Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 29 JuneA Margaret Curtain tomato on 29 June gone top-heavy on a long bare stem, its growing point and side branches arching over and hanging down, and a mat of pale roots out through the bottom of the pot and sprawling across the bench.Week of 13 JulyA Margaret Curtain tomato on 17 July shot from below into low sun, every long stiff hair on stem and sepal lit white from behind, five or six pale yellow flowers nodding along the truss — some still furled into a cone, some reflexed right back.Week of 3 AugustMargaret Curtain tomatoes on 5 August, two hard green globes faintly ribbed at the shoulder with paler striping and a small scar at the blossom end, their bristly sepals curled right back, seen from inside the plant against high white cloud.Week of 7 SeptemberOne Margaret Curtain tomato in extreme close-up on 8 September, its skin stippled all over with white dots that resolve at this magnification into the bases of short hairs, one of them curving clear of the shoulder — everything behind it thrown out of focus.
