Win some, lose some garden

The drought and heat have not been kind to my garden this year. Still, there have been some successes:

Best stuff: kale (still producing since February!), mint, and marigolds (see below)








Good stuff: lettuce, spinach, basil, strawberries, onions, cherry tomatoes, summer squash; winter squash and pumpkins aren't plentiful, but they look good.

Not so good stuff: not very many peas (too hot, too soon); Early Girl tomatoes gave out too soon, Fourth of July and Brandywine tomatoes pitiful; zucchini plants (transplants bought after losing all the ones I planted from seed to earwigs) are few and far between; green beans coming on slowly after 3 plantings (earwigs, again); peppers (too soon to tell); parsley, tarragon, French thyme (spot too shady)

Disaster: My poor potatoes looked fantastic until just a few days ago. Now the vines are wilting and browned, many of the tubers are covered with scabby stuff, and the insides are messed up. I'm trying to find out what the disease is and if I should dig them all up now, before they all get infected.