Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 1 JuneA Lettuce Leaf basil on 3 June, six broad glossy blades blistered up hard between their sunken veins, standing on an upturned step-stool under a grow light with a tangle of white and pink and yellow cords across the frame above.Week of 22 JuneA Lettuce Leaf basil on 26 June, three pairs of unusually broad blunt leaves cupped and deeply quilted and paling to lime along every raised area, with a short dried stub standing where the leading shoot would be, on a dull damp day.
