Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 29 JuneA Banana Creme tomato on 29 June run up to three times the height of its own pot with long bare stretches between the leaves, one small egg-shaped fruit set high on the stem in a star of sepals, the leaf margins tinted brownish-purple.Week of 6 JulyA Banana Creme tomato on 7 July that has thrown one long pale stem clean out sideways and away across the grass, still without a flower on it, while the older plant behind it carries three round green fruit in a single cluster.Week of 20 JulyA Banana Creme tomato on 20 July, one set fruit only and an oblong with rounded ends rather than any kind of globe, matte cream-green under its sepals, on a young sparse plant whose hairs catch the noon sun as a haze along every stem.Week of 24 AugustThree Banana Creme tomatoes on 26 August hanging in one cluster, pale creamy-green and drawn out long, the biggest of them tapering to a blunt point at the blossom end, every one beaded over with dew from the night before.Week of 5 OctoberBanana Creme tomatoes put up as a thick opaque golden-yellow sauce, upright in a tall glass bottle on 9 October with small bubbles collected under the shoulder of the neck; at least six glossy red-orange fruits lie behind in soft diffuse indoor light.Week of 5 OctoberFifteen or twenty soft orange-yellow fruits heaped in a steel mixing bowl on 9 October, skins slipped into pleated folds, a few green calyx ends and pale cream seeds showing; orange pulp streaks the walls above the pile under warm artificial light.
