The drought

My bean plants are only about 4' high and the beans look a bit wizened. Most of my toms have got blossom end rot. My sweetcorn is 9" high. My cabbages have mealy aphids. My beetroot and spuds are lovely but it's quite hard to dig the spuds. My rasberries are looking a bit sad. My lettuce have bolted.
My sage and marjoram are fine.
My dahlias, begonias and geraniums are looking good though, so I've got something for our allotment open day.
So over the next few weeks I'm going to clear off most things, sow a couple of beds of green manure and top dress most of the rest with manure, if it ever rains.
And I've got a load of cabbage seedlings to plant out as soon as I can work out a way of keeping them hydrated until they get going.
It's a game this gardening isn't it?

It's rained every day for the last three weeks here. Everything is soggy and I daren't put a foot on the soil.    There's a lot of anual weeds that need hoeing but the whole thing just turns to a soggy mess. I've been thinking of ordering 40 tons of prime english oak and trying to find self-build plans for the ark on the web. 

People make jokes about the rain in Cumbria but it's not been too bad up here. May and June were very dry but we've had enough rain now to help things along and all my crops are as good as they've ever been or better. All I can suggest is....move to Cumbria 

Yep, nothing but rain in drought ridden, hosepipe ban Manchester.  All my veggies/fruit look great.  The only thing that needs watering are the greenhouse stuff

What's laughable is that when United Utilites instigated the hosepipe ban, its never stopped raining

Come on UU, lift the ban so we can have some sun