Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 6 JulyA Sweet Sivri pepper on 6 July, its long narrow leaves rimmed pale cream the whole way round the margin and chewed into deep notches, one torn back nearly to the midrib, with a haze of pink flowers out of focus behind it in the rain.Week of 6 JulyA Sweet Sivri pepper on 9 July, nothing set on it yet beyond a possible knot of buds, its long blades on smooth stems with swollen jointed nodes and one node stained purple-brown — while the plant crowded against it already carries squat green fruit.Week of 3 AugustSweet Sivri peppers on 4 August, hanging dead straight and slender from a plant that has dropped its lower leaves, each pod corrugated down its whole length into irregular ridges and folds, against a sky going low and warm behind the trees.Week of 17 AugustA Sweet Sivri pepper on 20 August, its longest fruit an S-curve of glossy chartreuse-yellow dimpled shallowly down its length, a much thinner one below it gone matte orange and hooked at the tip, both hanging in a cage of nearly bare stems.Week of 24 AugustA Sweet Sivri plant on 26 August stripped down to bare stems, carrying one long curved pod turning through brown to red, one still wholly green, and a slender scarlet one behind — nothing left in leaf to hide any of them.Week of 31 AugustA Sweet Sivri pepper kinked into a flat zigzag on 3 September — it runs left, doubles back on itself, then drops to a fine curved point — scarlet beside a duller brick-red twin on a plant so bare that one stem shows the pale sawn face where it was cut.Week of 21 SeptemberA Sweet Sivri pepper on 21 September, ripened glossy deep red and S-curved, its tip hooking slightly and its thick pale-green stem angled sharply up from the shoulder. Warm low light from the left throws soft shadows across the towel.
