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My poor beans are getting whipped about like no-one's business and my neat pile 'for burning' has swept perennial weed roots all over my freshly dug beds!

It's June for goodness sake! And we've already had one tornado in Birmingham in the last year!

Hurumph. Feeling a little better now - deep breath and off to work on further damage avoidance...

Tell me about it, my beautifull corn....

I had to do some damage control on the allotment this morning, stick earth around the ones that had fallen and also put support around them.

As for the damage caused in my back yard to the more vunerable plant in small pots. somehow one of my pepper plants managed to come loose from its pot and loose its pot. I could not find one big enough to fit it so had to plant it out. bloody wind

good wind-generating day!

Ha! Of course it must be the perfect weather for you Martin

Good to know it is welcome for some of us - though it is hard to keep smiling when chasing plants, pots, weed roots etc around our plot (bad for us long-haired folk too eh Andy? Have consumed more hair than strictly necessary today)!

I have found that my runners have almost all fallen down off their poles and so have been forced to wrap netting around the frame - they find this a little easier to climb up and hang on to I am finding... Fingers crossed for a more June-like weekend (except where Andy is generating energy!)...

Oops, I meant Martin!

Think the wind has knocked my brain about!

Andy Hamilton wrote:Tell me about it, my beautifull corn....

My cat has been eating the leaves of my sweetcorn - cos he has a thing about eating grass, so I can't grow ornamental ones and he thinks the corn is a grass.

I think all cats like eating grass, mine are indoor cats and one of them tries to eat plastic. My theory is the shine off it triggers an automatic response that says 'shiny equals grass and grass is good so I should eat it'

Clare

Try planting curry plants near to the corn - I hear cats dislike the smell!

stuff some holly clippings around the base of the plants - slugs aren't keen on it either. And plant some catnep somewhere else - it might satisfy the urge for fibre and is certainly good for a laugh!

Thankfully he can't get in the veg patch - these were the young plants in pots by the back door - they've all been either planted out or transferred to veg patch to await planting out now.

I don't know what it is,but we can almost guarantee that within a couple of days of planting out our runners,we get 'the wind from nowhere' that causes havoc!