For the past few days the Northwest has been enjoying some refreshing rain.  Although I have issues when the skies turn grey it’s quite welcomed around here.  We turned off our irrigation system the other night and in my many waking hours of the night I lay there and listen to the rain.

You would think that since I’m such a tomato nut I would be in a panic.  Blight and all.  It doesn’t seem to be phasing me.  I do have a nasty case of blossom end rot on my Brandywines, but for the most part the majority of my plants are doing quite well.  I checked on the Juan Flame and it looks a little sad, but the fruit is fine.

All of my tomatoes have all fallen over, but no broken branches.  The best part is the masses of fruit.  What makes it even more crazy is now that the weather has cooled down the tomatoes are actually starting to color.  Last night we pulled a 1 pound Cherokee Purple, a 6 ounce Black Russian and a 6 ounce Azoychka.  For the season we are over 5 pounds of tomatoes.  If all of the fruit currently on the vines ripens I wouldn’t be surprised if we ended up with almost 100 pounds.