Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 22 JuneA Biquinho Yellow pepper newly set out on 23 June, a compact rosette with a tight knot of new leaves at its tip, its cupped rippled blades still holding clear droplets after rain and fine white hairs standing along every midrib, in soft flat light.Week of 22 JuneA Biquinho Yellow on 25 June, still only a dozen leaves and nothing else, soft yellow-green with a cream midrib running conspicuously pale down each blade and a faint down over the surface, standing off to one side in flat shadowless light.Week of 6 JulyA seedling of six leaves held nearly flat on 9 July, one tiny dark insect settled on the largest blade beside a clean notched bite and two small holes — at the crown a pale green knot ringed with sepals, too soft to call bud or fruit, everything glittering.
