Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 6 JulyA Red Mini Bell pepper on 6 July with all three stages on one stem — a bud at the tip, a cream flower hanging face-down below it, and under that a round green fruit already set on a thickened stalk — every leaf rain-beaded in flat light.Week of 6 JulyA Red Mini Bell pepper setting its first fruit on 9 July — one squat green globe under its calyx, the top flattened around a small dry style scar, an unopened bud on a thread of a stalk just above it, and kaolin lying in white flecks across the leaves.Week of 6 JulyA Red Mini Bell pepper on 12 July, framed by its own pale stems stained dark purple-brown at every joint — one small ribbed green fruit hanging with the shriveled flower still on its tip, and a spent cream bloom at the node, in diffuse sun.Week of 13 JulyA Red Mini Bell pepper on 17 July, a squat blocky green fruit with a broad flat shoulder, three or four shallow vertical lobes and a small puckered tip, hanging among nodding cream bells with all the foliage wet in flat dull light.Week of 20 JulyRed Mini Bell peppers on 20 July, four small blocky fruits hanging in the deep shade inside the bush, rounded at the base with shallow vertical lobes, on forking stems already going woody and brown at the lower joints in hard sun.Week of 3 AugustRed Mini Bell peppers on 3 August, fifteen small flattened globes hanging green among the leaves, and on one of them a chalky coating stops halfway down in a hard tide-line with clean green below it, the big leaf behind filmed to the same smear edge.Week of 3 AugustRed Mini Bell peppers on 4 August, fifteen and more crowded inside the canopy, every one a small squat globe wider than tall with a shallow groove round its shoulder, held out sideways and upward, and one white star flower open among them.Week of 17 AugustA Red Mini Bell pepper on 20 August, scarlet and flattened with its widest point right at the shoulder, and behind it two more mid-change whose shoulders have gone chocolate-brown over green before any red, every one beaded with water.Week of 28 SeptemberRed Mini Bell pepper on 29 September, held erect on a stout pale-green pedicel, squat and blocky, three-quarters colored up: glossy red over the top and left grading through orange to a yellow-green band low on the right. Flat light, damp still air.
