Runners Trashed by the wind...

[pete10]

Don't know what the rest of the country has been like.But yesterday the wind here in Reading
trashed a row of my runners  :'(. .Managed to save one row just ,Next year metal posts and
net me thinks .

[pete10]

[angle shades]

here in Lincoln wind blowing the wigwams down ::)/shades x

[thomasb]

Its not just runners, here in Oxfordshire I squash plants have been turned over...the long stems are been trashed back and fort in the wind.

Thomas

[Rosyred]

The allotment was fine as I thought about my runner bean wigwam but the tralling bush in my garden going over our garage had to be cut down today as it blew down. The wind was really strong.

[grawrc]

Runner beans intact but a branch has broken off the plum tree.:-[

[pete10]

Sorry to hear that guys just one of them bad weekends for the weather a strange year this one. 

[Roy Bham UK]

Runners fine here and in abundance (must get a bigger freezer) but my "Walking stick cabbage plants" have keeled over :'(

[Mrs Ava]

My old corns took a beating - but they had finished cropping so didn't matter.  My runners are on a permanent structure so they were fine, but plenty others had completely blown over!  Today was incredibly warm and sunny in this part of Essex, but still that wind was a-blowing!

[Grant]

In Manchester.  Runners took a battering but still able to pick them.  My neighbour has had his row of tomatos blown over. 

[moonbells]

Runners OK here but then again they're helped by two permanent posts at either end of the structure, with thick wire strung between them. I tie pairs of canes to the wire,  instead of having a cane across the middle.

Two years ago I lost half of my runners to a September gale (snapped off at the base when the canes snapped) so built the more permanent structure last year. Works well. Just as well - I only got my first decent picking of the things yesterday...

moonbells

[vee]

My runners are almost ready to fall over but if they do they'll squash my sprouts. :o
I tied them to a wall with string and a metal spike.
Just need to remember the string when I walk past now...

[valmarg]

What with the rain and wind, it's been like November with leaves out there.  One wigwam of beans succumbed, but if this is global warming you can stick it!!!

valmarg

[tim]

What IS the name of the Welsh seed supplier - Williams? - nothing to do with gales but, earlier, he said that he had not seen a good set of beans in all his travels this year.

[grawrc]

Tim mine have been incredibly good but only in the last 2 weeks. Until then there was virtually nothing.

[pete10]

The gutter is its only the last few weeks they have really picked up ,I have to admit the poles were
not that great as i put them up in a hurry rushing as i only got the plot in March.

[angle shades]

I had a glut straight away, but don't know why, they didn't get watered in the hot weather and were not tough or stringy. We gave bag fulls away.

The varieties are Scarlet Emperor and White Lady.

Since we had all the rain we have had hardly any beans ::)

[redimp]

My cane rigs stood up to it and it was side on - sometimes it pays to be a scout leader ;D