Windpocalypse - Part 1

As many long time readers will remember, my patio is rubbish. Any hint of wind and it's time to batten down the hatches or face the consequences.
Seeing as it's still August you could easily assume that the weather forecast would be sunny with a small chance of a shower. I mean I live in the South-East of the UK for flips sake. As it is the Met Office and the local paper are giving out weather warnings for Saturday afternoon and evening of wind gusts up to 50mph... Let's not panic. What could possibly go wrong?

Yellow = Windpocalypse

The chillis are still doing bugger all apart from the Super Chilli F1 (a hybrid variety) and the Cayenne, which was bought as seeds at a marked down price of 12p from a closing down DIY superstore. The rest just seem to sit there forming flower buds and then dropping them before they even open. Rubbish.

The Super Chilli F1's

Proper heritage chillis not doing much.

The 2 tomatillo plants I've grown, have just spread over the patio in the vain hope that they might get some sun. Fat chance of that. Again there's plenty of flowers, but no fruit. They're horrible lanky, ugly plants and I won't be growing them again. I don't even know if I like the fruit having never eaten them. I doubt they're worth the effort..

Ignore the 3 plants in the foreground, cos I like them.

One of the 2 things that really worries me is the old, crap greenhouse from Robert Dyas as I may have grown a pile of beans up it. Considering it weighs as much as a Meccano kit attached to a helium balloon, I reckon I have every reason to worry. If this falls over then everything on it, and everything under it will be knackered.

Try not to look at the dead peas.

Notice the Cat Protection Scheme.

Now I'm fully aware how crap they are generally considered, but I have had 2 years growing seedlings on mine so far. Admittedly it blew over a few times while it still had it's cover on last year, but as a shelving system it's a bargain in my opinion. Especially if like me, you're short of space, also I've never found a snail on it while the cover was off, so it's a worthwhile tool on my patio as far as I'm concerned, and all for £12! And anyway the cats appreciate it, and the cover it provides thanks to the rubble bags.

What really worries me are the Black Cherry Tomatoes. Obviously these cordon tomatoes need the space to grow to their maximum height. Stupidly I didn't read that bit on the packet and grew them in my tiny greenhouse, which explains why they're hanging out all over the place. A greenhouse so small, I had to take the doors off. If the wind gets as bad as predicted tomorrow, then I have every chance of the greenhouse, and the tomato plants, blowing away. Except they won't actually blow away... They'll just ruin my garden. Joy!

Tomatoes, this morning.

I need a bigger greenhouse. This is only two plants I should add.