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been upto the allotment to tidy up wind damage. who else has suffered
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my plot march 2013http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvzqRS0_hbQ
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Not got there yet! Was thinking about a walk up there when the heavens opened again and we're back to monsoon season. At home I'm hoping the wind will finally blow my neighbour remaining third of fence down and they might do something about getting it repaired! The rest blew down early January. -
Much too windy to get up to the lottie yet! We've had lashing rain here since about 8pm last night and I don't think it's eased off once. This morning as I drove along I passed two trees down and one road almost completely flooded. The lottie is going to have to wait for yet another day, sadly.Forbidden Fruits make many Jams.Comment
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Hoping we can get up there tomorrow as the forecast is a bit better ......hope my tadpoles haven't been washed away
S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
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I ran out this morning into the rain to rescue my blueberry pots - they were positioned under an overflowing gutter that was neatly ejecting the compost from the pots. Other than that, the only things at risk on the allotment was a half filled dalek I thought might upend itself and that's still in place, and the blowaways in the garden haven't blownaway so far (although I've now wedged a bench against the 4-tier as it was flapping a fair bit). Apparently that's the worst of it for us, touch wood.Proud member of the Nutters Club.
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been a brilliant day up here. Unfortunately spent the day helping elderly relatives get their veg planted so my own stuff is still to catch up with and looks like we are to get the weather tomorrow as it sweeps northwards
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Just had my first venture outside. Lots of branches off the trees, quite a few of a size that I wouldn't want landing on my head. The only tree casualty looks to be a wintering flowering cherry, the one with red leaves, that seems to have been rocked and is leaning against a garden wall.
Saw a wood pigeon, that seemed unable to fly but couldn't get near it as it went into the brambles.
Wind seems to be easing and light rain only now. Hope it has moved on.Comment
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We have about 5 Massive Conker trees behond the garden fence and if one was to fall it would still reach the house.last year we had some massvie Branches fall and the council came and removed any "dangerous" ones so hopefully they will be okay but they are really being batterdOnly after the last tree has been cutdown Only after the last river has been poisoned Only after the last fish has been caught Only then will you find
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they might not get it repaired, its much cheaper to just take it down like i did with mine. the more it breaks the more it costs to fix so less chance of it happening.Originally posted by WendyC View Post
would it be worth mentioning it before it gets past repair. or offer to add a bit of support from your side to hold it up while they get round to fixing it. maybe they just cant afford to fix it just yet.
offering a little help might inspire them and saves upsetting them and just makes the conversation easier to start.
fencing is so expensive for how long it lasts, and fencing that lasts costs a fortune.
on the other side of me the fence is falling apart, it is next doors fence but he asked me if i could support it to help it last a bit longer as he cant afford to replace it at the moment.
even though we dont get on we had a nice friendly chat about the gardens and the fence and both of us came to a happy arrangement. i offered to get a few short half round posts and put them in but did say it would take me a bit of time to get round to it.
i have a dog so do need to have a fence there so have to be fair with the fence that side even though its not my responsibility.
never hurts to come to a comprimise.
no wind damage for me but i have nothing growing out there yet. polytunnel survived.Comment
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When we had the snow a few weeks ago I had to 'rescue' my blowaway from a neighboring field where it was stuck in a large patch of brambles. Ive since bought 10 40cm corkscrew thingys to anchor it into the ground and they seem to be doing the trickComment
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Dalek bin blew about.
Tarps working loose
Shed felting roof ripped
Blow away mangled (second battering in a week though)
Weed fabric blown off.
That's all I can see and none of it is from my plot.Comment
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Originally posted by woody21 View Post
One panel is shredded - totally beyond repair. I just keep passing bits that blow into our garden back into theirs. There are two posts broken and two panels that needs replacing. I have propped it up from my side otherwise it would be laying over my borders. They are not impoverished just on their side it is behind shrubs and can't be seen from the house. We had 4 or 5 conversations about it needing repairing since it broke in early January but it's always "yes must get round to it". Think I'm going to by some reed screening and staple it across so I don't have to look at it.Comment
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the only damage is one of my blowaway that the zip is broken... i don't know about my pots because even if they have drainnage hole the compost look so wet and some of them have carrot seeds, spring onion seeds, peas seeds... they have been there for 1 week and i hope something will germinate considered that i have sown thickly...Comment
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After torrental rain yesterday we had the wind today. No damage except for some small branches down. Spent a hairy couple of hours in the tunnel potting on tomatoes at the height of it. The noise was incredible.Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poetComment
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No problems in the garden, apart from a lot of twigs and lots of puddles, poor chooks were looking very wet, silly things were insisting on staying out though, so it was their fault. My new pop up culti greenhouse was still miraculously tethered and still in the same place I left it. Unbelievable as the wind and rain were really hammering down.
Really tired tonight though as didn't sleep more than 2 hours, woken by drips on the bed and leak through roof and into bedroom. The ping ping ping into the bucket was unbearable - but I was also scared it might get worse and I wouldnt notice if I went into the spare room - hence no sleep listened to the world service all night.
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