UPDATED 8/19/2016.

• Northeast Regional Climate Center, Northeast Drought Update
• Weston Nurseries, Leaf Scorch
• Mother Earth News, Coping With Heat in the Garden: Drought-Tolerant Crops, Resilient Perennials and More
• Mother Earth News, Best Shade-Tolerant Vegetables

Fingers crossed reality turns out as predicted for MA:

Why am I hoping for a good soaking rain you ask?

Because we live right in the middle of the red patch:

UPDATE 8/19/2016:

We go almost 1.5″ inches of rain last week – normal is between 0.75″ and 1″ – but the drought deepened:

We’ve got a lot of ground (water) to make up.  Doesn’t look favorable that we’ll start catching up anytime soon: