The highlight of the 2025 garden is lots of great musk melons. The corn is also solid this year.
Mid-Summer Garden Bounty
August 21, 2025
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The Garden Winds Down
September 26, 2019
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The garden produced prolifically this year. It was a great year for watermellon and corn. Heck, even the squash lasted for several months before it was wiped out by the squash beetles.
Some of the last of the bounty is coming in now.
Pepper haul Sept
Cayenne
Jalapeño, habañero, hot banana, cayenne
Late September tomato
Pick a peck of peppers
The tomato plans and the peppers have lots more production to go before they peter out. Meanwhile, the corn and the sunflowers are done. So down they come.
Gleaned corn
Now you see it
Now you don’t
I will stand up the husks in a typical Fall display, probably tomorrow.
extra junk
Sunflowers down.
Beheadings galore
Now you see them
Now you don’t
Sunflower poles
Fall.
Winter is coming.
Shadow play
How Does Your Garden Grow: 2017 Edition
June 9, 2017
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It all started with the third and final corn plantation.
A lesson in corn for @foodiewinoSF
Three plantations: 0 days, 2 weeks, 5 weeks pic.twitter.com/dxV12w4MYa
— noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) June 9, 2017
The garden, now features a Sycamore annex
5 hours of gardening today, making up for lost time
corn
Hot pepper looking weak so far
Husk melon
Husk melon
Russian sunflowers (for putin)
Summer squash
gourds and flowers
Tiny watermellon (one day this will be a 20 foot in diameter plant)
Giant pumpkin (smallest plant in the garden)
mini-pumpkins
tomato land
zuchini
tomatillo (first time for me in 30 years)
Sweet peppers (also looking rather skinny)
beans
two varieties of sunflowers
cucumber. lost three plants so far, this is the only survivor
onion and shallot land
corn from the back
brocolli
beets and radishes
brussel sprouts by the strawberry patch
There’s more, but that’s where we stand on June 9th. Two weeks and the beach will render this garden completely different!
Finally some rain
September 10, 2015
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August was very dry in Virginia. The garden, which was as prolific as ever through July, pretty much stopped in its tracks. Corn stopped plumping up. Tomato plants withered in the 90 degree heat. Only the hot peppers thrived.
Finally a soaking rain today.
Ah, finally some rain. pic.twitter.com/VoNGgpQ65p
— noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) September 10, 2015
The Last Tomato Sandwich of the Summer
September 21, 2014
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The equinox will be here in 2 days and it’s still summerlike in Virginia. Sadly, the garden is winding down. There’s stuff to harvest, but that won’t last too much longer.
Two hours of cleaning in the garden happened today.
Corn gone brown.
Corn gone.
Down.
Ghost peppers thriving. Watch out!
Equinox harvest
Sadly, that purple thing is an eggplant. I have failed as a gardener.
The volunteer sycamore is getting too big for the garden now.
Garden Apex in Late August
August 24, 2014
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Garden produce from two days.
When the garden is in high production, picking every day or two is pretty much a good idea. This is probably the last week of super high garden production. After two days, a sweep brought in: corn, tomato, onion, pepper, squash, basil, beet.
There’s plenty more to pick and the garden will likely go into October, but this is likely the peak of production for 2014.
Equinox Harvest
September 22, 2013
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Fall is arriving, both astronomically and in terms of the weather here on Earth.
The Autumn garden cleanup is only 25% complete. Here’s the last big haul.
Harvest on the Equinox
There is plenty of work to do yet to prepare for winter.
Corn down. Sunflower down. Call 911.
Plenty of hot peppers to come.
The last remaining row of giant sunflowers.
Watermellon patch, scraggly last corn and browning tomatoes
