Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 1 JuneA Granadero tomato on 5 June, its shoot tip come up pale and crinkled with a creamy band right around each rolled margin while the older leaves below stay flat mid-green, the lowest branches lying almost level, under soft overcast light.Week of 6 JulyA Granadero tomato on 7 July, one truss swung out to the left carrying five fruit, all still pale green and plainly oval rather than round, their narrow sepals curling back off each shoulder, with a single yellow flower open above in flat overcast light.Week of 13 JulyGranadero tomatoes on 17 July, a truss of five or six egg-shaped fruits, whitish-green and quite smooth under a faint waxy bloom, hanging each on its own jointed stalk with a single spent marigold head collapsing above them in soft light.Week of 20 JulyGranadero tomatoes on 20 July, four or five pale plum-shaped fruits on an arching truss with an obvious knuckle joint partway along it, their sepals hooked back over each shoulder, two spent yellow flowers still at the far end in hard sun.Week of 20 JulyGranadero tomatoes on 23 July, five blunt-ended plums bunched tight on one stalk with their sepals folded back hard against the shoulders, the two at the front already paling to creamy white-yellow, unblemished and glossy in hard sun.
