You have to adapt.
This garden was built up - because we occassionally have a year that it too wet to plant in the ground. This year, because its so dry, we water twice a week.
The soil is recycled barn dirt. After a winter, the sand in the barn gets really vile - but its the kind of vile that plants love. So we use it to build gardens.
Another adaptation you may notice is I plant corn in hillocks, in threes. Instead of in rows and singly. That's because of the wind. The big hay field between my neighbor and my fence spawns a constant breeze. Single corn plants, particularly when they are small, blow over. So I plant in threes - they support each other. It also helps with germination.
THe corn group is really too small to have much in terms of pretty ears of corn, but the flavor is so good that we do it anyway.
Then I give the stalks to the cattle who love it.
The only trick I use with tomatoes is planting deep. I wait till the seedlings are about 8 inches tall, then pinch off all the leaves except the top floret - and plant it that deep. That develops 8 inches of root base. And then I go out at night with a flashlight to catch the cutworms that they attract.
The other concern is shade. You can't see it from the photos - but we have radish planted between the corn, in the shade.
