not happy

[ailsasyl]

Woke up last night looked at clock 1.55am, and its pouring outside and blowing a gale, then at 2am crash, looks out and my 4 tier greenhouse is laying face down
It was against the house on the patio, had two heavy old square raidator bricks on the bottom shelves and was full of trays and pots with flower and veg seeds most of which were already coming through.
Have spent the last hour and half rescueing what I could, doing this is still high winds now have them all safely upstairs on the shelving i have from a second greenhouse which I han't set up yet.
Now all I got to do is try and figure out whats what as not one of the labels had stayed in the pots, am even more gutted as lots of the flower seeds had been sent by kind grapes and was planning to take photos once they were in my newly design front garden, still will but the plants may not be where they should be as I no longer know what they are

Going off to sit in Waynes Zen garden to calm down, hope its nice and calm there and no wind!!!

[shirlthegirl43]

What a shame! Good luck with the rescues and the identification.

Hugs to make you feel better for all the hassle.

Blooming wind!

[pipscariad]

Poor you, what a pain of a thing to happen, that wretched wind causes some problems doesn't it. Good luck with you seedling i.d., hope you haven't lost too much. ((((hugs))))

[Rhona]

Oh I'm sorry. My heart sank for you when I read that. Not a lot to say that will help, just that you will feel better in a couple of days, when you've got things sorted out a bit more. Hope the weather improves too! xxx

[SarzWix]

Big (((((hugs))))) for you. Lots of us have had this happen, and it is sooo devastating, all your hard work...

On the bright side though, I've usually managed to salvage much more than I thought I would initially. (I say usually, because it's happened twice to me with mini greenhouses, and once with a staging collapse in the big one!)
You might have to grow them on in little pots for a bit longer than you planned to, so that you have a bit more time to ID them.

Hope you're feeling a bit better now hon.

[ailsasyl]

amazing what a cuppa and a bar of Galaxy can do!!

Have kept all the labels in the hope I will manage to id some, can replace most of the veg as have plenty of veg seeds, still have some flower seeds so hopefully will still have enough to fill uo the beds,
Just wish the weather was better so I could get on and finsih landscaping the garden so I had a place for everything, am on hols over the easter hols so fingers crossed for better weather so I can get loads done!

[SlugLobber]

I feel your pain. Exactly the same thing happened to me last year. What really upset me was that the greenhouse (a walk in one) was a present from my friends/colleagues at the place of work I'd just left. It was up for just over a week and all the new seedlings were just coming through (that they had also bought). The frame was completely destroyed, so I couldn't even rebuild it. I had weighed it down enough, but the vibrations from the wind broke the brackets and the poles then tore through the PVC.

I tried a mini-one this year, but that did almost the same thing - also a present, from OH, at Christmas. I've managed to convert it from 5 tier to 4 tier and I've moved it, but it doesn't get half the light it used to. I tried what you did, salvaging earth and seeds from the floor, but ended up starting again. I'd never entertain a PVC greenhouse, if it wasn't for the lack of space. Hope you have more success.

[janeyo]

OH NO!

Bummer. Hope it looks a bit worse than it actually was.

And hope the winds die down, it's been pretty windy here and I added some extra bricks to mine just in case....

[HeyWayne]

Going off to sit in Waynes Zen garden to calm down, hope its nice and calm there and no wind!!!

I can't guarantee that - I've just come back from the pub. That said, I didn't have onions in me burger.

A similar thing happened to me last year so I screwed my greenhouse down onto the decking/sleepers. I had seeds/onions/pots/labels all over the shop.

[piskieinboots]

you truly have my heart-felt sympathies ailsasyl - that is just rotten luck

[FROSTYFRECKLE]

I was trying to get from Arran on Monday morning. It was bad there, then as the ferry reached Ardrossan I realised just how bad the wind was on the mainland. The ferry couldn't leave Ardrossan port first thing on Monday. Didn't realise how badly affected Ardrossan can be with the wind. I've got loads of petunia and marigold seedlings if you want, can give you them on the 11th. They are on the bathroom windowsill, the only way they are getting blown over is if the wind takes my bungalow. Bummer about the greenhouse.

[ailsasyl]

If I'd known you could of popped in for a cuppa! It does get windy here, although Arran does protect us a good deal when it snows, use to travel all over Ayrshire in my last job and we definately have a mini climate can be dry here and pouring or snowing 5 miles away!
Plants would be much appreciated! Have a lot of ground to fill and as I am on hols over Easter hoping, weather permitting to get loads done! Many thanks!
Looking forward to the 11th

[Alice]

I'm so sorry to hear that Ailsa and can understand why you are upset. If some of your seedlings make it you will recognise them once they get into their real leaves. And the only consolation is you still have time to start again.

[tricky]

I think it happens to us all at somepoint .
This year it was abbeys turn (my moggy) she demolished one tray of toms.
Swept the compost up and surprising about 12 seedlings came up fom 15.All was not lost.
I think you wll be surprised Ailsa

[ailsasyl]

Well so far so good, it looks like a lot of my seedlings have survived their near death experience! Now just to Id them even if I don't will stick them in front garden and see what happens was going for cottage garden anyway!