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This wet weather is really starting to get on my nerves. Through sheer determination, I've managed to make some gains in the garden in spite of it.

Cleaned the weeds out of two panels of cukes and dressed the vines properly on the fence. Got straw down around all the cukes and one row of tomatoes. I've had to spray the cursed japanese beetles a couple times in the last ten days.

I've got summer squash overflowing, eggplants are decent, cabbages ready to harvest, sweet corn in full tassle, grean beans started to bloom a week ago, butternut squash doing well, garlic should be about ready to harvest, potatoes starting to rot in the ground, tomatoes languishing. Could be worse I guess.

I know what you mean. I’m wondering if I’ll get any potatoes this year too. Mainly worried about the Dakota Pearls, as the catalog I got them from originally stopped carrying them.

The others are nothing special and the seed potatoes can easily be replaced. Tomatoes are pretty icky here too. Exception being the one bed of volunteers.

Nice looking garden! And a cold frame too! A picture for a calendar! It reminds me of the gardening shed where I grew up.

The rain! Its like I live in Maine or the Olympic rain forest or something rather than along the Kansas/Missouri border. Its July, my lawn should have gone dormant and I should not have to mow! It was June and I was actually turning on the heat.

My garden is small and wet. Volunteer turnips. (Not really a favorite.) I have some tomatoes I’m growing in These big landscape fabric pots. I make cages out of fencing. I put them up on top of a tree stump. Its worked well. I really have not had problems with fungus or blacks spot. The plants are up off the ground and the lower leaves do not get splashed with mud and dirt. I have about 50 to 60 green tomatoes on 2 plants. I did not prune the suckers. If you do prune,you get tomatoes faster, if not, you get more tomatoes in the long run.

I was encouraged by the volunteer turnips to scratch some lines in the mud and plant some onions and beets. I really should not be planting beets in July, but the seeds were 2 years old and the weather is strange this year. They germinated; we will see. Still. Your garden looks great. I am envious! (Wish I lived out in the country.)