Silver linings for the rainforest gardener

I've called the Petersburg area home for four years now, and I can tell you this is not an easy place to be a gardener. Incessant rain, lack of warmth and sun, sour peat soil and hungry wildlife all seem to make growing anything other than moss and ferns an uphill battle. Gardening demands a lot of effort, and seeing your precious plants get eaten up or slowly drowned after all the time and money you spent nurturing them is truly disheartening. Can a fruit tree really be called that if it never makes fruit because it just rained for three months straight? Why not just throw in the towel, put i...