Bit of a breeze

[Parsons Jack]

Morning OH,

A nice bright sunny morning here as well. The wind has dropped right down, I'm glad to say.

[Chantal]

It's a beautiful morning here too and not too much damage at the plot (I've just been to check). I'm hoping to work an allotment flexi day today, so if I can scram in before 8am I can finish early.

Byeeeee...

[Geoff]

Just got connected for the first time since Sunday - gale snapped the telephone line into the village and cut us all off. Surprisingly little garden damage, only shredded Broad Beans in the veg area.

[WigBag]

Got away relatively well here in the Vale of York, I had a redcurrant bush lose a couple of lower branches, a wobbly frame for the french beans needed re-anchoring and my CDs hanging amongst the brassicas were all twisted up.
Heres hoping it blew the bugs away!!

[Monika]

We've just got back from a few days on the Lincolnshire coast and got sandblasted on the beach on Sunday! Checked our allotment on our return - with trepidation! - and found that we had lost a few plants, like marrow and cauliflowers, which had been clean snapped off at ground level, but the French beans don't look at all happy. Several of them have lost leaves, so I am going to make another sowing, hoping they will still make it to maturity before the first frosts.

One of our allotment neighbours completely lost his new polytunnel. Apparently, the wind must have got underneath and it took off like a parachute, crashed through three fences and ended up on a farmer's field downwind. The polythene seems intact but the metal is all twisted and unusable. Poor chap. He has now temporarily draped fleece round his tomatoes and peppers. Luckily yesterday and today have been very balmy and reasonably warm.