As you may have noticed, I didn't do monthly garden updates this year.

The truth is that we struggled a lot with keeping up with the garden this year.

Then when we finally got everything back on track, we had a series of floods which really impacted the garden.

Our yard will sometimes flood after heavy rains in the summer but it never really reaches the garden.

This year we had 2 really big floods in the yard which ended up reaching the garden.  The first flood spared a couple rows of tomatoes but the second flood left everything underwater.  

It also has been a very rainy season overall so the garden could never fully dry out from the rain.  I'm still having a difficult time mowing the lawn because it is just so wet & muddy.

Here are a couple pictures from the floods we had:

If you remember our seed starting adventures from last year, we just used some random seeds we already had.

Since I was buying new seeds this year, I was a little more selective in my varieties.  I toned it down quite a bit too--I only chose 3 tomato varieties this year!

I also started peppers from seed this year so I picked out 2 varieties of peppers.

I spent quite a while browsing the Burpee website in search of the perfect seeds before I made my purchase.

Here's what I ended up with: