Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 1 JuneA pepper plant with broad glossy leaves in a small black pot on a whitewashed table, a printed label laid across it and seedling trays all around, a pair of feet at the bottom edge of the frame.Week of 6 JulyA pepper plant with dark leaves speckled with dried spray rising from the straw of a black fabric grow bag, with paving and flattened cardboard around its base.Week of 27 JulyPale yellow tapering peppers hanging low on a plant in a black fabric grow bag, straw mulch beneath them and a green fruit catching the light on the branch above, with labelled bags beyond.Week of 3 AugustTwo large pale-yellow peppers hanging close on the plant, glossy and flecked with water, over straw mulch, with more of the same behind them.Week of 3 AugustPale yellow blocky peppers hanging thickly on a plant in a black fabric grow bag, straw mulch and a small white label below and red-orange mulch behind.Week of 3 AugustTwo big tapered peppers close on the plant, one pale yellow and one turning orange, hanging over straw mulch in a black fabric grow bag.Week of 3 AugustA tapered pepper flushed orange hanging beside paler yellow ones, straw mulch below and black fabric grow bags behind.Week of 10 AugustPale yellow peppers and one turning orange hanging together on the plant, straw mulch in a black fabric grow bag below and red-orange mulch beyond.Week of 10 AugustPeppers hanging pale yellow and orange on a plant in a black fabric grow bag, straw mulch below and rows of staked plants behind.Week of 10 AugustA large golden-yellow pepper hanging by a thick green stalk, its shoulder faintly flushed orange, with paler cream fruit behind and straw mulch in a black fabric bag below.Week of 17 AugustA blocky pepper ripened to deep orange-gold hanging beneath a thick green stem, over straw mulch in a black fabric grow bag, with a white label pushed into the straw beside it.
