Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 1 JuneA Cherry Falls tomato on 5 June, sprawling out sideways rather than up, carrying a truss of six hard green fruit with the shriveled brown flower still clinging to two of them and open yellow stars further along the branch, in low raking side light.Week of 15 JuneCherry Falls tomatoes on 19 June in hard noon sun: two bare green berries and one yellow flower with its petals swept right back off the anther cone, while a second plant sharing the frame carries its fruit inside creased papery panels.Week of 15 JuneCherry Falls shot from below into bright 19 June sun, its leaves the broad simple potato-leaf form rather than cut, two trusses of six to eight hard green fruits with a shriveled brown flower still stuck to several of their tips.Week of 22 JuneA Cherry Falls tomato on 22 June, cropping so hard the frame holds nothing but it — dozens of gray-green fruit under a bloom of fine hairs, some still wearing their shriveled flower, and open blooms curling their petals back off a pale cone of anthers.Week of 22 JuneCherry Falls on 22 June, cropping heavily, dozens of hard green fruits hanging in trusses of four to six with a paler shoulder on every one, the old star flowers behind them already shriveled brown at the tips and the sky burnt out white above.Week of 29 JuneTwo Cherry Falls tomatoes picked on 29 June, both coloring from the blossom end upward: one dull salmon over its lower two thirds and still green at the shoulder, the other barely begun, a cream blush low on one cheek and its sepals curling dry.Week of 29 JuneCherry Falls tomatoes on 29 June, brought in at four stages at once, one still green under its sepal star, one blushing apricot, two gone dull orange-red, laid against a heap of just-washed frilled lettuce still beaded with water.Week of 29 JuneA Cherry Falls tomato on 29 June trailing its stems down over the rim and onto the ground instead of standing up, a dozen round green fruit hanging in loose clusters with yellow stars still opening, in sun hard enough to bleach the grass.Week of 29 JuneCherry Falls tomatoes on 1 July, green all through the truss but graded by the light — the pair at the front bleached almost cream on their sunlit cheeks while the ones deepest in are near-black in the shade between the leaves.Week of 6 JulyCherry Falls tomatoes on 7 July, low but loaded — dozens of round green fruit hanging in loose clusters right through the canopy and spilling over the sides, the pale yellow-green leaves under them peppered with dark flecks, all rain-beaded.Week of 6 JulyCherry Falls tomatoes on 12 July, a dozen on one plant at every stage at once — hard green with a darker shoulder, whitening, buttery yellow, and two on the right already deep golden orange — the sunlit leaves burnt out to acid green around them.Week of 20 JulyA Cherry Falls bush on 20 July, spilling over the bag rim and trailing out of frame, dozens of small round fruits hanging from its lax stems and the color arriving from the outside in: one already buttery yellow, its neighbor still green at the shoulder.
