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Garden vs. Ian

Hurricane Ian did a bit of damage to the garden, mostly shredding our infant pole beans and flattening the corn. Yet again I was surprised at how much survived the storm intact.

Before the hurricane we put all of our plants in containers inside the garage, like this pepper we salvaged from the summer garden.

The watermelon and our herbs likewise hunkered down with us.

We lost one baby pepper from this plant, but the rest are doing fine.

I think it will take a nuclear bomb to bother the cucumber vines, which are flowering now.

Our pole beans were only a couple of weeks old, and their fragile leaves ended up completely shredded, so we removed the remains and planted new.

Happily it looks like the corn plants are going to make it.

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