End of the summer 08 veg

Written by: adekun on 22 August, 2008 8:32 am - Filed under: garden — 2 Comments »

Goodbye tomatoes

Towards the end of the weekend I thought I’d follow the crow’s lead and take advantage of the damp ground. A heap of weeds were brought together, rather like one of those Eastern European hay stacks fondly remembered. Elsewhere, more potatoes were planted; about half the amount of the previous lot. Once the tomatoes and cucumbers were removed, everywhere was dug over before a scattering of red clover seeds. There’s still a few pepper and chilli pepper plants that are good and the aubergines should last a bit longer.

Tags: cucumbers, garden, potatoes, tomatoes, weeds

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.

Tags: cucumbers, garden, kento, weather

Cold damage

Written by: adekun on 2 June, 2008 6:45 pm - Filed under: blog — 2 Comments »

Cucumber Plant I’m surer that it’s the case of the cucumber. The nodes are barely an inch apart and as yet no tendrils have appeared.
Tomato Plant
It seems more like numerous stems than side-shoots spawning from the tomato. While some of the other plants are leggy, this one only appears to be growing outwards. I don’t know if it’s due to a different complication or reason. It still has its top and I’m unsure if I should hack the sides off.

Tags: cucumbers, garden, tomatoes, weather

Cucumber harvested

Written by: adekun on 24 August, 2007 10:08 pm - Filed under: blog — 3 Comments »

We have had a bit of rain overnight, very much nearer the beginning of the week. The seedbed holds one uneaten kohlrabi, a few beetroot shoots, and a tangle of weeds that have appeared suddenly. The cucumbers have become few and far between, I took the last three and added the vine to the freshly charged compost bin. It’s brimming with weeds at the moment. Below is possibly the pick of the crop.
Japanese cucumber (kyuri)
I gave the patch chosen for the raspberries and digging over. It should be double dug it, but it so hot and humid (earlier today it was 35°C). I really can’t be arsed, the raspberries can’t wait until I can. After a few hours, I called it an afternoon and had a beer (it isn’t beer though).
I quite liked the idea of swapping it for a Strigil, the tool used to scrape in Roman baths.

Tags: cucumbers, garden

Tomatoes and the typhoon

Written by: adekun on 14 July, 2007 3:05 pm - Filed under: blog — No Comments »

Presently I’m watching the news to see where the latest typhoon is headed. Over the past couple of days it has moved up from Okinawa and is now passing over Kagoshima at the bottom of the island of Kyūshū. It is expected to continue east over Shikoku towards Tokyo, good distance south of us. I guessed wrong about tsuyu (the rainy season) being behind us the time we returned to Japan. There has not been a day without heavy rain and strong wind since.
As a precaution, I decided to run the gauntlet and recover the ripe and almost ripe tomatoes, the cucumbers and aubergines.
tomatoes, aubergines and cucumber
Running up and down the rows, returning to the place a handful in a bowl, against the elements seemed comparable to a Japanese endurance game. Perhaps the star prize was an exotic red p-man.