Kusatori
Written by: adekun on 26 February, 2010 6:08 pm - Filed under: blog — No Comments »
It was 21°C yesterday. With all this rain and sunshine I expect the weeds will get off to a good start this year. The asparagus bed is already ahead of the pack; full of rogue grasses that are already hopelessly intertwined with their hosts. The wind has been strong too, the first spring wind (haruichiban) has passed.
Welcome to the Jungle
Written by: adekun on 7 July, 2009 6:54 pm - Filed under: garden — No Comments »
Upon our return, the view of the garden did bewilder. It was great to see how much things had come on in the short time we were away. Kabocha had climbed up the sweet corn and over the tomatoes, many of which were ripe. It’s warmer than it was in England and horribly humid. The coming weeks weeding is unlikely to be pleasant.
No rain, no mulch. There's still the bicycle somebody dumped.
Two weeks later, overflowing with weeds and pumpkin leaves,
Micro-weeding
Written by: adekun on 8 May, 2009 11:13 pm - Filed under: garden — No Comments »
Maya’s baby tweezers were put to good use with her in the sling and the seed trays in front. Her mother wasn’t too enthralled, despite the uncluttered seedlings. There’s a reasonable showing from the chilli peppers, hopefully the habaneros will make an appearance soon. Rhubarb looking fine.
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.
Steaming weeds
Written by: adekun on 27 July, 2008 11:49 pm - Filed under: blog — No Comments »
Instead of knocking something up in the kitchen a couple of hours were spent in the sweltering heat pulling up weeds. Only a week prior had a strip been cleared but that was already engulfed. The relaxed ‘living mulch’ approach isn’t working at this time of year. Following a thunderstorm seemed like a better time to set about the task. The bulk of the weeds are grasses in addition to the ubiquitous kudzu and Japanese knotweed. I’d quite like to find out the names of to of the other weeds. One is a grass that produces a big clump of roots and the other little rootlets or perhaps weedlets.
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.
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°.
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