Unpredictable Wind

 We live on the Gippsland Plains, with the mountains visible to our north and it gets windy here mainly over the Spring. It gets windy enough to wreck a vegie garden, including tomato plants and anything else that grows low, like zucchini's.

Two years ago it got so bad we had to go to Bunning's to get star posts so we could put up a shadecloth surround to break the wind. It worked and now we are seen putting up our shadecloth wind break, because we've found it works.

We now have a frame around/over the tomato bed and have enough shadecloth to make a great wind-break around the garden. In the photo below, we have the shadecloth set up for wind, but if it gets hot we can simply open up the existing "wall"and protect from the sun.