It would seem an awful shame to give up. It was a constant battle in Catalonia and just on my current very small allotment plot everything seems to go wrong at once altogether.
Grow what survives best and not what you would like to grow was what I learn't.
We had much better results when we stopped growing salad plants for example and tomatoes. These needed constant attention in the hot periods. The tomatoes split because of the skin tension from drying out and then going plump again after watering. Soak hoses sort of worked but they still need an open tap and when the ground gets rotovated or weeded they are always in the way.
Here, back in the UK this year stayed too wet and cold for too long. Pushed lots of stuff back.
A friend of mine from Catalonia painted this on one of the raised beds I built. It best translates as this:
Horticulture is an act of faith in the future.
