Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 1 JuneA Super Sweet 100 on 1 June, side shoots already breaking from every leaf axil and white bristles standing out along each stem, its leaves twisting over to show undersides several shades grayer, in a shed crowded bag against bag.Week of 1 JuneA young transplant on 5 June, soft and slightly droopy, its divided leaves furred along stem and underside and coarsely toothed on every leaflet, with low evening sun coming in from the left and laying long shadows across the lawn behind.Week of 1 JuneA Super Sweet 100 tomato on 5 June, back-lit by low evening sun that comes straight through the leaves, its lower branches arching out and away, some leaflets pinpricked with small pale spots and notched where something has chewed them.Week of 15 JuneA Super Sweet 100 on 19 June, bristling, long white hairs furring the stem and the branch forks and above all the flower trusses and lit up by strong midday sun, two round green fruits hanging below them and one yellow flower open among the buds.Week of 22 JuneA Super Sweet 100 tomato on 25 June, six or seven fruits spaced alternately down one hairy zigzag stalk, every one still deep glossy green and backed by a star of thin hairy sepals curving away from the shoulder, mown lawn bright beyond the rail.Week of 29 JuneA Super Sweet 100 tomato on 29 June, ten fruit strung down one arching hairy truss that graduates from full green globes at the top to wilted flowers still hanging at the bottom, each of them holding a drop of dew in bright morning sun.Week of 29 JuneSuper Sweet 100 tomatoes on 1 July, a branched truss of more than a dozen hanging in pairs and threes, none of them wider than the stem is thick at its base, with flowers still opening above them in hard sun under a deep blue sky.Week of 6 JulySuper Sweet 100 tomatoes on 7 July, more than a dozen on one branched truss graded straight down its length from the biggest at the shoulder to pea-sized at the tip, every one still green and beaded with water in flat light.Week of 6 JulyEight small round fruits on 12 July, picked and laid out on a folded paper towel indoors and still beaded from a rinse — two pale yellow-green, three half turned to gold, three an even apricot-orange, not a stalk or calyx left on any of them.Week of 6 JulySuper Sweet 100 tomatoes on 12 July, a truss of five packed tight together and only beginning to whiten — the topmost gone pale yellow-green with a warm blush while the rest hold cool green — hanging on knuckled pedicels above a split-rail fence and trees.Week of 6 JulyOne round fruit on 12 July, picked and set on a scratched wooden board indoors — matt gray-green shading to creamy yellow across its lower half, no stalk or calyx left on it — with a long curved summer squash behind, flecked cream and faintly striped.Week of 13 JulySuper Sweet 100 tomatoes on 17 July, one branching truss snaking down through the plant with a dozen or more glossy green fruit on a zigzagging rachis, the shoulders faintly striped darker and the youngest at the far end still pea-sized.Week of 20 JulySuper Sweet 100 tomatoes on 20 July, still green and strung five in a row along one branching truss with further clusters of eight hanging below, each faintly striped darker and each holding its own hard white highlight in the noon sun.Week of 20 JulySuper Sweet 100 tomatoes on 23 July, a dozen and more strung along one branched truss that runs clear across the frame, each faintly striped darker down the sides with a paler ring at the stem end, bristles lit white along the whole stalk.Week of 7 SeptemberA branching Super Sweet 100 tomato truss on 11 September, its fruits mostly glossy green and striped, one glowing amber-orange over green — the stems bristling with long glassy white hairs, most striking on a young shoot tip against pale sky.
