Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 15 JuneAn Oregon Spring tomato on 18 June, two hard green fruits and one shriveling yellow flower still hanging together on the same hairy truss, and at soil level a main stem snapped off short to a pale stub, in flat bright overcast with no shadow.Week of 29 JuneOregon Spring tomatoes on 29 June, three flattened globes on one truss still matt pale green under a faint bloom, each capped by five or six long recurved sepals, the hairy stalks kinked at the knuckle and the leaves silvered by hard low sun.Week of 6 JulyOregon Spring tomatoes on 9 July, four on one branching truss and not one of them turned yet — two ribbed across the shoulders, a third pear-shouldered above them — every skin waxy and beaded, one drop hanging clear off the bottom of the nearest.Week of 20 JulyOregon Spring tomatoes on 20 July, at least eight on one plant at once — the lowest three flushed creamy yellow on the sunlit side, the largest ribbed and flattened across the shoulder — beaded with water, a hand holding a branch aside.Week of 20 JulyAn Oregon Spring tomato on 20 July at the turn, an amber-orange flush spreading up from the blossom end across one cheek while the shoulder holds yellow-green, water beaded over the whole taut skin, two still hard green behind it.Week of 20 JulyAn Oregon Spring tomato plant on 23 July carrying eight unripe fruit over three trusses, flattened globes creased across the shoulders and bleached almost cream-white on the sunlit side, every stalk and pedicel furred white in hard sun from the left.
