Harvested First Micro Tom

Last night I was the main speaker at our computer user group, LA Fox. That left only a little time between work and the speaking engagement.

In that time I picked 76 Red Currants, a Husky Cherry Red, Taxi, Garden Peach and Micro Tom tomatoes.

This is the first Micro Tom I've picked this year. This particular tomato turned orange a couple of weeks ago...and stayed that way. I was expecting it to turn red. When I handled it, it came off fairly easy.

I brought all of the Red Currants picked over the last two days and a few others to the user group. They were all taken by the attendees.

76 Red Currants sounds like a lot, but the average size of these Red Currants is a little over a pea. 76 peas isn't a lot of mass but it makes for an impressive count! Still, they're great in salads – simply drop them in! And this year's crop doesn't have the slightly bitter “bite” of last years tomatoes. They simply taste good.

The weather is heating up...

We live close enough to Pierce College to make their weather measurements accurate to where we live. The link to the current month's temperatures can be found here. Monday, the high was 99 and yesterday, 101. Today's temperatures will be similar.