It’s the middle of the {season} in {your hemisphere}.
How are things growing? Or not growing?
Any successes you’d like to share?
Any challenges that have made you learn?
Have you gotten to eat much of what you’ve grown?
How’s it going fellow gardeners?
You might find that they come in even better next year. Last year I covered our septic mound in wildflower seeds, similar story to yours, looked like the birds just destroyed everything, or at least the seeds were duds.
This year we have a veritable wildflower meadow out there.