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    Met office wind alert. monday 23 may - I am scared....very scared

    The met office have forecast 70 mph gusts tomorrow and my blowaways are already breaking up captain.

    I do not have the ability to tie them down as they are on a patio.......big plant move this afternoon but most of the tomatoes are too well established to be moved.

    It's going to be a rocky ride for a lot of grapes....take what precautions you can

    Loving my allotment!
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    All the best for tomorrow Newton, I'm Off to check what the met office say for my area.

    just checked and it less for us but still 48 mph
    Last edited by Bren In Pots; 22-05-2011, 08:18 AM.
    Location....East Midlands.

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    • #3
      51 mph gusts forecast here

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        Thanks for the heads up Newton. Not so bad here at 38mph, but still worth some precautions. I thought it was a bit draughty this morning.
        Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
        By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
        While better men than we go out and start their working lives
        At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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        • #5
          I was about to put some of the tomato plants outside but I might be changing my mind

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          • #6
            It's blowing like the chuff here this morning.

            Can't you strap them to the fence/wall? Two big horizontal ropes/wires should do it. Stand your garden furniture up against them too.

            Good luck!
            All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
            Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.

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            • #7
              When I had my blow away I pulled the spare plastic to the inside and held it down with house bricks, then stood my plants on the house bricks. It worked for 3 years...then the heavy snow killed mi blow away this year...R.I.P blow away .

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              • #8
                Weather warning in place for most of Scotland for 70-80mph winds, for tomorrow. I've been out and secured as much as I can but my peas are taking a battering (already). Boo, where is summer?

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                • #9
                  So glad I got my stayput. Last year the wind ripped three of my blowaways up even though they were sandbagged on the bottom shelf. If you can, tape or mastic the struts together, because that's how the wind ripped mine off. All I was left with was the bottom shelves and the sandbags! Good luck.
                  Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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                  • #10
                    That's why I gave up with blowaways!! No matter what I did, either the whole thing blew round the garden, or the cover shredded.

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                    • #11
                      telling us its 10 mph but its more than that a lot more.
                      Gardening ..... begins with daybreak
                      and ends with backache

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                      • #12
                        Its already blowing a gale here - could not understand why the kids (even lil twincesses) all WANTED to play outside this afternoon - me I am going to enjoy some housework for once - if I can get off here of course!
                        Tammy x x x x
                        Fine and Dandy but busy as always

                        God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done


                        Stay at home Mum (and proud of it) to Bluebelle(8), Bashfull Bill(6) and twincesses Pea & Pod (2)!!!!

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                        • #13
                          Wind is dying down a bit here now thank goodness. Hope your house is spick and span Tammy, we know what you're doing
                          Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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                          • #14
                            Windy here today and tomorrow, up to 47 apparently. That's enough thankyou, everythings already been chucked around the garden a few times.
                            I feel sorry for anyone with harder winds. My veg has been well battered already.
                            "Orinoco was a fat lazy Womble"

                            Please ignore everything I say, I make it up as I go along, not only do I generally not believe what I write, I never remember it either.

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                            • #15
                              It's been very windy here all week but it surpassed itself today. Quite a few of my toms were very badly wind-burned when I brought them in earlier.

                              There are about 150 plants in my kitchen now, and they'll probably have to stay in for the day tomorrow.
                              The problem with rounded personalities is they don't tesselate.

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