Okayish onions
Written by: adekun on 30 June, 2008 6:53 am - Filed under: blog — 1 Comment »
Over the past month the small and sometimes misshapen onions have been harvested. Early on, those that had bolted were taken a used in curries and soup. There were quite a few of these; I think the cold may have stressed them. Kento heaved several out in the manner rather like in the story of the Giant Turnip. A little out of character Ritsue, spent the majority of two days weeding. 
With the onions gone the garden had the appearance of a chemist’s dimple tray. I practised tying a few red onions up, leaving me with purple fingers and what looked like a bunch of giant grapes.
First baby scan
Written by: adekun on 24 June, 2008 11:55 pm - Filed under: blog — 4 Comments »
Ritsue (my wife) is again pregnant. We went to the clinic this afternoon for the initial check and got a print of the first scan. The baby’s head is marked by cross at the bottom and a hand is visible between the two. Kento has already chosen the name of ‘bird’.
Baby scan
Raining cucumbers
Written by: adekun on 20 June, 2008 9:32 pm - Filed under: blog — 2 Comments »
Kento has had quite a temperature over the past two days; just as it has become really humid. It’s been quite difficult through day and night as he has been uncomfortable. The rainy season arrived but it still remains horribly sticky. Once the rain has passed we can look forward to some drier but super hot weather. Outside I collected the first cucumber with a better feeling Kento.
The Premium Muroka
Written by: adekun on 16 June, 2008 8:26 pm - Filed under: beer review — No Comments »
7
5.5%
¥261
Deep and rich taste from non-filtered process
Brewer Kirin
Style Other
This made a nice change from the regular brews, it certainly is better. Another expensive premium brew in a bottle.
Profusion of weeds
Written by: adekun on 14 June, 2008 4:29 pm - Filed under: blog — 2 Comments »
I decided to evacuate one legume bed as a tide of weeds enveloped. The evacuees perked up after a nights rest. It leaves a question, what to grow. Getting some tubers in to break up the soil would be nice, that however will have to wait a season. Elsewhere, weeds of choking the tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and aubergines. The compost is giving the seeds that should have been sterilized a good start. I don’t really want to yank all of them out as the ground is already drying out, but even a few remainders seem to rapidly multiply. I should have thought about using the bags to collect some free mulch before laying a path on them.
Sweet potatoes got planted yesterday; two rows of beniazuma and three rows of beniaka (popularly known as kintoki). Having just reclaimed the land, thought they would be ideal as the ground is fairly poor. Little time was spent making shallow rows and inserting the slips at an angle somewhere between 30° and 45°.
Impromptu garlic harvest
Written by: adekun on 12 June, 2008 8:24 pm - Filed under: blog — No Comments »
Finishing the weeding I thought sod it. It is a bit early. A few lifted were of a decent size and there is the impending rainy season. In addition, not sure if rust has any effect on garlic in store as the little cluster of flecks had started to march.
Managed to collect above a hundred and twenty heads of the regular, three aomori and four elephant garlic heads. The stems of the latter are thicker than leeks. It didn’t take too long to give them a brush and bundle them up. Unfortunately, garlic scores pretty highly on the OH’s recent ‘taken a dislike to the smell/feel sick’ list.
Relaying the path
Written by: adekun on 10 June, 2008 11:33 pm - Filed under: blog — No Comments »
It would be great to be self sufficient in compost. Keeping the supplements to a minimum as the plot expanded has been to the detrimental to the yield of some of the plants. Even so, an accumulation of bags has built up. The staples are composted gyufun (cow manure) and pelleted keifun (chicken manure). Powered egg shells for calcium.
Workmen used some of the rocks recovered from the garden to fill an old septic tank. They were around to dig up pipes and left a pile of surplus crushed limestone. It all seemed quite timely as the tile path became in more uneven as weeds pushed through the joints.
Despite plastic sheeting advocates in some permaculture circles, I’m not too keen on the idea, especially as the bags may degrade. On the other hand, it was good to reuse the bags, the only cost in relaying the path was the time.
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