Been eating Sungold tomatoes for a week-and-a-half now, with more ripening daily now that it's consistently hot weather. And Early Girl 'maters got a sudden growth spurt and starting to ripen also.

My raised bed garden has struggled this year. The first round of strawberries were reluctant to ripen in June's cool and wet weather, and those that did got hit hard by slugs and bugs. The second crop is looking to be the best ever for me, however. Blueberries did well and are almost over, maybe one more picking.

Veggies have struggled. Planted onions and sugar snap peas 3 times, green beans 4 times. Slugs and rabbits. Damn rabbits were getting through the plastic deer fencing - they just chew holes in it - and 2" chicken wire. Had to redo the perimeter with 1" chicken wire, so most everything is doing OK finally. Lots and lots of lettuce, but onions are a good month behind. No spinach this year, after 2 or 3 plantings, I just gave that up. Brussel sprouts look like they're gonna' succeed, although I had to spray some organic bug killer on them. I know corn is not suited to raised bed gardening, but I saw these corn starts at the nursery when I was buying flowers this spring, so I bought one little pot with 5 corn starts in it. 3 survived, and one is about 5' tall now. Got 4 whole ears of corn developing, so, whoo hoo, that's success. Have managed to keep the deer out of there this year, but it's a constant struggle.