Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 8 JuneA Pineapple Tomato on 14 June in a covered bay where a warm bulb on one wall meets cool daylight flooding in from the open side — short and widely branched, soil splashed in dark specks across its lowest leaves, the two behind it drawn up and drooping.Week of 8 JuneA Pineapple Tomato just set on 14 June, one thin stem leaning in a shallow S and furred with short white hairs, its leaves spaced far apart and the shoots at the top still small, the hollow where the root ball went in not yet filled, in even indoor daylight.Week of 8 JunePineapple Tomatoes on 14 June, two dozen plantings running back across dead straw-brown grass in two generations — spindly newcomers in front, dense bushy plants behind — with a clapboard house and heavy woodland closing off the far end in hazy light.Week of 6 JulyA Pineapple tomato on 9 July, its nodes tinged purple and every stem and leaf stiff with white hairs holding water, several of the lowest leaves gone bright yellow — the toe of a rubber boot entering at the corner, long shadows in low warm side light.Week of 3 AugustA Pineapple Tomato on 4 August shot from underneath so it hangs over the viewer, its shoulder split into six broad ribs with deep creases between them, still matte green and paling to near-white at the blossom end, its fine hair rimmed silver by backlight.Week of 17 AugustA Pineapple Tomato on 19 August, close to the lens and wholly unripe — five big lobes radiating from a puckered crown, apple-green paling toward one side with no red anywhere — and a clutch of tan toadstools risen beside it in dappled sun.Week of 17 AugustA Pineapple Tomato on 22 August stood on its blossom end, ribbed into nine broad lobes like a small pumpkin, lemon yellow over most of it and greener in the grooves, with rose and salmon blushes bleeding up the flanks under warm indoor light.Week of 24 AugustA Pineapple Tomato on 25 August, deeply ribbed and glossy yellow-orange with its one red blush low on a shoulder rather than at the top, set alone on a small saucer with a bowl of smaller fruit behind it and the frame darkening at its edges.Week of 7 SeptemberA Pineapple Tomato hangs unripe on 11 September, broad and squat with deep vertical creases dividing it into lobes, green shading to pale cream on one face, a twin of the same size behind it on the woody truss in soft dappled shade.
