Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 27 JulyBrassica seedlings on 28 July with the first true leaf just unfurling on the biggest of them, and it comes up deep maroon-purple rather than green between two flat gray-green seed leaves on a stem flushed purple-red, in soft light from the left.Week of 3 AugustA brassica seedling on 5 August, its leaf stalks flushed dark maroon from the compost right up to the gray-green blades and the stem below showing no swelling at all, the tray around it matted with a thick green film of algae.Week of 24 AugustPurple Vienna kohlrabi on 27 August, stems and leaf veins a hard violet against gray-green blades, and on the middle plant the stem base has begun to swell into a smooth purple globe sitting right on the soil with its leaf stalks rising off the top.Week of 31 AugustA Purple Vienna kohlrabi on 4 September, its stem just beginning to swell into a smooth knob above the soil with the leaf stalks radiating off the swelling itself — red-purple from that point up, and so waxy that the dew stands in fields of silver beads.Week of 28 SeptemberPurple Vienna kohlrabi on 29 September, its swollen globe resting on the soil with vivid magenta petioles radiating out in every direction and a pale waxy bloom across its lower half. Flat overcast light, everything damp.
