Hot dry, but no groundhogs. I have had better gardens in year’s last.
It’s the groundhogs that have done us in. We can deal with most of the other stuff - lose half our garden perhaps. But ONE ground hog can (and does) destroy a garden (30x45) in just two evenings.
We had it solved for awhile, but in the past two years our fence “solutions” took some damage - and if there is ANY breach at all, those little bas***** will find it fast.
At least the feral cats ate all the rabbits and most of the chipmonks. The deer we still have fenced out - for now.
Do you have any streams near you that you can get free water from?