Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 3 AugustSalad seedlings newly through on 5 August, the nearest with one clean pair of rounded cotyledons and those further back run leggy on drawn stems, one of them still no more than a pinhead of green, in warm low light from the right.Week of 7 SeptemberLettuce Australe on 11 September, a bed of young open rosettes with no heart yet, their puckered yellow-green leaves deepening to wine-red at every tip and margin, every blade beaded with water. Soft overcast light, no shadow anywhere.Week of 21 SeptemberLettuce Australe on 22 September, a bed of baby rosettes whose inner leaves are just folding upward into loose cos hearts, bronze and wine tips fading to chartreuse over flat pink-white midribs. Droplets sit unmoved in flat overcast light.
