Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 1 JuneLong-day red onions on 5 June, five or six small fans scattered wide apart with bare ground between them, every shoot flushed red-purple where it leaves the soil and several tips already dried to straw, in low warm sunlight from the left.Week of 22 JuneRed onions on 25 June, six or eight to a bag and widely spaced, each a fan of hollow blue-green tubes off a neck already thickening and flushed faintly purple at soil level, their first leaves withered to straw and hanging limp in dry hazy sun.Week of 6 JulyRed onions on 9 July, each fan sprawling sideways from a single point with several leaves creased where the hollow tube has collapsed in on itself — and a faint red-purple blush at the base, right where the swollen white neck meets the mix, in raking sun.Week of 20 JulyRed onions on 20 July, tubular gray-green leaves rising in flat fans before arching out, each on a short neck flushed deep red-purple at the compost line, and a spiny young cucumber reaching in from off-frame at one corner in crisp noon light.Week of 24 AugustThree red onions on 26 August, shouldered up out of the mix with their papery skins already split and peeling back, deep red-purple beneath, their thick hollow leaves flopped over sideways and dried to straw at the tips.
