Cherry tomatoes are beginning to come in well enough for salads, but not abundant enough yet for whatever that lovely italian salad of basil, cherry tomatoes, fresh mozzarella and olive oil is called. (So much basil I am buying cherry tomatoes - but not for long!

More fruit setting on the Mortgage lifter tomato. I'm a long way off from having ripe slicing tomatoes, though.

Ooooooh. Should have cukes to pick tomorrow or Sunday. Something weird going on with the zuccini. Plants look healthy, but the first fertile flowers turned brown and the tiny zukes are yellowing.

Dadgum, Alice! That was a windshield shattering hailstorm! We get hail occasionally here, and every now and then will get a really bad one that does lots of damage to crops and property, but not real often, and certainly not every season. How common are badly damaging hail storms there?