Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 6 JulyTwo picked tomatoes on 11 July laid on a desk mat between a keyboard and a lilac mouse — the smaller still wearing a six-pointed star of bristled sepals curled back off its shoulder, the other twice its width, greener, bare and scarred at the blossom end.Week of 13 JulyCherry tomatoes on 16 July, five or six smooth hard green globes hanging in ones and twos from short jointed stalks on a lanky, sparsely leafed plant, standing out on a mown slope in low evening sun with the treeline going dark behind it.