Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 29 JuneA dozen transplants on 29 June crowded into six cells, each drawn up on a bare stem that bends in a loose S and purples toward the base, carrying a small rosette of waxy blue-green leaves veined white, one of them bleached clean through.Week of 20 JulyYoung brassicas on 20 July, open rosettes of spoon-shaped blue-green leaves dulled by a waxy bloom, each tapering into a winged petiole with a broad whitish midrib, nothing heading up yet and the photographer's shadow across the frame.
