Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 29 JuneA Sun Sugar tomato on 29 June holding one open truss of small pale yellow stars clear of its own leaves, their petals swept back, its branches drawn out long and leaning across the bench among two or three more of the same, in dim light.Week of 6 JulyA Sun Sugar tomato on 12 July, shot from the ground against a cloudless blue sky, its first truss open — small yellow stars with the petals swept back off a fused anther cone — and every bristle on the stem lit up white by the low sun.Week of 6 JulyA Sun Sugar tomato on 12 July growing low and wide instead of upright, long thin branches running out in every direction with the newest leaflets fresh yellow-green at the tips, under low sun that cuts a hard diagonal shadow across the frame.Week of 20 JulySun Sugar tomatoes on 20 July, three in a row on one hairy truss and each wider than the leaflets beside it are long, the left one already cream-yellow while the other two hold a darker band across the shoulder, hard leaf shadows over all three.Week of 20 JulyA Sun Sugar tomato on 23 July, one small green marble of a fruit with its hairy sepals spread right back, on a plant whose leaflets have crumpled and curled their margins upward, seen from underneath with the stems bristling into strong sun.Week of 7 SeptemberFive Sun Sugar tomatoes on one truss on 8 September, all still hard green and furred with short pale hairs that catch the light — one at the top of the cluster already smoother and shinier than the rest, with a faint olive-bronze cast over its shoulder.Week of 7 SeptemberTwo Sun Sugar tomatoes touching side by side on an overcast 11 September, one a warm golden yellow-orange and the other a shade behind, still yellow with a green cast — fine hairs standing off both glossy skins below a thick, densely hairy truss.Week of 14 SeptemberSun Sugar tomatoes ripening on 16 September, six fruits along one zig-zag truss graded from two glossy golden yellow-orange at the branch end to three still matte green at the tip. Soft overcast light, no shadows.
