There have been worse gales than the one we had on Thursday. In fact, the wind wasn’t that strong really. It was just strong and my garden didn’t like it.
I am sure the tomato plants will recover. The flowers are intact and I know already that fruits do form outside.
I’m more concerned about the beans. The borlotti in particular. The broad beans are well adapted to my climate but borlotti perhaps less so.
And good riddance to the poppy plant. I enjoyed the flowers as they greeted me each morning but I do want the ground for other purposes. So, I was pleased the wind in conjunction with lack of rain pulled it out the ground for me!
Growing out of chaos 
We do suffer from winds
Oh dear!
As the crow flies we are just about a mile from the Isle of Wight, so what they get, we get. Never mind, we are learning to take precautions
That’s good 😊
I had just put my tomatoes out for the summer! It was such a lovely day the day before. Had to rush about and put them back indoors again. The lawn is littered with torn leaves from the trees and rose petals like confetti. I’m sure the plants will all recover.
Let’s hope they do! I’ve just taken a peak outside after 24 hours away and am dismayed by the leaf damage.
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Yes, it’s annoying to have wind at this time of year, but does seem to often happen. We didn’t do too badly considering, I just ended up mulching round my lupin with it’s own flowers, since it was not going to recover this year!
Shame your lupin has been damaged. I’ve just been looking at the beans – the ones that grew from seed in the soil are doing better than the ones that started off in the shed. Oh well, what will be will be!
If you can get them through the ‘slug stage’ then direct sown plants do seem to end up stronger plants.
Fortunately, no slugs here – just birds 😊
Hope they recover, Helen. We had the strong winds here too last week, knocking down some trees, branches, etc.
My, those were strong winds, Cynthia!
Wind can be so damaging .. hopefully your plants will be ok.
Thank you, Julie.
I’m sorry to hear about the gale force winds. That’s incredible, and of course unwelcome in your garden. I hope everything recovers. We had an unseasonably windy day last weekend, and came home to our neighbor’s tree uprooted and down across their lawn. We’re all relieved that it fell as it did, avoiding people, animals, cars and the high-tension wires. You’re having a difficult spring and now summer, Helen.
Yes, the weather is a bit of a challenge! What kind of tree came down? How big was it?
Ironically, it is one of three birch trees that our neighbor had just told us was probably dead. I gave him the name of an arborist, but the tree came down before he could call them. It’s probably a 20 foot tree! Again, I’m so glad no one got hurt.
At 20 feet, that could have created some damage!!!
Indeed!