Alice, we've got the wet end of that kind of storm down here. It took down my 12' sunflower last night. I went out this morning when it was sunny and bright and propped it up with all sorts of garden hardware stuff (metal posts) but it rained again this afternoon and now this evening. I just now went out and cut the top three feet (more or less) off of the plant, hoping that the top won't be waving in the wind and bring the whole thing, now a plant plus adjacent hardware, down like a guillotine onto the plants around it.

The garden is going to try to rot after all of this rain. I did design these raised beds to drain, so I think some of it will be okay, but just simply getting this much precipitation.

I took a nice sized eggplant over to my neighbors this morning: produce is coming out of the garden, but eggplant are a summer loving plant, so I'll have to watch it now to see if it dries out enough to keep setting fruit.

SRS