Yep, here in NWOntario, things are doing not too badly. My kohlrabi is starting to bulb out, and we can eat green onions now. The weeds are coming up great as well, and i need a day in the veggie garden to get rid of them. Most of my winter sown annuals have been planted out. They aren't doing too badly. Most of the petunias and impatiens i planted indoors - and i planted way too many of them - are either in the ground or in containers and some of them look really nice.

I was in your shoes last year - nothing but rain and cool weather. I replanted my beans twice and they never grew more than a couple of inches high. By the time the nice weather came at the end of August, it was too late. So i can sympathize with you! :)

My peas are sad, my beans are mediocre, tomatoes are depressed.

Nasturtiums are doing ok, irises are rotting, HT roses are sitting there doing very little, non-HT roses are on schedule, clematis is looking good.

For some reason my delphiniums are going nuts this year and no sign of those horrible little green worms that usually devour them.

The mosquitoes are definitely thriving. The city sprayed Malathion last night and it didn't make a dent in them.

Peas, broccoli, potatoes, squash, corn and even tomatoes are doing well. The last two are in a raised bed, though.
I planted everything earlier than most people do. Not only do they produce earlier (in the case of the cool season crops), but because they established themselves before the rains arrived, they have enough transpiration going to mop up all the rain. Most of the cool season crops were transplanted outside in mid-April.

My first year gardening in interior Alaska was like that: very short plants, and flowers did not bloom. I found out my soil needed lots of fertilizer! The next year everything was great!

Last year we in Northern Ontario, had rain, rain and more rain and cooler temperatures. Nothing grew well except the peas and we had a bumper crop of potatoes.

This year we have had hot temperatures and very little rain until the last week or so. We watered but it's nothing like a good rain. Now that the soil is wet right through, things are really starting to pop. Our corn wasn't coming up for quite a while. It popped through and grew 6 inches in a day after the first rain. It looks likre everything is going to produce very well this year.

As a lot of flowers and vegetables like warmer temperatures, I think we are just starting to see things grow faster as the night temperatures have warmed up and the days (on the days it's not raining that is) seem to be anything from cloudy to sunny and humid.

I lost a few seedling cucumbers a few weeks ago as they were too wet for too long and then followed by a couple of cold nights. Their replacements seem okay- so far.

My tomatoes are growing slow but steady, except for a 'grape' type of tomato (started from seeds from T&T seeds) which seems to be doing quite well. It's definitely going to be one of the more 'vining' type of tomatoes but it's planted beside a trellis so I can tie as need be.

Speaking of morning glory, I had a few 'volunteers' come up from seed and am transplanting them as they come up. They seem to take a while to grow but I know I'm impatient. Last year, during our coolish cloudy summer the morning glory (bought as a plant from the nursery) actually did pretty decent.

Glen