"David in Normandy" wrote...

Christina Websell wrote:
I went down the village to my veggie plot today to plant my beans out and
if
I didn't know that no-one can get in, I'd have said they'd been
vandalised.
Almost all the leaves have been snapped off and are lying around but I
guess
it was the huge winds we had yesterday, all day.
My question is, can they recover?


My onions have never blown over; however, my mange-tout peas are now
leaning somewhat after the wind, but they were around 5 feet tall and the 4
feet pea-sticks were somewhat overwhelmed by them. My runner beans are fine
on their wigwams, but it would take a tornado to blow them over at the
moment as they are only half way up the poles... different matter later in
the season though when they make quite a solid wind-break - a good storm
can and has knocked them over in the past.


That is why I use metal scaffold poles, 4 along the length, to keep up the
top poles for our runner bean canes. Once they are grown and full of fruit
and then get wet they are so heavy that they will bend canes and a strong
wind will easily push them over.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK