Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 29 JuneA Red Grape tomato on 29 June, leggy enough that its lower branches sprawl well past the rim, with three or four yellow flowers out to one side, their petals flexed back into stars off cups of hairy sepals, under dim electric light.Week of 6 JulyA Red Grape tomato on 7 July still down to five or six leaves and no flower on it, each one gray-green and downy with small rounded leaflets tucked in between the main pairs, leaning out over clover in flower and beaded with rain.Week of 6 JulyA Red Grape tomato in flower on 12 July with nothing set yet — the petals bent sharply back off a protruding cone of fused anthers, the buds behind still shut in green cases fringed white, and the growing tip above them a dense silvery fuzz.Week of 6 JulyA young Red Grape tomato on 12 July, a single stem with nothing set on it yet, its leaflets coarsely toothed and furred white all over — low side light throwing hard-edged leaf shadows, clover pushing up through the paving joints beside it.Week of 3 AugustA Red Grape tomato on 5 August in flower down one side and in fruit on the other, yellow stars with their petals folded right back to the left and a truss of six or seven green fruit on a hairy zigzag stalk to the right, in low evening sun.Week of 3 AugustRed Grape tomatoes down the double row on 5 August, dozens of yellow flowers open at once with their petals reflexed into stars around a short cone, green buds below them and the first spent ones browning at the top of the tallest plant.Week of 7 SeptemberA Red Grape tomato on 11 September hanging from a hairy stalk that hooks over in a loop above it — a dull olive-brown to bronze, darker green streaks running down from the stem end — under bright hazy backlight that sparkles through the leaves.Week of 28 SeptemberA branched truss of Red Grape tomatoes on 29 September, about fourteen fruit ripening out of step down its zig-zag rachis, the lowest four or five still solid dark green while one at mid-left has gone amber-orange. Flat overcast light, hairs lit along the stems.
