Rain Crops
The tomatoes may not be on their best behavior during rainy summers, not unless you planted them for their foliage, but there is a whole host of rain crops worthy of your gardening efforts, even in uncooperative weather.
Cucurbits can never get too wet, the more it rains, the better they produce. They’ll yield a lot of fruit, and the best tasting kind, during rainy summers.
Cucumbers, zucchini, squashes, melons, and pumpkins, demand lots of water to grow large fruit. While the pumpkins and melons also need a stretch of dry weather at the end of August to build up their sugar content and properly ripen, the cucumbers and zucchini don’t care. Enough sunshine to allow them to bloom and pollinate will suffice.
Radishes must have consistently moist soil, without which they will grow bitter and stunted. They grow fast enough to make even one month of endless rain, we are going to call that month May, worth your while. Sure you can plant two crops a year, and try your luck with them again after the summer cools off, but the problem is, September is usually bone dry.
Eggplants, as mentioned above, are actual monsoon crops programmed to grow during the rainy season.
Lettuces are crunchy, fresh, and tender, and taste better during wet summers.
Finally, sweet potatoes thrive with the rain, when they’ll grow a healthy crop in only six weeks.
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