This is a Stapelia gigantia. In bloom, it smells like rotting meat...

Garden Report: 9.22.008

Hello Garden Freaks! It's been a wonderful month in the world of gardening here in sunny hot nasty traffic-snarled red state hell idiot loving 21st century slavery having Floriduh! I'll tell ya, if I didnt have a garden to escape to once in a while, I'd be going completely berserk in this cess pool of blissful ignorance, blight, and moral decay. Luckily for me I do have a garden and here's what's new:

We picked the watermelons:
The first one was a Moon and Stars and was pretty juicy but not very sweet. The coolest part were the natural water movement spiral patterns similar to a hurricane or a galaxy that you can kind of see in the picture to the left. Very celestial. It took about a week to eat and I finally just ended up making some watermelon smoothie toward the end. We'll be eating the others this week. In some sad news, this watermelon just didn't have what it takes to make it in my yard. Shame...

Between working full time and getting beat up by the cops and thrown in jail in Minnesota, I did miss some crucial gardening time. Today marks the fall equinox and I was hoping to have some more stuff in the ground by now to kick in the fall growing season but, well-ya do what ya can...

The Asparagus beans are doing pretty good:

And the papayas are coming along. I've lost track of how many I've planted in the yard, but it's more than 20:

Also got some loofah climbing up the fence:

We also acquired a Meyer Lemon tree, several pineapples and some succulents recently but I didn't get around to taking pictures yet. I'm a lazy blogger. That's it for now, lots more exciting news from the garden later, including an interview with Sam: the guerrilla garden who maintains several gardens around central Tampa-all at other people's houses...