Late Winter Bits and Bobs 2022.

[Westi]

What a great idea Compo! And perfect timing to check it's success but I suspect your greenhouse will be one of the few standing.

Well Eunice was a strange old storm down this way, great long gaps between the gusts, but when they came they came with a vengeance. I fared OK at home, but I have a great view of the new neighbours garden on one side as they lost their fence, quite a bit of it in my front garden & around the close. The quay was closed with barricades & the waves were going over the whole of the car park (4 rows of parking) & running through the tree barrier into the way out road. (I didn't see that but sent hubby out for cat food). Record 122mph gust at The Needles so not surprising as that is directly opposite so we got the big waves. I'm looking forward to going on the local community site on FB to see the pics taken as they should be pretty dramatic.

I sincerely hope you all came out unscathed.

[Compo]

Visited tonight after a day at work and the greenhouse was in tact. Sadly some others were not

[robo]

The wind dropped at around 10 am this morning then stayed relative calm till 8 pm tonight we then had a two hour spell of strong gusts with hail and rain now it’s calm again

[Compo]

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Some other greenhouses did less well

[Shallot Man]

Compo. Could be worse, but at the moment cant think how.

[Geoff]

Well your reinforcement did the job, I assume that's a neighbour's greenhouse, did that tunnel have a cover on it?

We were better off up here for once, we had some 50 mph gusts and a ½ hour power cut but everything seems OK. Not been out much, wind has gone but......

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[retropants]

That happened to my greenhouse in 2017. Luckily we were leaving the plot the following year, so we just binned it all. Such a shame for those that were lost, really sad for the owners .

[Westi]

Compo I think you should patent your idea for keeping the greenhouse intact, that really should come as a standard fixing for all greenhouses. So many pictures on the garden sites of disintegrated greenhouses that are so trashed & twisted they will not be able to be repaired. Many also will not be able to afford to replace.

[peter]

A greenhouse on plot 20 flew over plot 19, my two plots 18 &17, landing on the path between me and plot 16. Amazingly it was a bare frame only, no glazing of any sort on it before the storm
Equally amazing it was complete but repackaged as a one foot thick sandwich, bar one "nazi" bar poking out.

Like when you make a square frame and go to move it and it folds in. Bottom left corner meets top right corner. But this was neatly done in three dimensions!

[snooky]

Looking at Compo's photo's I wonder if there is more blue water pipe being used on allotment sites and gardens for protection than there is for carrying water around the streets!!!

[Geoff]

Well it amused me

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[Stephen]

I use blue water pipe too, with small market traders clips to hold the netting in place.

We lost a single pane of glass in the wind and, of course the clips supporting it.
The rope tied right around the mini polytunnel held the door closed but the whole thing has been blown onto an angle. We let it be and when there is a break from the storms, we will look to see if it has just lifted on one side or blown slightly out of shape.

[Geoff]

I know we've discussed (or was it moaned about?) magazine timing before and had it explained but April in February!!!!

[oldherbaceous]

I was thinking that too, Geoff!

[Shallot Man]

Probable no different from local gardening centre putting out the Xmas things in August.