Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 1 JuneA young tomato plant newly set in a black fabric grow bag beside a bamboo cane, a handwritten label in the perlite-flecked compost, with a split-rail fence behind.Week of 6 JulyA tomato plant growing up through a wire cage support and a bamboo cane, small green fruit clustered at the centre, standing in a straw-mulched fabric grow bag.Week of 13 JulyA large ribbed pale green tomato hanging inside a wire cage, foliage crowding around it, with red-orange mulch and black grow bags blurred behind.Week of 20 JulySeveral large ribbed green tomatoes crowding a single truss, a bamboo stake running up through them, red-orange mulch below.Week of 3 AugustLarge ribbed green tomatoes hanging inside a wire cage, the plant's stems tied up around it, with straw mulch and black fabric grow bags below.Week of 3 AugustA large pale green ribbed tomato hanging on the vine with its dried calyx curling over the top, a wire cage and a bamboo cane behind.Week of 24 AugustA tall caged tomato plant in a straw-topped grow bag carrying six or more large green fruit, the biggest broad and deeply ribbed, much of its foliage gone yellow and blotched brown.
