As a beekeeper and gardener I am very observant of plant growth. This year has been unusual, some say it was the rain.
Well, talking with several beekeepers and gardeners in the new England area we all have the same issues. Our tomatoes didn't grow, squash blossoms didn't produce fruit and bee forage we normally see didn't grow. we also experienced the growth of plants (weeds)we haven't seen before.
My theory: Canadian wildfires are predominantly evergreen forests. evergreen trees produce an allelopath that alters or prevents growth. The Canadian smoke that enveloped new England for weeks may have been carrying particulates of both the allelopath and the weed seeds. the rains would then precipitate them out. I did find a slight change in my soil Ph and pool Ph after 2-3 days of rain but not enough to effect growth. The only thing different this season was weeks of wildfire smoke.
I will be looking at what grows in early spring to see if the new weeds remain.
has anyone south of Ct or in the Ohio valley experiencing any of this?

Now that I take a different one daily, I rarely have any Gout attacks, but when ever I do maybe in 3 or 4 years, I stop momentarily and I take Colchizine which fixes the gout and I go back to my Alimperinol. Colchizine is a bad MED so you have to be careful with it. Heck, I watched a program about a murder, I think Forensic files and that is what someone used to kill another person with an over dose of it. Sorry for the spelling error on the meds. To lazy to go to the cupboard to look at the bottles.