Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 8 JuneA Czech's Bush tomato on 12 June, one fruit set and still pale hard green and beaded with rain, sitting in a calyx whose narrow lobes curl right back off the shoulder like fingers on a knuckled hairy stalk, the shriveled flower still hanging below.Week of 15 JuneA Czech's Bush tomato on 18 June, one round green fruit already flattened at the shoulders and beaded with droplets, hanging on the same cluster as two smaller ones and a spent flower, with four or five fresh flowers on a truss just above it.Week of 22 JuneA Czech's Bush truss on 25 June, three hard green fruits under a faint whitish bloom with the light striking a pale halo onto each, and above them the same stalk running on into a brown papery spray of spent flowers, one scrap of yellow petal left.Week of 29 JuneCzech’s Bush tomatoes on 29 June, three crowded onto one thick stalk just above the mulch, the largest a broad whitish-green globe ribbed round the shoulders and dewed across its sunlit top, every hair on the plant rimmed silver by low sun.Week of 20 JulyCzech's Bush tomatoes on 20 July, fruiting at two heights at once, one large ribbed globe gone satin pale yellow-green up top and three small round ones bunched almost on the ground below, a hard band of shadow lying across the row behind.Week of 10 AugustA Czech's Bush tomato on 12 August, ripening from the bottom up — pale green at the shoulder, warm golden amber over the lower half with faint vertical banding — its broad potato-leaf foliage lit right through by low sun.
