Seasonal Plant Affective Disorder...

I don't know about you, but it seems like the weather throughout the summer has had a severe negetive impact on many things planted related.  The disease pressure for plants like tomatoes and ornamental crabapples was high and multiple calls were received in regards this those problems.  Of course, even though I look at things from a ornamental horticulture prespective, I also look at other aspects, like how this wet weather, and for the most part, a cool summer impacted commodity crop production like corn and soybeans. I know that in many areas of Illinois that planting for corn and soybeans was extremely delayed and I was told that the delay in planting corn past a certain date begins to negatively effect the overall yield for that year. Let's hope that next year will be better and that at all levels of things growing, the summer will be more normal.