Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 27 JulyOne Tavera bean caught mid-germination on 28 July, a single glossy pea-green cotyledon still the exact kidney shape of the seed it came out of, laid against the crook of its own hypocotyl where it has just broken a bed of shredded bark.Week of 27 JulyTavera beans on 30 July, twenty widely spaced and a few already pushing a first trifoliate leaf up between the heart-shaped pair while half a dozen more are still folded shut in the crook, the soil evenly damp under flat shadowless cloud.Week of 31 AugustTavera beans on 2 September, one flower open with its keel twisted right over and the others still fat pale buds, and through the leaf beside them a clean round hole punched straight out, clover-like weeds pushing up at the right.Week of 21 SeptemberTavera filet beans picked on 21 September, nearly every slender pod still wearing its five-lobed calyx and a shriveled flower remnant at the stem end, one fine thread-like tail trailing at lower right. Soft warm indoor light, rinse droplets on a white towel.Week of 21 SeptemberTavera bush beans on 22 September, ten or so slim pods arching through the leaves with seed bumps barely raised along them, papery spent blossoms still clasped among the stems. Soft overcast light, no shadows.
