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Aug 14, 2012

Digging sweet potatoes for a test

Most of workers in Japan are having the Buddhism holidays this week and they usually go back to their home town to spend the holidays with their parents relaxing themselves. My family are also staying at my parents' home watching the Olympic games, eating and drinking. But my vegetables don't have the holidays. They need water and care everyday while my summer vegetables like cucumbers and tomatoes are getting weak due to scorching sunlight. I have to pull them out and prepare soil for next autumn vegetables like cabbages, pakchoi and Chinese cabbages.
My sweet potatoes are growing healthy and the extension of their vines shows that. For seeing how big the potoroos are, I digged some of them out. I got 2 sweet potatoes and they are as big as my hand having small roots around them. They are still young and I have to wait for at least a month. I've not cared the sweetpotatoes so much with watering them twice a week since they are so strong that they can grow in harsh environment with less care than other vegetables.

Therefore I don't need go to my gardening plot everyday during the Buddhism holidays thanks to the sweet potatoes.

--from iPad

2 comments:

Bom said...

My son and I tried potted pokchoi but were not successful. Any tips?

takaeko said...

>Bom
Well, I always pay attention to the way to thin them out at younger stage.
We could feel hesitated to thin out many young sprouts but we dare thin them out for securing enough space to grow them.