The WIND, the WIND!

[tim]

NEVER underestimate it's power. At my age, you might think that I had learned my lesson? Especially after it shifted our 30 foot greenhouse  on its foundations some years ago. Stupid people!!

Covered the cold frame as usual last night - a temporary one, without a hinged top - covered with a sheet of twinwall, weighted down with a 20lb slab. So - this am - plastic in the next garden, & brassica seedlings flattened. Oh, well! - all grist to the mill! = Tim

[tim]

[Palustris]

Annoying though, ain't it.
What I want to know is why it is that the second the Cherry blossom comes out, the wind blows and I have a beautiful pink lawn and a naked tree?
We have had to stop putting any sort of lif on the frames, except for some toughened glass since if the wind cannot remove the lids, it removes the frames as well.

[Yorkie]

I hate wind more than I hate cold!  A Laplarch fence is a disaster once the wind gets over about 15 mph. My last fence disappeared in a gale about three years ago and now I have an alternate paling fence with concrete posts and a one foot high gravel board. The wind can get through the gaps, my privacy is ensured with the alternate paling and only a gale which exceeds about force eight is likely to cause the fencing to move.

Despite all this: the poor old Daffodils have taken a beating. The flowering cherry trees are just coming into bloom and I expect we'll get the same problem of wind blowing the petals all over the place.  :'(

[gavin]

And the rain!

And believe it or not there are crazier things than the garden on a day like this.  Me?  If I'm going to be a stupid pillock, I'll make a good job of it - so 8-year old's first proper bike ride, about 8 miles, down the old railway line to Castleford.

We made it!  Beautiful ride - but the weather!

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All best - Gavin

Hey - and there's a brilliant pub almost at the far end of the ride; so it's not quite so daft as it sounds!  :) :)

[Wicker]

Gavin, Not following the thread I know but have to mention your wee cyclist - very cleverly done!

[Mrs Ava]

BooHoo.....bl**dy wind....bet my fleece is nowhere to be seen!  :'(

[ruud]

Went to my allotment to see if my cold frame survifed this gail,who is blowing already for 24 hours.I was lucky but my neighbour wasnot so lucky lost some windows of his glasshouse.Forcast wasnt so good either hard wind till easter with wet snow and hail.I think i am in a depression,bl*****dy wetter.

[tim]

Gavin - going like the wind?? Clever.


Local weather report was 14mph - the chap ought to have been standing next to me - nearly hit by a 10' plank sheltering my cultivator!! = Tim

[Wicker]

Feel quite humbled folks  :-[.  Reading about the weather down south has been getting has made me realise here (Edinburgh at least) we have been pretty lucky or maybe its that I always thought "way down south" the weather was normally much milder than here.  Maybe climate change is true and it's getting much more extreme down your way,

We still get bad weather though - hailstones then sun repeatedly has been the pattern of the day here.

[ina]

Here in Holland too! The pretty new poly tunnels torn.