Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 29 JuneA Yellow Pear tomato on 29 June, drawn up thin and reaching, its long bare internodes leaving the stem naked but for the nubs where the lower leaves were pinched off, the outermost leaflets gone pale yellow in dim indoor light.Week of 6 JulyA Yellow Pear tomato in early flower on 12 July, eight or nine narrow creamy bells drooping from hairy pedicels with their petals still folded or barely bent back — one leaflet almost circular and cupped beside them, a pitched roof faint among the trees.Week of 6 JulyA Yellow Pear tomato on 12 July, its truss hung with half a dozen pale yellow buds and part-open flowers on visibly bristled stalks, the sepals long and narrow, in early low sun that runs long soft shadows down the terraces toward the woodland.Week of 20 JulyYellow Pear tomatoes on 23 July, eight or nine on one branched truss and every one already necked, narrow at the stalk and swelling to a round belly below, all still even pale green with their hairy sepals swept right back in full sun.Week of 7 SeptemberFourteen Yellow Pear tomatoes crowd a single drooping truss on 8 September, every one still hard green with a frosted bloom over the upper faces and one carrying a healed split near its tip — the bristled stems around them peppered with dark sunken flecks.Week of 7 SeptemberTwo Yellow Pear trusses fork and fork again into a candelabra on 8 September, close to thirty green teardrops between them — the right-hand truss paler, glossier and more waisted than the dull furred left — every calyx splayed and curling like spider legs.Week of 7 SeptemberA truss of Yellow Pear tomatoes on 11 September, four green and striped darker lengthwise and one gone clear yellow but for green streaks toward the top — the fine hairs on each skin rim-lit so the fuzz stands out along its edge in soft daylight.
