a windbreak. 

Everything else is getting pummelled.

[Christine]

The brassicas are unhappy. The rhubarb is lying down. It's too windy to stand up and work at the moment but tomorrow I must go down the plot and fight the good fight. It's not cold - it's pure wind damage.

[arugula]

The potatoes were taking a battering, but the wind has veered round now so they might make it. Not sure how the sunflowers are managing to stand the wind, but they are.

[lancashiregardeninggal]

The potatoes were taking a battering, but the wind has veered round now so they might make it. Not sure how the sunflowers are managing to stand the wind, but they are.

Does your garden have any shelter at all Argyllie or are you completely open to the elements? 

[arugula]

There's a wall running down one side and we gradually have a native hedge growing against the stock fence on the other sides, but no it is pretty exposed and only 100 metres back from the open Atlantic. It depends on which direction the wind is coming from, whether plants are safe or not.

[foxi loxi]

Hey guys
My mini greenhouse (plastic thing) was blown over in the wind today (for the second time this year) and i lost alot of my poor little seedlings, am i to late to resow.......everything    

[GrannieAnnie]

Aww foxi, shame about that!  you can still sow runner and french beans, some of the later carrots, some beetroot, things like leeks and onions won't et very big now, but you can still have a crop, and some of the later brassicas will be fine.

Have a look here to see what John says:

http://www.allotment-garden.org/garden_month/garden-june.php

Good luck!!

[foxi loxi]

Thanks for that Grannie Annie, i was so upset when i saw what had happened, never mind i'm planning on strapping it to the wall    

[Lardman]

Been there ... Done that. June 2008 - It went in the bin shortly after.

[kermit]

Plastic greenhouse has disappeared and all ants around it are trashed. Fruit bushes and rhubarb (which were doing great) look flattened. Gutted. Anymore of this and I'm emigrating. Winter was shocking 2 years in a row, hardly a summer to speak of for 3 years and now blinking tornados.

[foxi loxi]

Seeing that is bringing back raw memories lol
I'm hoping to have a polytunnel or green house for next year so that will sort that out! 

[arugula]

..... Gutted. Anymore of this and I'm emigrating. Winter was shocking 2 years in a row, hardly a summer to speak of for 3 years and now blinking tornados.

Shall we try Italy Kermit?

Some of the potato plants have sustained damage and now have blackened, stripped leaves. I presume there is enough good growth still to allow them to crop - hope so anyway as the damage goes across all varieties. The only other plants sustaining damage are flowers and the hedge, surprisingly, as other veg or herbs are either too small for the wind to get to or not planted out yet. The polytunnel? Its fine too!







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[aelf]

Went down to the plot this morning, much trepadation after a night of battering winds.

I've got off lightly by the look of it - some minor damage to the greenhouse and a few squished cabbages from flying debris. My 7' high hedge has saved me from much worse damage.

Scorching sun, no rain and gale force winds so far this year. What next?