Walking through a field of rotting cantaloupes Thursday afternoon was a sad thing.

The rotting fruit and browning plants made it look more like fall, when the late-to-blossom fruit  fail to mature as the growing season runs out.

But not in August.

That, however, was the case in a field south of Vallonia farmed by Mark and Sue Kamman. They shared their story of how a wet, cool growing season is devastating part of the watermelon and much of their cantaloupe plants they set this srping.

You can read about it in Friday’s edition of The Tribune and online at Trib.Town.com.

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