Wednesday’s weeding
Written by: adekun on 16 June, 2010 5:52 pm - Filed under: garden — 2 Comments »
Garden somewhat weeded
The rainy season reached Kagoshima on Friday. Rain reached here yesterday. Strangely, today is hot and cloudless. With work starting late in the day, there wasn’t reason to skimp the blossoming garden chores. June is especially punishing if the weeds are untamed. Firstly, the month grants ideal conditions for them to run rampant. Second, it is generally an unpleasant time to exert oneself outside; hot and humid with purposeful mosquitoes on the prowl. Continue reading
Patient garden
Written by: adekun on 26 March, 2010 3:11 pm - Filed under: garden — No Comments »
Veg garden in March
The garden has been awaiting attention a good while now. The most pressing job is to sort out the asparagus bed. Rainwater collects there and does a good job of preventing the plants from drying out. The downside is that many seeds also get washed up there. I expect many of the roots are entwined and a heavy handed approach is the only way to clear it of weeds.
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.
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