Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 1 JuneBroccoli seedlings with crinkled blue-grey leaves crowded in a pot, a printed label resting across them, with paler lettuce foliage and a timber post behind.Week of 8 JuneA single small broccoli seedling in a black fabric grow bag, its compost dark and speckled with perlite, a wooden label in front, with an orange bucket and a white tub behind.Week of 22 JuneA cluster of black fabric grow bags on rough grass, each holding a young broccoli with broad blue-grey leaves in straw mulch and a small white label, red-stemmed leaves in the bags behind.Week of 22 JuneA small dark green broccoli head forming at the centre of its plant, pale ribbed stems and broad leaves fanning out around it beaded with rain, straw mulch showing below.Week of 22 JuneA small dark green broccoli head at the centre of its plant, broad blue-green leaves holed and beaded with rain arching over it, straw mulch showing between them.Week of 6 JulyA small tight broccoli head at the centre of a rosette of broad blue-grey leaves beaded with water, a terracotta pot rim and straw mulch beyond.Week of 6 JulyA broccoli plant with a small green head just forming at its crown, blue-grey leaves spreading over the straw of its black fabric grow bag between more broccoli in a row.Week of 6 JulyA small tight green broccoli head at the centre of blue-grey ribbed leaves, water standing in droplets along the midribs, with straw mulch and a black pot behind.Week of 6 JulyA green broccoli head at the centre of blue-grey leaves under heavy dew, with brown cardboard sheeting, grass and a black pot behind.Week of 6 JulyA green broccoli head beaded with dew at the centre of broad blue-grey leaves, straw and wood chip mulch showing between the black pots behind.
