Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 20 JulyA sowing on 24 July with nothing up yet, the pelleted seed still lying along its drill lines and flecks of mica glittering through the mix, and the whole right-hand third of the bed under standing water, brown puddles with the soil showing through.Week of 27 JulyTwo seedlings caught at the moment of emergence on 30 July, one still bent double as a pale yellow loop with no leaf open, the other a pair of thread-fine straps crossed flat in an X with the seed coat at their base, on wet glistening near-black soil.Week of 24 AugustDanvers 126 carrots on 27 August, a steel bed seen from its corner and sown unevenly — a thick band of ferny seedlings straight down the middle, thinning to scattered singles at the far end — with mown grass beyond the metal.Week of 31 AugustDanvers 126 carrot tops left unthinned on 4 September and coming on uneven — a tall dark mass through the right two thirds, the nearest plants still short and open in loose rosettes — with low sun behind turning the front fronds translucent chartreuse.
