Even the tomatoes on the vine don't taste half as good as one you pick from your own garden. I love the smell of the tomato patch all season. Nice and sweet smelling. Looks like we will be dealing with rain most of the week here.
We have clay soil here as well. It drys and absorbs the water fairly well unless we get a really heavy storm. Part of the backyard is on a slope so we get run off from the road behind our house and it goes through our next door neighbors yard and continues lower through the cul de sac we are on...