how did it get to october

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october, i have still plants in the garden that have not bloomed yet, i do not want first frost yet. why does everything go so fast these days? i bought a plastic poly tunnel for the back garden and we put it up next to the greenhouse, i planted salad leaves, cabbage, spinach and winter lettuce. i moved my seedlings in and my plug plants all ready to go through the winter, lovely, i was pleased and quietly smug!. saturday arrived with strong winds forecast in the north,( i live in norfolk), i said to my husband, we will have to check the poly tunnel today, yes he grunted and went back to putting some shelves up in the bed room, i carried on with the washing up. there was suddenly a large gust of wind and i watched my poly tunnel take flight and position itself on my neighbour’s washing line.it’s gone i shouted and we both dived out the front door(i have no back door). my husband ran round to our neighbour and knocked on their door to ask permission to go into their garden but no-one answered so there we were my husband in our neighbour’s garden and me in our’s, trying to stop the thing going further and pull it back into our garden. i had my slippers on and i had been digging out bind weed and nettles out of what would be a new plot, you quessed it, down i went backwards into the hole rolled twice and disappeared under the polytunnel. it is badly mangled some of the joints are broken and i lost a lot of plants and seedlings and all the lables are all muddled up, but my husband thinks he can fix it, so we will wait now until spring to try again which i knew deep in mind that i should have done in the first place

• 5 Oct, 2009
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