Well, I had an unfortunate sight when I came out to feed the yard cats.
Despite being well anchored, the portable greenhouse still got blown over. You can see that it came apart at some of the connectors. The base wasn’t moving, since it’s well weighted down.
My daughter and I spent the next while rescuing seedlings. The damaged wasn’t as bad as I was afraid it would be, however with so much root disruption, we might lose some transplants. The tomatoes should survive, but the melons are not as hardy.
Once everything was picked up and the frame set back again, my daughter moved two of the tie downs, so it is less likely to get blown over – at least from winds in that direction! We pulled the cover down as best we could, and tried to tuck some of it under the frame itself, though the base was still weighted down so that wasn’t as thorough as it could be. My daughter brought out the clear duct tape to secure some tears. With the plastic coming loose from the zipper so much on one side, she simply taped the cover to the frame itself. We won’t be able to zip it closed anymore.
In the next picture, you can see how we’ve put everything back again, and I moved some of the soil and manure bags to weight down the side that’s getting hit by the wind so much. That, alone, will make a huge difference.
As I was picking up other things that were blown around, I heard a noise from the East yard garden beds.
Everything that had set over the plastic to weigh it down got blown off, all at once, by a single gust of wind.
I didn’t even try to put it back and simply removed the plastic completely. No chance of putting anything to close up the ends of the cover, but hopefully the cats will have no interest in going under there in this wind!
The door to the outhouse got blown open, which I actually saw as a good thing. It means it was successfully straightened out again, after the tree was removed. When the tree fell, enough weight landed on the outhouse to misalign the door frame, and the door was slightly jammed in one corner. It doesn’t have a handle on the outside to pull it open yet, which meant that we had to stick our fingers into the largest gap we could reach into and yank with our fingertips.
Other things were getting blown around, too. Thankfully, the plastic covers on the other beds are holding. No trees have been blown over that I could see. This was the largest fallen branch I found, so far.
Tomorrow, we’re going to have to go through the yard and trees to clean up fallen branches.
Depending on what app I look at, we are at either 27C/81F, 25C/77F or 19C/66F. Our winds are at 40kmh/25mph and will continue through the evening. I’ll probably head out a couple more times before it gets dark, just to check on things. Hopefully, there won’t be any more damage.
Hopefully, our transplants will all survive!
We shall see.
The Re-Farmer
The Re-Farmer 