Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 15 JuneA Sunray tomato on 17 June, the white flecks scattered over its upper leaves not insects but angular chalky granules off the mix, each casting a tiny shadow of its own, and one lower leaflet gone soft yellow near the tip. Flat overcast light.Week of 15 JuneA Sunray tomato on 17 June already setting fruit, a swollen green ovary on a short hairy truss, and above it the spent flower hanging limply back along the stalk with its petals faded to cream and straw and a yellow flush still at their bases.Week of 29 JuneA Sunray tomato on 29 June seen down through its own leaves, a pale matt globe faintly ribbed at the shoulders and still holding fine dew, its stalk and sepals furred so thickly with white hairs that they catch the sun before the fruit does.Week of 6 JulyA Sunray tomato on 7 July, leggy and thin-leaved, its three hard fruit still pale green under a faint whitish bloom and loose sprays of yellow flowers hanging with their petals swept right back, in bright hazy light with barely a shadow.Week of 13 JulySunray tomatoes on 17 July, a truss of three pale yellow-green globes hanging nose-down with a five-pointed calyx pressed flat onto each shoulder, and two more trusses coming behind, under flat even overcast with no shadow anywhere.Week of 20 JulySunray tomatoes on 23 July, three or four flattened globes still creamy yellow-green with darker shoulders and a few pale streaks, one holding a hard white highlight, glandular hairs lit along every stem and calyx edge in direct sun.Week of 24 AugustTwo Sunray tomatoes on 26 August hanging close together from one thick hairy stem, both still round and green, the nearer of them just paling across the shoulder where the change starts, the trellis mesh behind them out of focus.
