Picked another gallon & a half of strawberries but the plants are looking tired ~~~ 
This is a off year for our Blueberries and they have only produced 2 quarts plus a blueberry pie ~~~
Tomatoes are all plant and no fruit, Potatoes are all tops and no bottoms but the Cukes and Punkuns are looking strong
Our corn is most strange this year.....some stalks are very short [half of what I imagine normal to be] and producing tassels. I found one stalk snapped off about 6” from the ground .... I suspect a deer walking through. Kills me that a deer would do damage, in advance of what we anticipate the ‘coons to do. Something is nibbling the peas...[I don’t really care...we have jerjillions of them.]
Nice solution to keeping small rodents away from your strawberries!
Are you experiencing excess rain too? Thanks for the pictures. Is that a new variety of corn or the same one you usually plant?
I love the covers over your strawberries! That looks wonderful! And may I ask what you have between and around the plants? Seems to keep the weeds away and looks lovely.
Thanks for the pics. Sorry about your nightshades and blue berries, but at least you got some straw berries. We have not had any decent black berries since the really hot summer drought. Never got any blueberries or grapes yet-planted in 2010 - hope springs eternal.
And this year we didn’t even get strawberries. Sigh. I am hearing from everyone that their tomatoes are all failures this year. Mine aren’t doing well either - except for the volunteers.
I planted some potatoes this spring and mulched around them really well, and sort of forgot about them. When I went out to check, there were a whole bunch of tomatoes and some sort of melon vines, a bunch of weeds growing.
The tomatoes were doing great, and every thing was so intertwined, I decided to just let it go. I have been harvesting some great looking tomatoes there. One of the plants appears to be a larger beefsteak variety, but most are medium size. I know they must be heirloom, since that’s all I plant in the beds, but just which ones who know. Last planting of nightshades there was 3 years ago.
As soon as they turn orange, I pick them so the squirrels don’t get them, rinse them, dry and wrap in newspaper. I have one that almost red enough to eat.
Is that corn kinda shorter than usual? What type is it anyway? Hubby will be planting another batch of corn - Evergreen within the week. The peaches and cream corn is harvested, and I’ve got to figure out how to make room in the freezer for it.