So really this is my second garden, but i moved before the other one ever went anywhere. My friend ended up taking care of it for me and I let her go ahead and keep the harvest from it.

But this is technically the first one I've done myself. I'm kind of loosing it a bit. I just bought seedlings since I started it too late to start the seeds myself. I went ahead and hardened them for a couple days (I wasn't sure if the plant farm had hardened them or not) before planting them. Everything was going great until I hit the first rain and everything's just kind of gone down hill from there.

I started with 2 mature lavenders, 1 rosemary seedling, 1 parsley seedling, 2 roma seedlings, 2 okra, 3 heirloom beefsteak tomatoes, 1 zucchini, 1 squash, 1 eggplant, 3 regular cucumbers and a pickling cucumber.

After the first big rain I lost the pickling cucumber and shortly after I lost my squash and a regular cucumber. The more the rains come, the more it looks like I'm going to lose another plant. I think my zucchini is going to be next. It's really brittle and it looks like something's been gnawing away at the bottom stems. Every time it rains, another leaf gets crushed and broke. One of my remaining cucumbers is doing really well, but the other one gets covered in dirt and mud every time it rains and no matter how much i hand wash all the mud off it just doesn't seem to grow at all. My tomatoes seem to be the only things thriving. My romas are so big they're too tall for the tomato things now and my beefsteaks are slow to grow but almost there as well.

On top of all that I've got a large infestation of ants (though, thank the goddess, no aphids) and it seems like they're damaging the healthy parts of the plants instead of eating all of the already damaged and decaying parts. It also looks like something's been gnawing at the leaves of my okra.

I'm just kind of at a loss as to what to do!