Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 3 AugustOne seedling on 5 August alone in a wet cell, a pair of wedge-shaped blades with one splayed flat and the other still folded up along its midline, both translucent where the light comes through and beaded all over with droplets.Week of 7 SeptemberLettuce Brentwood on 11 September, a deep wine-red rosette whose oak-lobed, crisped leaves run straight onto broad flat whitish-pink midribs with no stalk, pale pink ribbing beneath. Clear water beads sit in every fold under flat gray overcast.Week of 21 SeptemberBrentwood lettuce on 22 September, a young loose-leaf rosette no wider than a hand span, its fifteen or so sessile leaves fanning from pale pink midribs into near-black burgundy frilled margins. Dew beads on every surface under flat overcast light.
