Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 29 JunePepper seedlings crowded in a black six-cell tray on a green tarpaulin, their leaves broad and glossy, a handwritten label leaning against the front cells.Week of 6 JulyA pepper seedling with chewed leaves in a straw-mulched fabric grow bag, a handwritten label beside it and more bags standing in the grass behind.Week of 6 JulyA small pepper plant with dew-flecked leaves in a straw-mulched black fabric grow bag, a handwritten label leaning at its rim and more bags close around in low sun.Week of 20 JulyA young pepper plant carrying two small green peppers in a black fabric grow bag mulched with straw, a pink handwritten label pushed into the straw beside it.Week of 20 JulyA young pepper plant holding two glossy green peppers in a black fabric grow bag, straw mulch around its stem and a white label in front.Week of 3 AugustThree blocky green peppers hanging on a plant in a black fabric grow bag over straw mulch, their shoulders glossy in the light, white labels standing in the bags behind.Week of 17 AugustA blocky bell pepper held in an open hand, its skin still green across the bottom and ripening to orange over the shoulders, above straw mulch and a black fabric grow bag.Week of 24 AugustA large blocky pepper ripening unevenly from yellow through orange to deep red-orange and running with dew, with a lemon-yellow one behind it and a third still green.Week of 24 AugustTwo large thick-walled peppers resting on straw, blocky at the shoulder and tapering to a lobed blunt point, one ripened to deep glossy orange-red and the other still yellow-gold.
