Ex-hurricane Bertha this weekend

[Bigmallly]

I feel like crying at the bloomin wind. It has made a mess of my beans and peas, stripped the leaves off one type I just hope they can recover. After half a dozen attempts just to get them started this is how they look today.

Poor things were horizontal. I've straightened 'em the best I can.............

[veggiechicken]

Snap BM, I've just done the same with them - poor things won't know what they're doing

[chris]

Was unbelievably windy here over the weekend. Wondered why, now I know ( yes my head has been in sand for the past couple if weeks).

Belting down here at the mo too.


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[Aberdeenplotter]

I feel like crying at the bloomin wind. It has made a mess of my beans and peas, stripped the leaves off one type I just hope they can recover. After half a dozen attempts just to get them started this is how they look today.


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been really rough here today as well. The canes I grow my exhibition peas up are at 45 degrees. Weeks and weeks of daily attention for nowt as the pods which should have a lovely bloom and be blemish free are bashed and bruised. I feel the same. You have my sympaffy KCN xx

[Two_Sheds]

A few of my bean teepees are down, and the biggest sunflowers. Also down was my 7ft seeding beetroot, but its seeds are still going to be OK

[mothhawk]

Sorry to read of the damage sustained by KCN and AP. It's heart-breaking after all the hard work, whether you grow to eat or to show.

I have been very fortunate in spite of vicious winds, only leaf damage, nothing down.

I thought everything would be knocked over after the winds yesterday but it's all crammed so close, the toms were sheltered by the beans which are growing up the sunflowers which were protected by the raspberries which are secured to the fence (which has concreted-in posts), and the whole lot sheltered the brassica cage and the sweet peas behind it.

[richie3846]

Just got back from a long weekend away to find my five-planter runner bean frame with around 40 bean plants 9 feet tall laying completely horizontal on a load of courgettes! I dashed out there, managed to pick the whole structure up to find no damage to either the beans or courgettes, except for a few bent courgette leaves phew!

Bearing in mind I stripped all medium and large pods off on Thursday, I picked around 2kg runners this evening. Perhaps there's something to be said for laying down on the job! Less gravity to fight against I suppose...

[Penellype]

Sorry to hear that people have had things damaged. My beans look a bit drunk, but have just about held up. Some of the tomato plants are a bit worse for wear with bent over stems, a couple of which are badly split. Knowing that tomatoes are pretty good at surviving this sort of thing, I'm going to leave them and see what happens. The main casualty was the fruit cage, but that fell down before Bertha even arrived!

[bramble]

Got up on Sunday morning to find half of my plum tree lying on the ground. With the heavy rain, the wind and the weight of the plums the branch broke off completely. The worst thing is the plums are only beginning to ripen.
Is there any way I can ripen them enough to make jam? they are still on the branch.

[petep]

I just saw the Scottish forecast: looks like heavy rain tomorrow. Not what we need after a day of gales.


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[Penellype]

Got up on Sunday morning to find half of my plum tree lying on the ground. With the heavy rain, the wind and the weight of the plums the branch broke off completely. The worst thing is the plums are only beginning to ripen.
Is there any way I can ripen them enough to make jam? they are still on the branch.

I haven't grown plums myself, but most fruit will ripen if you keep it for a while, providing that the process has started. I would pick the plums and lay them out in a single layer, and keep an eye on them in case any are bruised and go rotten. If you leave them on the ground the slugs will have them before they ripen.

[Noosner]

It was raining all night here again in Biblical proportions - and really chilly. But I'd staked the PSB plants yesterday and wired my bean construction onto what is left of the fence, and the whole thing survived the night. My tattered French beans have even grown a centimetre or two over the last couple of days and my outdoor cucumber produced three more little cucs!

[Bex]

This weather is nuts. I've not been able to get to the lottie since Friday with the weather being so bad. It seems to be nice all day long and then when I leave work the heavens open. I've got soaked to the skin two nights in a row now just walking to my car.

I need to get there tonight come hell or high water, my beans will stop producing otherwise and my courgettes will be marrows.

[Nicos]

Noticed one of our small, but heavily laden apple trees on it's side.
Half the rootball is attached so we've staked it and are crossing our fingers it will recover.

I think it'll always be vulnerable now?

Gutted really cos it's a 12 yr old tree which has struggled after we moved it here 6 years ago from our UK plot and thus was it's first year it was back to fruiting heavily....typical eh?

[lyndapet]

Noticed one of our small, but heavily laden apple trees on it's side.
Half the rootball is attached so we've staked it and are crossing our fingers it will recover.

I think it'll always be vulnerable now?

Gutted really cos it's a 12 yr old tree which has struggled after we moved it here 6 years ago from our UK plot and thus was it's first year it was back to fruiting heavily....typical eh?

i had to do the same to a plum tree 3 years ago and it seemed to breath new life into it.Hope the same applies to your apple


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