Update #4 - June 2025

 I've only made modest progress on chapter 28, partly due to very hot weather over the weekend, partly due to other distractions in the news. I have some chunks of the chapter, and have to keep stitching them together. I also have to figure out how to set up something that happens in chapter 29. Onward...

The hot weather hasn't hurt the tomatoes et al, I just had to run sprinklers three days as well as the morning watering round. Three of them have little tomatoes which are getting ripe, but these are ones that had already set on some of the tomatoes before I got them. The zucchinis are blooming, but it would help if they could have male and female flowers at the same time. I continue my morning battle with the bean-eating slugs. And I found the first Japanese beetle on the last pink rose. They'll be on the repeat blooming David Austin roses soon. Summer in the garden...