Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 1 JuneJet Star tomatoes on 5 June, a cup apiece in two trays out on the gravel, gray-green and bristled white along every rib, their mix topped with coarse pale vermiculite — one cup down to bare soil and a cut stub, clover creeping in.Week of 8 JuneTwo Jet Star tomatoes on 14 June, planted well apart and both short and open with long bare stretches of stem, one lower leaf on the left-hand plant collapsed and gone black along its whole length, under indoor light that lays only soft shadows.Week of 8 JuneTwo Jet Star tomatoes sharing one planting on 14 June, stout-stemmed and matte mid-green with coarsely toothed leaflets, out on flattened straw-and-green grass among more of the same at every size, under flat overcast light that casts no shadow at all.
