A walk in the mud

It's been too darn hot to spend any unnecessary time in the fields, but with a good rain on Friday we were willing to venture out to the tomato patch, even though we were ankle deep in mud. Why would we do this? Because there just might have been a few ripe tomatoes, and there were! Yellow cherry tomatoes are always the first to ripen, and sure enough we found a few. About a pint. Just enough for dinner. Well worth getting covered in mud! Keens are easy to rinse off anyway.

In the picture of our field (click on it for full size), we're looking down the tomato patch towards our greenhouses. You can see our deep footprints in the muddy lane that cuts through the field. The big sprawling tomato plants in the foreground are the cherries, next to them are two rows of plum tomatoes, next we have three rows of our standard red slicers, with the raspberries in the background. To the right of the lane we are growing peppers. If you look very carefully, past the peppers are melons. The melon rows start in front of the greenhouse on the right. We'll blog about the melons later, they will be great this year, unlike me, they love hot weather!