Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 8 JuneLong-day yellow onions on 14 June, two clumps to one bag, each a flat fan of hollow tubular leaves that rise straight then arch over, the bulbs already swelling in dry papery tan scales with wiry roots trailing across the surface, in dim indoor light.Week of 8 JuneYellow onions on 14 June, their leaves round and hollow rather than flat, blue-green and kinked right over at the tips, each bulb at soil level wrapped in a coppery-pink papery tunic already splitting and peeling back, in soft light off sawn timber.Week of 6 JulyYellow onions on 9 July, hollow blue-green tubes sprawling out in every direction with several tips dried straw-brown and kinked over — and at the base one papery bulb pushed half out of the soil, its dry outer scales already loosening, in hard low side light.
