Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 8 JuneA wiry vine on 11 June, already running — one thread-thin shoot snaking off out of the frame with a coiled tendril or two along it, its small ivy-angled leaves bristly at every edge and dusted white with something like sand across the lowest pair.Week of 29 JuneA cucamelon on 29 June sprawled flat from a low crown, its leaves no wider than three times the drip line they cross and cut into pointed ivy-like lobes on thread-thin bristly runners, one tendril wound tight and every tip still furled.Week of 29 JuneA cucamelon on 1 July, wiry and small-leaved with three-lobed blades like ivy, its single thread tendrils curling off at every node and several already dried to tight brown corkscrews, one leaf bleached whitish at the edge of the frame.Week of 20 JulyCucamelons on 23 July, the largest striped and blotched dark over pale gray-green exactly as a watermelon is while a younger one stays plain, hung on a wire-fine bristling vine whose tendrils coil into tight corkscrews, lit against deep shade.
