I did have to use town water for a couple of days, but then it rained a little and the rain barrel is back up to the quarter-full mark so we'll get another couple of days of rain barrel. Not much more rain in the forecast though. I realized that my eightball squashes are likely getting fertilized, but then they are being consumed by some kind of bug. I actually saw something that looked like a tiny grasshopper, perhaps it is the culprit. There are also tiny black dots all along some of the stems. Bug eggs? Sprayed with insecticidal soap. Hopefully this will help. I'm running very low on tomatoes. They are also very tiny. They are still delicious! I think I didn't fertilize them enough. I fertilized them enough to get some new flowers, but those haven't turned into tomatoes yet and the tomatoes that were in progress ended up being very tiny. And now there aren't very many left that are partially ripe. There are still a number of green ones, and still some flowers, so there is hope. However, we are also getting blighted leaves, despite being fairly consistent about using neem oil. I cut them off and get rid of them hoping it doesn't spread very quickly, but then there are more a few days later. The new growth is not outpacing the blighted leaves. I feel like I'm losing Spirit Island. Anyway, 982 tomatoes so far. Will I get 18 more? (Probably.) Basil seems to be still going okay, though I've been harvesting the top bits, and the bottom bits are kind of large, tough, yellowish leaves, and I'm not sure I'm going to make pesto out of them. But, I did get quite large collection of proto-pesto cubes, so that at least was an unqualified success. comments