Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 3 AugustSeedlings on 5 August, most with a first spoon-shaped leaf so brightly lit it burns out to white at the middle with green surviving only along the veins, and at the left a second sowing altogether, one still hooked over with its leaf bud shut.Week of 7 SeptemberParris Island Cos lettuce on 11 September, seven or eight rosettes in a galvanized tub, their puckered yellow-green blades beaded with water and the newest center leaves just cupping into loose hearts. Light is flat and shadowless.Week of 21 SeptemberParris Island Cos lettuce on 22 September, eight or so half-grown rosettes packed close, their broad crumpled leaves lifting upright around wide pale midribs but not yet closing into hearts. Flat overcast light, soil dark and damp.Week of 28 SeptemberParris Island Cos lettuce on 29 September, the near bands of yellow-green rosettes just starting to cup into loose hearts with a few inner leaves blanched pale, red oakleaf and bronze looseleaf behind. Flat overcast light, droplets still on the leaves.
