You think you're sick of the wet weather?
Well, it's creating a headache for strawberry growers too.
More than two million new plants have been destroyed by rain, and in the Bay of Plenty, crops are almost obliterated.
But the groundwork is being laid to fix the problem, and strawberry growers are giving assurances shortages will be short-lived.
Rain and labour shortages are a deadly combination, said strawberry grower Peter McIntyre.
"Mother Nature just dealt us a bit of a blow, unfortunately."
Far fewer plants fruited than strawberry growers had hoped.
"The plant shortage has arisen because the growers in Kerikeri got smacked by the weather in the summer," he told Newshub.
"They didn't have enough labour to keep up with weed control around the plants - and our biggest grower just had to abandon 40 percent of his crop because he couldn't keep up."
A few short weeks ago you couldn't find a plant in a garden centre for love nor money. The crisis called for ingenuity.
"We put a team together of staff and we went out and we actually dug them all out of an old strawberry farm, took them back to our nursery, nurtured them and planted them into pots and here they are ready for the public," said Tracey Maddox from King's Plant Barn next to the store's new seedlings.
There is a silver lining - the bad weather may have accelerated the move to a more secure way of growing strawberries.
It's a move that will extend the season but may cost slightly more.
Price will always be about supply and demand but McIntyre says the weather can have a bearing on a crop when 85 percent of our strawberries are grown outside.
"These are field-grown plants so they're grown out in the soil and they multiply in the paddocks, while these [indoor-grown] plants have been produced from plugs," he said.
Plug production - bred in an indoor nursery with LED lights - means no soil, so they're less susceptible to disease and poor weather too.
Plus it's easier to get labour to pick the crop.
"And with that we get less variability in the quality of the fruit. We're out of the weather so we're not dictated to so much by the weather and bad weather events," McIntyre added.
Watch out too for increasing mechanisation. McIntyre says robots picking strawberries is already a thing.
