Just "Goldilocks" right here - not too much and not too little rain. I haven't watered the garden since planting in June!

In the past, I too have found spinach to be intolerant of waterlogging, while brassicas are more tolerant. Okra is extremely intolerant of it as well.

The peppers are a bit droopy now, too, but It was the extreme flagging of the kale that surprised me.

We missed 3 more rainstorms today and yesterday, for which I am glad. Rain usually comes in too much or too little, rarely "just right".

I've only had to water once this year, but may have to again this week. Zukes, new kale and mustard looking a little droopy. We've been getting all our rain at once this summer - but had barely 1/4" last week (2 weeks ago tomorrow had almost 2" that day!).

Hoping tomorrow night T-storms will be "just right" - and then not too much over the holiday weekend when rain is predicted every day.

This is the first year I've had BER on tomatoes other than paste - and all my tomatoes are late (except for Black Krim), half of them are almost dead from septoria.

What's rain?

LOL Nancy. I was thinking the same thing. We need to build a pipeline out to California!

Here in the reliably dry high plains, I don't think we've gone a whole week so far without rain. The ones who are hating the most is the peppers. Not sure if they are going to make it through the rest of the season. We had early onset powdery mildew on the winter squash which ruined the crop for me, and one of my tomato varieties has had severe BER and the others, cracking. Not to mention the gardener who is used to dry air has had congestion and sinus problems for the entire summer.

Cucurbits so far not minding the mud, but the brassicas and tomatoes are doing even worse than the peppers. Some tomato plants gone almost totally yellow, and today I saw that the outer leaves of the cabbages are yellow.

I did spot a low-growing cucumber gone all moldy from lying in the mud. I think I'll put something under the butternut squash fruits.

We have had more rain than last year, which is lessening the severity of the drought. My place has gotten less than other areas of my small town. It has been nice to see what is possible with some of my perennials with the rain (like the roses) and it has kept some of my vegetables alive that I was prepared to give up on because of pests.

Last September, we received gobs of rain and my red mustard was about 6 feet tall. I loved seeing that.