If gardening were easy, maybe more people would be doing it. Stood in the parking lot this morning comparing notes with another gardener. What the bugs didn't eat, the deer did. They don't even have zucchini this year.

Whiny is ok. Here in New England it has been hotter than usual but not as dry as elsewhere. There's a brazen chipmunk who is stealing all the ground cherries I planted for the first time this year. I've even found him sitting on top of a big borage plant. The crows pull my plant markers out of the ground. Right now cherry tomatoes are starting to ripen. Maybe in a week I'll have too many. After all, who in their right mind plants 4-5 cherry tomato plants? I do have a great recipe for curried cherry tomato sauce (it's like chili sauce). I have trouble growing golden beets. I have a small crop this year.

Hope the weather improves for you! I'll probably be whining plenty mid-Sept when an early frost gets some of our garden.

all my toms seem in the grip of disease, except the volunteers! Glad I left some of those go.....mystery toms.

I did the math and figured we have 70 days until the average first frost. It was rather depressing to think of how little food has come from the garden thus far, except for kale and zucchini. All I can hope is that some day I will get it all right (or if not all, at least more right).

I was just saying to DD, aside from the cherry toms (of which I've picked about a pint, from 8 or more plants!) we're not likely to get any more tomatoes than what we have on the vines right now. Usually first frost is end of Sept - though with covers, I was picking peppers til Oct 28 snowstorm last year (toms were dead). No new flowers on anything but the cherries - all dry and shriveled though we've had major rain past 2 weekends, the rest of July was just too dry. And most of the fruit I have on the vines right now is catfaced.

Zukes and cukes are producing like crazy though!