Summer

We are about a third the way through summer now. Success in the veggie patch has been a result mainly of the following:
- snake beans
- okra
- luffa
Some intermittent success from:
- cucumber
- zucchini (but very small)
- lagos spinach just starting
The failures have been:
- Corn. This either gets eaten by various pests (mice, caterpillars) or fails to pollinate properly and we end up with cobs with very few kernels. It seems both research and protection is needed before we can grow corn successfully
- Malabar spinach. Strangely, we grew this well in our previous place but here we aren't having any success. They germinate and grow a leaf or two but fail to thrive.

On the perennial side:
- Asparagus is growing and ferning up, but the beds have been invaded by grass and weeds
- Okinawa spinach was doing better in spring time. It seems to need a bit of shade in summer. A few plants have been produced by taking cuttings and rooting in water before potting up.
- Arrowroot is growing well
- Pigeon peas doing well, but mostly grown as windbreak and shade plants for veggies, and as chop and drop, rather than for harvesting the peas
- Chillis are doing fairly well, but are being attached by lots of pests that eat the leaves and the chillis
- Capsicum hasn't been doing so well, just producing a few small fruit
- Banana trees are growing, but it is too early for fruit
- Panama berries growing well. They don't seem to like the wind that much. But they do love being in the chicken coop with all the poop around. And the chickens love the berries in return.
- Turmeric is growing, slowly. Time will tell whether this is a success.
- Yacon growing well, but we won't know until we harvest
- Ditto for taro
- Sweet potato is taking over (but again, not sure if they will offer us much more than a ground cover).