Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 8 JuneTwo black fabric grow bags of young tomato plants on bamboo canes standing on a green plastic crate in a shed, with shelves of bottles and tubs and red and blue bins behind.Week of 22 JuneA young tomato staked to a bamboo cane in a black fabric grow bag, a handwritten label in the perlite-flecked compost, shelves of bottles and boxes behind.Week of 22 JuneA tomato plant carrying a truss of yellow flowers, tied to a green metal stake in a black fabric grow bag of dark perlite-flecked compost, a handwritten label at the rim.Week of 20 JulyA large ribbed green tomato hanging beside a bamboo cane, its calyx spread above it, with red-orange mulch and a black fabric grow bag behind.Week of 3 AugustA hand lifting foliage above a large ribbed green tomato on the vine, the plant standing in a black fabric grow bag mulched with straw.Week of 3 AugustLarge ribbed green tomatoes hanging from a leaning vine over black fabric grow bags, straw mulch below and red-orange mulch beyond.Week of 17 AugustA large green beefsteak tomato beaded with rain under a spidery calyx, a bamboo cane and green stake rising behind it, with more green fruit above and yellowing spotted leaves below.Week of 17 AugustTwo large ribbed green tomatoes covered in raindrops on a thick hairy stem, a bamboo cane tied with green twine beside them and red-orange mulch blurred behind.Week of 17 AugustThree large ribbed green tomatoes clustered around a green metal stake bound with a black velcro tie, their shoulders faintly striped, with brown-spotted leaves and red-orange mulch beneath.Week of 17 AugustA cluster of large, deeply ribbed green tomatoes hanging from a hairy stem, each still hard and unripe, with foliage and stakes out of focus behind.Week of 31 AugustFive or six large round green tomatoes on one plant, shallowly ribbed across their shoulders and held on hairy trusses inside a galvanised wire cage, the foliage above spotted and holed.
