This week, there was some pre-hurricane fun, like the first crop of beans and baby cucumbers. And then, we declared a state of emergency for the garden. See that picture on top? That’s the garden on Friday. See the picture below?  That’s Saturday, after we hauled all the furniture and plants into the house.

To be fair, we moved the plants indoors partly for the plants, but also partly because I was sure the wind was going to pick up the pots and hurl them into our windows, smashing the glass to smithereens and sucking us out into the storm. I mean, right? That could totally happen. So anyway, regardless of why the plants came inside, the bottom line is that we lived in a greenhouse for the weekend. Want to see the pictures of our crazy indoor jungle? Click on through, and don’t think I’m not going to share the cute cucumber photos as well!

That’s my office. With all the plants loaded in there, it felt very Jumanji. Like, if we closed the door for ten minutes, vines would have climbed all the walls and maybe some sort of jungle cat would have taken up residence in the corner by the printer. Luckily, we left the door open, so we were safe. Phew!

This is the living room plant collection. From here, you can see the plants piled on top of the patio table, but you can’t see the many more piled underneath. Sitting on the couch, watching movies to pass the hurricane, you could of course smell the popcorn we’d popped, but it never quite overpowered the smell of wet dirt…

The only plants that had to stay outside were the vegetables in my raised vegetable bed. We took the planter off the tables it was resting on (fearing it would be blown over), but then the planter itself was just a touch too wide to fit through the office doors and too heavy to move all the way to the living room. Look how lonely it looks!

The good news is that although the cucumbers, tomatoes, etc. are a little wind-tattered, they weren’t completely blown away. Check back next week for some before-and-after photos. We’ll see how they do!

This morning, under lovely blue skies, we moved all the plants back outside. Plenty of reorganizing needs to happen, but three cheers for the garden for surviving its first hurricane!

And of course, you need your pre-hurricane photos. How cute is this baby cucumber?

And I’ll tell you what, these beans were delicious.

Fingers crossed that the beans and the cucumbers don’t protest being left outside by refusing to produce anymore.

Tags: hurricane irene, this week in the garden