My sun gold cherry tomatoes are seemingly going strong, I'm getting 20-30 per day for the past couple of weeks. But a week or so ago I noticed I didn't have any new flowers. So I fertilized them and gave them "trace minerals". So far, after a week, there still doesn't seem to be any new growth or flowers, and there seems to be more blighted leaves, which I've been removing, and then hoping to keep down by using neem oil. At least we will get the remaining green tomatoes, probably in the same 20-30 per day, for at least another couple of weeks, so it won't have been a complete waste of effort. They are absolutely delicious, best on the day you pick them. Today I noticed some mildew on the eightball squashes. They had some yellowing leaves earlier and I fertilized and added minerals to them a week ago as well. Their leaf production seems to be improved; still some yellowing older leaves, but the new growth seems good. The squashes seem to go in waves; we didn't get any harvest for a week, but now there's a whole bunch on the way. Basil is growing amazingly well. I keep trimming it to keep it inside the netting container that I constructed, and I have many many little cubes of proto-pesto and shredded plain basil in the freezer already, and the plant is still enormous. Whenever I remove the netting to trim, I also neem it to keep the beetles away. The netting seems to be helping. There is some unauthorized consumption of the leaves (little chewed holes, and some leaves which have been nearly completely consumed), but the amount that I'm getting is perfectly acceptable. I think I will not need to grow it at all next year, even if it completely stops growing now. comments