Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 13 JulyA slender green pepper hanging over straw mulch beside a bamboo cane, handwritten labels pushed into the same bed, with black grow bags and woodland behind.Week of 20 JulyFive young pepper plants spaced across a rectangular bed of red-orange bark mulch cut into mown grass, a black tray of grassy seedlings and a coiled hose at its edges.Week of 3 AugustA long curved pepper ripening from green to orange at its tip, held to a green metal stake by a green strap, over red-orange bark mulch.Week of 3 AugustA long pepper ripening bronze along its length beside a green metal stake, standing in a black fabric grow bag topped with bark and perlite, a handwritten label in the soil.Week of 3 AugustA single long pepper curving down from a green metal stake, olive at the shoulder and red at the tip, over a wide bed of red-orange bark mulch.Week of 10 AugustA long red pepper strapped to a green metal stake in a black fabric grow bag, the compost topped with bark and perlite and a white label pushed in beside it.
