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General => The Shed => Topic started by: ACE on August 10, 2019, 22:31:55
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75mph winds roaring through the garden but there are still plenty of apples and pears on the trees. I have not been to the allotment yet but as it came from the south the copse would have tamed the wind a bit before it got to my plot. Fingers crossed. I was on a bus that the doors got blown in and I am sure went over on two wheels at one time and e had to wait while trees were removed from the roads.
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I popped down to the plot yesterday as we needed some veg for a BBQ in the evening.
Climbing beans ain't climbing anymore! Sweetcorn at 45 degrees and a few flattened toms. Have to go visit later today as it was a waste of time trying to stand everything up in the wind..
Picked two buckets of apples off the garden lawn!
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Apart from the brassica net being blown about everything seems alright. The re-bar bean structure stood up well but they do look a bit wind burnt.
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My beans were on the deck this morning but are back up now and like Ace my apples have been thinned, not june drop but the August fling.
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The met office has just issued a tornado warning for the Isle of Wight. Fingers crossed they are wrong.
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I hope they're wrong. Tornadoes ripped thru the Netherlands and Luxembourg at the weekend. Not pretty.
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Didn't happen, what next, a plague of frogs?
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Went down to find one of my old apples (Emneth) has thrown a branch under the weight of fruit. As it is an early cooker I'll collect the fruit tomorrow, when it might stop raining... and start preping apple pies for the freezer...
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Very small apples which come off can be made into a puree for the pectin. I freeze them in ice cube blocks then pop a couple into jams.