Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 22 JuneA pepper seedling with six flat green leaves in a black fabric grow bag, a handwritten label behind it, the compost heavily flecked with white perlite.Week of 22 JuneA pepper plant in a straw-mulched black fabric grow bag with a handwritten label at its foot, ranks of similar straw-topped bags and rough grass behind.Week of 20 JulyA small dark green pepper, squat and creased like a lantern, hanging at the centre of a pepper plant with sunlit leaves and a yellow bucket blurred below.Week of 27 JulyTwo squat, deeply ridged dark-green peppers on the plant, one above the other, with pale yellow peppers out of focus in a grow bag behind.Week of 3 AugustLobed green bonnet-shaped peppers crowding the top of a plant, their skins puckered and glossy, with black fabric grow bags and mown grass falling away behind.Week of 24 AugustA pepper plant hung with squat lobed green fruit along its stems, tied to a green metal stake with a velcro strap, with black fabric bags and lawn behind.Week of 24 AugustA squat lobed dark green pepper hanging from a stem strapped to a stake with a green velcro tie, with lawn, trees and blue sky blurred behind.Week of 24 AugustSquat lantern-shaped peppers clustered on one plant, broad and crumpled at the shoulders and pinched to a small blunt tip, four still deep green and two ripened to glossy amber-orange.Week of 24 AugustA cluster of squat lantern-shaped peppers on one plant, broad and crumpled at the shoulders, most still deep green with one ripened to glossy amber-orange and another turning below.Week of 31 AugustA pepper plant carrying a dozen squat lantern-shaped fruit, broad and deeply crumpled at the shoulders, about half still deep green and half ripened to a rich golden orange.
