My Garden Survived

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Published: 17 Dec 2021 › Updated: 17 Dec 2021 My Garden Survived

My Garden Survived

An Oklahoma Windstorm

I bought bulk netting and frost cover cloth, cut and hand-stitched to fit over my row-covers frames.

We had a windstorm this last Wednesday, 12/15/21; the winds were up to 50 miles an hour, I had a shade cloth over my greenhouse bare frame, and I staked it behind the chicken's house. The wind used the shade cloth as a sail and picked the whole thing up and over my chicken fence. I wanted to move the frame there anyway. I removed the shade cloth and flipped the frame over on its feet, and next time, I'm sinking my stakes in cement!

After replacing the clips in the high wind six or seven times during the day, I pulled the covers off so they wouldn't blow into my neighbor's yard. No worries about my collards, kale, lettuce, onions, cilantro, radishes, and Japanese mustard didn't freeze. Our weather has been in the 60s and 70 degrees the last two weeks. It looks like no snow for Christmas!

It only took around 15 minutes to cover and secure my homemade raised bed frost covers!

Tomorrow I'm buying some cement and gravel to set my tent stakes. I hope we don't get any more wind storms here in Oklahoma. I guess hope is for the hopeless.

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