Blinkin' Wind!

[Andromeda]

The winds haven't been bad here (yet!) but I swear someone is trying to drown my veg. The drainage from my beds is excellent but yesterday it was raining faster than the water could drain and this morning my beds were more like bogs...very unusual outside of a winter snow melt. Hopefully it will stay drier today and give the excess a chance to drain away, it seems most of us are having to fight for our produce this year

[veggiechicken]

Where do you live, Andromeda. Could you put it on your profile please?
Once we know we may move closer to you!

[rustylady]

Whereabouts are you Andromeda? Would help if you add your location to your profile, then we won't have to keep asking. Here in Sunny Suffolk it is wet and windy, so much so that they have cancelled the Suffolk Show.

[Leeds_lad]

We escaped the wind up here, thank god!
Seems like W .yorkshire is getting the good end of the stick this year, no hosepipe ban and no really extreme weather (yet that is)

[Andromeda]

Whereabouts are you Andromeda? Would help if you add your location to your profile, then we won't have to keep asking. Here in Sunny Suffolk it is wet and windy, so much so that they have cancelled the Suffolk Show.

I'm in West Yorkshire - I'll amend my profile (I'm terrible for things like that )

[dominic10]

Really really windy here on the south costs yesterday and today but sunny today. Just had a quick walk around the garden - no trees down yet just loads of branches. Flying plant pots but no plants damaged here that I can see. Never had to put three canes round my toms before. OH on allotment building our last raised bed. Strange how we have the worst weather I can remember on the year we get our half plot...but at home I have 3 strawberries changing colour. And we are supposed to be going to a barbecue later, cooking at home just in case.

[kentishgal]

Its not too bad here. Really windy but the rain stopped a few hours ago, just more grey skies.
It is making me realiese that a small garden isnt always a bad thing though! Its fairly sheltered as nothing is too far from a fence!LOL Also the raised bed that were never filled with soil are provided mini wind breaks for everything.
Apparently my spinach loves this weather though, its growing like crazy!

[shona_b]

horrid gusty wind here in Bournemouth my one and only melon plant got tipped of the shelf in the lean to greenhouse and is no more "sob sob". the shelf also splatted 3 tomatoes and a couple of cucumbers - the cucumbers will survive repotting but the tomatoes have had it - luckily there are plenty more to replace them as managed to germinate far too many this year! don't want to think what the plot will look like - there will be bean wigwams all over the site i think!

[Two_Sheds]

Just been up the lotty, about a quarter of my broadies are now snapped and lying on the ground

Wigwams are still up though, small mercies

[veggiemad]

Just been out to the garden and the peas are hanging on for dear life!! Some of my potato stalks have snapped but other than that it's looking OK.

On a positive note the blowaway is still there

[Kaiya]

Dreading going to the lottie today/tomorrow. I planted out 40 sweetcorn, 3 courgettes, 4 squash, 4 cucumber and many radish on Wednesday, and I fear they may well have suffered. At least I ran out of time to plant out the French beans. My mulch keeps blowing away as well, which isn't so helpful!

I'm at work in my office and we got told today the heating can't be turned on because it's 'summer'. It's freezing In April the heating couldn't be turned off, because it was 'winter', so we had to open the windows to save dying from heat.

[rustylady]

Still bladdy raining here, and windy with it, and dark too. I wanna go to bed

[bradlo]

Pretty sure my courgettes are gonna be drowned!!!!!
First year growing too !!
Oh well, batten down the hatches!

[Gemmalaveen]

It is very windy here in North Hampshire... I tried to do a bit of gardening this morning but the sight of my broad beans all lying horizontally made me feel miserable. None of them have snapped yet so I am hoping they might get up again when the sunshine arrives tomorrow (allegedly).

[Drea]

I've just been out, have tried to straighten my canes out as much as possible. Things aren't as bad as I first thought, a lot of the potato stems have snapped but not all of them, they are just drooping down so I'm hoping they might perk up again if it ever stops raining!

The tomatoes and strawberries are being pulled out, roots and all so I tried to bury them a bit but there's not a whole lot I can do in this weather. Runner beans are looking sulky but relatively ok apart from a couple of leaves being lost to slugs.