No pics for awhile.  I’ve been lazy plus nothing looks much different on main roof.  Veranda vines look healthy.  Have been using bucket method to water — filling buckets with water and then dumping water from the buckets.  This makes it easier to know exactly how much I’m watering.  The vines look much better than last year on veranda level but that could be due to weather and not my more accurate watering regime.  The alley vines look like they’re struggling to grow.  They look healthy — not like the constant on death’s doorstep they looked like at this time last year.  They haven’t grown as fast as previous years.  Usually the first level trellis is full by now but they look more like mid July growth.  Still two good months to this season so we’ll see.  Maybe they’ll grow later instead of simply giving up the ghost usually around the end of September.

Sunflowers are starting to bloom.  This seems late as well.  Habeneros still small.  I predict a small crop this year.  Ichiban eggplants (the skinny ones) look thinner this year.  The big fat eggplants look like they’ll produce some good ones however.  Tomatoes haven’t died yet and lots of greens.  Looks like that harvest will come in late too even though they produced a throwaway pretty early last July.  Need to do some roof work.  There might be a couple of leaks that need addressing.  Nothing to worry about though and possibly can be put off until next Spring.  That is all for now…