Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 6 JulyA young Floradade tomato on 8 July, spreading level instead of climbing and furred all over with fine white hairs that catch a hard side sun — small rounded leaflets tucked in between the big ones along every rachis, the lowest leaves just going yellow.Week of 6 JulyA Floradade tomato on 9 July, fresh yellow-green and thin enough at its tips to be lit right through, kaolin speckled across the leaflets and one shoot chewed away to nothing but its veins, the whole plant bone dry in hard low sun.Week of 20 JulyA Floradade tomato on 20 July, still green and finely furred all over, its hairy sepals splayed back off the shoulder like a star and a spent flower hanging just above, in hard unfiltered sun.Week of 20 JulyA Floradade tomato on 23 July under a dense even pile of white hair that frosts the whole fruit, a blue-green blush across the shoulder beneath the calyx and the spent flower still hanging from the truss tip, in hard sun broken up by leaf shadow.Week of 31 AugustTwo Floradade tomatoes from above on 3 September, both beaded with rain and the further one still uniformly pale green, while the nearer carries a broad butter-yellow flush over one shoulder and a fine healed split beside the stem scar.
