Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 22 JuneA pepper on 23 June, set off in one corner of an otherwise bare bed, seven or eight glossy leaves on a smooth ridged stem with a small cluster of new ones at the tip, several cupped or wavy at the edge and nearly all of them still holding rain.Week of 6 JulyA seedling on 6 July grazed down to almost nothing: big scalloped bites out of nearly every margin, one lower leaf left as little more than its rim and midrib, another rolled shut into a dry brown tube, wet through under flat overcast.Week of 6 JulyAn Orange Sun pepper on 9 July, eight leaves on a thread of a stem and set so far off to one side of its bag that it barely registers in it — one blade much larger and paler than the rest, kaolin scattered over them, dew on every surface around it.
