Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 1 JuneEarly June strawberries on 5 June, low rosettes of three-part leaves whose saw teeth are tipped faintly red and whose raised veins pucker the blade, one crown already running a red stolon out across the mix, in warm low evening sun.Week of 8 JuneAn Early June strawberry ripening lopsided on 12 June, salmon-pink flushed down one side of a cream receptacle with a corky pink band round its waist and its seeds standing proud in a dome at the top, in sun hard enough to light every leaf hair.Week of 15 JuneTwo Early June strawberries picked on 15 June, one pinched into three or four rounded lobes with a puckered seam across its face and its seeds banded where they meet, the other near-spherical with a scuffed pale patch at the crown, in dim flat indoor light.Week of 15 JuneEarly June strawberries on 19 June, caged under a dome of black mesh that glints wet where the sun strikes it, two scarlet blurs deep in the shade behind it, and out in full sun a bristly runner arcing across the compost with a tight bud at its tip.Week of 15 JuneFive Early June strawberries picked on 21 June, each scarlet but still cream-blush at the shoulder where the calyx shaded it, their seeds sunk in dimples ringed with a raised paler halo, wet skins catching the only highlight in dim indoor light.
