If you have been following my blog at all then you would know that last year I decided to start an organic vegetable garden. I failed miserably! We had temps of 40+ here and no amount of watering could save my garden. A lot of other people in town had the same troubles.
This year I had a plan! I have planted my seeds already and will be keeping them in my greenhouse until they are well established. I got my head start last weekend and had my greenhouse looking good, here are some pictures.
Looks great doesn’t it? It didn’t last long, I swear the garden gods have something against me! On Thursday we had some pretty hardcore weather. It started with a bit of wind and rain, the wind was pretty strong, I was watching the terracotta pots rattling away on the top shelves from my kitchen window. I stood there wondering if I should maybe put more weight on the bottom bars of the greenhouse or just clear everything out. I decided to have a quick look out the front door towards the west and I saw a massive wall of black and a massive gust blew in and made a mess of the entryway. I saw that as my tip to get everything out.
I ran out to the back yard and started grabbing pots and racing them to my patio table, I kept running back and forth and the lightning started and the heavy rain, I knew I didn’t have long. I started just ditching pots out of the door of the greenhouse and then the mother of all gusts came along and lifted the greenhouse and pegs out of the ground, it flew into me knocking me down and all the pots I had set on the ground and flew away to the very back section of my backyard.
All of my herbs were saved as well as my pumpkin seedlings and eggplant, capsicum and cucumber seedlings. I spent all of yesterday afternoon replanting what was lost and getting the greenhouse out of the backyard to survey the damage. I need to do a LOT of duct tape repairs when it is dry and then I can put my seedlings in again. I will be moving it to a more sheltered location and will definitely be getting some heavy duty pegs to make sure it stays put for the next wind storm that comes our way.
I see my basil has started to sprout as well as the cucumber, I think my Halloween pumpkin is starting to sprout as well, I can’t wait! I will be protecting my garden with shade cloth this summer. I don’t think I can handle another year of a failed garden. Bring on Spring!
Sarah
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