Just when you think you won't have any more tomatoes, despite the many green ones still clinging to the tomato plants, you get a week of warm weather, and your row covers add a touch more warmth, and voila! you are swamped with ripening tomatoes! (The apple is just there for scale.)
I don't recall which variety this tomato is, but many of the bright yellow fruits (I know, they look orange here, but they are really yellow) are quite large, and unlike Brandywines, they don't split!
I decided to pull a few more carrots, too, this weekend, not that I had time to actually process them or anything.
This one was so big, and had such a grip on the soil, that I had to use the spading fork to dig it out - it wasn't going to let go on its own.
Neither was this one...or is that two? Possibly three?
Most of these carrots are still in the bowl on my kitchen counter, with a damp paper towel draped over them to keep them from going limp. A few (including Brutus, two pics up) were diced into a pot of chicken soup I made later that day to combat the cold I've been fighting for about a week now.
And just to prove that miracles do happen, here's what I saw yesterday afternoon:
Of course, later that night things reverted to normal, but now there is a glimmer of hope that maybe, just maybe, these two will eventually get along.
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