Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 8 JuneA tomato plant staked to a bamboo cane in a black fabric grow bag, a handwritten label at the rim, standing in an open garage bay with woodland and a fence beyond.Week of 8 JuneA young tomato plant in a wide black fabric grow bag of dark perlite-flecked compost, a handwritten label beside it, with stacked orange buckets and a timber wall behind.Week of 8 JuneRows of black fabric grow bags of tomato plants on bamboo canes set out across mown grass, with a split-rail fence, a brown house and woodland behind under flat grey light.Week of 6 JulyA straggling tomato plant with yellowing lower leaves in a black fabric grow bag over straw mulch, a bamboo cane alongside, a pink label at the rim and a shoe at the frame edge.Week of 3 AugustA large ribbed green tomato close on the vine, its shoulders faintly striped, with a black fabric grow bag and straw mulch behind.Week of 17 AugustA very large ribbed tomato, still green shading to yellow across its shoulders, cradled in a hand close to the camera, with red-orange mulch and foliage blurred behind.Week of 17 AugustA large ribbed heirloom tomato, pale yellow flushed with orange and pink across its shoulders, sitting on a patterned kitchen towel. Behind it, out of focus, four or five deep red tomatoes and one still green rest on the counter.Week of 24 AugustA large deeply ribbed tomato, glossy yellow-orange with a red blush low on one shoulder, sitting on a small saucer with a glass bowl of smaller mixed tomatoes behind it on a kitchen counter.
