Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 29 JuneCubanelle peppers on 29 June, four or five so far past their cells that the kinked stems lean right out over the sides, their puckered leaves catching a hard sheen, while one straggler beside them holds three leaves and has lost part of one.Week of 6 JulyA Cubanelle pepper on 6 July, one bell just parting its five petals face-down on a bent stalk and a second still nodding green with a whitening tip, its own leaves chewed to skeletal fringes and one hanging shredded from the stem.Week of 6 JulyA Cubanelle pepper on 9 July shot with the sun coming through from behind so the upper leaves burn translucent yellow-green — chewed to bare windows in places where only the top skin is left — and at the crown two short curved stalks with nothing on the end.Week of 13 JulyA Cubanelle pepper on 17 July, held clear by a hand with a tan cot on its index finger — one smooth waxy pale green pod, broad-shouldered and furrowed along one flank, hanging under nodding cream bells in wet-looking overcast light.Week of 20 JulyA Cubanelle pepper on 20 July, chartreuse and waxy with soft furrows running its length and the tip curled to one side, its stalk bent hard over at the shoulder, and at the frame edge two fingertips holding the stem aside, one wearing a fabric plaster.
