We've had a season long battle with rodents here... and everything finally started going better after their numbers finally shrank towards nothingness — helped by a nesting pair of Coopers Hawks and the arrival of a weasel family — in late July. It has also been dry enough that the pervasive slugs and dried up.

Mrs. Denmarkguy has been using a midsummer "replanting trick" to help our strawberries have two seasons every year... we get one set in June, and another mid-August to early September.