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  • Yesterday strong winds

    Good Afternoon

    Anyone else lose anything in the strong winds yesterday? I got home to find that my two "blow aways" were lying on their sides and had knocked over a lot of plants. Fortunately there was nothing in the blow aways themselves but it was probably my fault for leaving the door open.
    Built for comfort, not speed!

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    We've got tree branches and stuff down: my sunflowers & sweetcorn were knocked over in last week's gales
    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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    • #3
      my lawnmower cover is in a tree

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      • #4
        Lots of apples off the tree before their time, and quite a few pots blown over - BUT THE TENT IS STILL WHERE I LEFT IT!!!

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        • #5
          What strong winds??

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          • #6
            I have 3 blowaways that are weighed down by stones/sandbags/anything heavy I can find on the bottom shelves. Lose the shelf space, but not the blowaway!
            Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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            • #7
              Originally posted by lynda66 View Post
              my lawnmower cover is in a tree
              I read that as "my lawnmower is in a tree" I did a double take. I should really stop speed reading.
              "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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              • #8
                What on earth are blowaways?
                Tour of my back garden mini-orchard.

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                • #9
                  Yes!

                  Our hops support canes all blew over. Fortunately nothing damaged and all is now happy again.

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                  • #10
                    Blowaways are the small "greenhouses" with a plastic cover usually 3 to 5 tiers. They are good for small gardens.

                    They are nicknamed blowaways for the fact that they have a habit of blowing away in a stiff breeze!!

                    They are still very useful though!

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                    • #11
                      Lost 2 sheets of polycarbonate out of my GH, snapped 2 sweetcorn, and dislodged a load of green toms from my baskets
                      Last edited by Davyburns; 08-09-2010, 12:10 PM.

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                      • #12
                        our pollyhaus (4x2x2 meters) is very carefully trenched into the ground all the way round, buried a good 8 inches under. Touch wood, no problems.

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                        • #13
                          i grow my veg in containers and the wind managed to blow over my tomatoes, courgettes and chillis. luckily only a few toms got knowcked off, everything else was still in one piece.
                          http://pot-to-plot.blogspot.com/ My brand spanking new plot

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by womble View Post
                            I read that as "my lawnmower is in a tree" I did a double take. I should really stop speed reading.
                            You and me both Womble I read it as my lawnmowver is covered in a tree!
                            http://meandtwoveg.blogspot.com

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by solway cropper View Post
                              What strong winds??
                              I wondered that too - looks like we escaped more than a stiff breeze round here, was much windier Bank Holiday weekend.

                              Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

                              Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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