Better luck next year

OK so the time has come to admit defeat and admit at least to myself that my melons are dead, I've now cut back the plants completely to find that one plant had three fruit, one had one fruit and the other had none, I've decided next year I'm going to dedicate one side of my greenhouse to melons instead of cramming in 3 melons, 3 cucumbers and 3 aubergines all down one side, the melon plant in the middle that had no fruit had 2 female flowers so feelin a little what the heck I decided to pollinate them and see what happens lol but I have a feeling the damage is already done and I'm not getting my hopes up. What a rollercoaster ride this growing your own really is! I totally feel for my plants so I think I'm going to have to harden my heart a little, For the past 2 weeks I've felt quite sad going to and coming away from my allotment, all the rain has completely drowned my beautiful sweetcorn that at the beginning of the season looked so healthy, and as high as my heart soared when I first found my melons, it plummets just as quickly when I see them now. The thing that I find weird is that my cucumbers have been that prolific that I got kinda bored of them after a few weeks lol they are the same family, I've looked after them all the same yet where as my cucumbers don't know how to stop, my melons are at a standstill,
I have lots of good news though my tomatoes that I thought would never ripen are at last turning red tonight I picked 6 large tomatoes, 2 cucumbers, 4 baby carrots and a whole bunch of spring onions, we're having a lovely fresh salad for tea lol,
My marrow is huge and I have 7 pumpkins that are massive and get bigger everytime I see them, halloween will be amazing if we can carve our own pumpkin, my cauliflower seedlings, the second sowing {my first ones all drowned} are ready to go into their new bed and now I've cleared all my peas and beans I have plenty of room for them, My flowers are all in flower the sweetpeas I planted in june have climbed all the way up the sunflowers and the fence behind, it really is a beautiful place especially with all the veg like courgettes, pumpkins, butternut squash, and they're yellow flowers against the red wigwams of my runner beans it really is an amazing show and all this in my first year, I can't wait till next year now I have a little experience.
Our allotment site which is bebington road, rock ferry had it's annual open day last saturday 9th august and although it rained for the whole day and I mean rained not just a shower heavy rain all day, we had a wonderful time, We had a cake stall, a plant stall, a veg stall, a rather damp barbecue which was still very nice under a gazebo, a brica brac stall, face painting, wonderful live music, a fire engine and of course a raffle, I did a tombola stall and had collected prizes for the table, numbered them all up and then sold the tickets, it was so much fun I really enjoyed it and raised about £63 for our allotment society, they want to buy a new container with disabled access toilets and are looking to raise about £7000, so every little helps and our target is getting ever so slightly closer.