Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 1 JuneA Moskvich Heirloom on 5 June, shot from soil level so the plant arches right over the top of the frame — side shoots already breaking at several axils and every stem and leaf edge furred white where the light runs along it.Week of 15 JuneA Moskvich Heirloom tomato on 15 June, one green fruit about as wide as the cane it hangs against, matte under a bloom of very fine white hairs with its sepals splayed back off the shoulder, the stems around it bristling stiff and white in direct sun.Week of 22 JuneFive Moskvich tomatoes on one truss on 25 June, not a hint of color break in any of them — dark green bands running down from each stem end over shallow shoulder ribs, and the whole truss furred white where the overcast light comes through it.Week of 29 JuneA Moskvich tomato on 29 June seen from inside its own canopy, four fruit in shot at four different sizes and every one ribbed hard over the shoulders, the leaves around them turned edge-on and silvered where they meet the sun.Week of 6 JulyA Moskvich Heirloom tomato on 7 July shot from inside the plant looking out, its stems crossing the frame in every direction and the fruit in the corner wearing its sepals upright as a crown rather than swept back, water beaded on the skin.Week of 6 JulyA Moskvich Heirloom tomato on 7 July shot up into a flat white sky, four or five hard green fruit hanging matte under a faint bloom with a spreading star of sepals over each, the ribbed stems below them furred short and white.Week of 6 JulyA Moskvich Heirloom tomato on 7 July with eight fruit at every size on it at once, the two largest flattened and creased right across their lobed shoulders, and at the bottom of one truss a fruit so new its sepals are still wrapped round it.Week of 20 JulyMoskvich Heirloom tomatoes on 20 July, two flattened green globes furrowed deep across the shoulders and each holding one hard white highlight, low in a row that spills out over mown grass with a hose lying in a long curve beyond.Week of 20 JulyA Moskvich Heirloom on 23 July, reached only by pushing in through the canopy, pale green and glossy above and soft orange-pink with a cream shoulder below, and a leaf lying across exactly where the two would meet, blue sky showing at the top.Week of 20 JulyMoskvich Heirloom tomatoes on 23 July at three stages: a butter-yellow fruit standing in front of a flat green one, a ribbed green fruit above it and, deep in the shade behind, a single one gone orange-red, the upper leaves backlit translucent.Week of 10 AugustA picked Moskvich Heirloom tomato on 10 August from directly overhead, still grass-green and stippled all over with tiny raised white dots, healed silvery-tan cracks fanning out of the stem well and two long arcs sweeping around the shoulder.
