tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4481374056690995102024-02-19T10:55:00.354+09:00Small vege garden in a suburbA novice vegetable gardener introduces the growth of vegetables, trips, and foods from Osaka, Japan.takaekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02935915593745969292noreply@blogger.comBlogger291125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448137405669099510.post-6441888378391980232014-11-17T12:45:00.000+09:002014-11-17T12:45:39.411+09:00My new gardening blog on Tsu.<a href="https://www.tsu.co/Takaeko">https://www.tsu.co/Takaeko</a><br />
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I created a new blog on Tsu.<br />
Please make your Tsu accout to visit there if you like.takaekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02935915593745969292noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448137405669099510.post-66752717585056160942013-10-12T21:24:00.001+09:002013-10-12T21:24:37.002+09:00Switching to a new Facebook page.Dear my blogging friends,<div>
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I've crated my new Facebook page (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/takaeko.vege">https://www.facebook.com/takaeko.vege</a>) on my gardening activities, which is named "Small vege garden in a suburb", same with that of the current blog and Due to the opening my new page, the current blog will not be updated.</div>
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I hope many friends from the world visit my new Facebook page!</div>
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<br />Best regards,<br />Takaeko</div>
takaekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02935915593745969292noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448137405669099510.post-48942999114493800282013-09-08T16:57:00.000+09:002013-09-08T17:03:21.558+09:00Bad result of test-digging a carrot<span style="background-color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;"><b> </b>I've realized through growing vegetables that my efforts and labors in my gardening activities don't always deserve a great harvest.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #6aa84f;"> A carrot, which I failed to grow in the past three years, seems to be still one of my most difficult vegetables for me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #6aa84f;"> Today I pulled out one of my carrots for a test and I saw it unusual at a glance.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #6aa84f;"> Some root-knots are seen on the carrot and it shows it seems to have <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root-knot_nematode">a root-knot disease</a>, of which I'm afraid most. The disease makes a look and taste of the infected vegetables bad.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;"> I carried out some prevention measures like planting marigolds which are effective to ward off </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="background-color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;"> I still have about 15 carrots in my garden but some of them could be infected with the disease. I just hope the damage would be minimized. :(</span></span><br />
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takaekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02935915593745969292noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448137405669099510.post-11651559299706722662013-07-16T01:53:00.003+09:002013-07-16T01:53:54.387+09:00The special bed for carrots I've experienced many failures in growing carrots like poor germination and <a href="http://greenvege-osaka.blogspot.jp/2012/06/tragedy-brought-by-heavy-rain.html">growth troubles.</a><br />
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1 A soil bed with no pebbles and soil mass<br />
2 An elevated soil bed for avoiding carrots from water soaking<br />
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Now it's in the middle of a hot summer with record-high temperature but I decided to create an special soil bed spending 2 hours! The height of the pad is about 30 cm (15 inches) so it's high enough to avoid flood.<br />
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A measure against bugs is also important to grow carrots. Young worms of a swallowtail butterfly is a big enemy for carrots so I covered the bed with a insect screen to ward off the butterfly.<br />
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Watering is another issue for gardeners growing carrots in this season in Japan. Carrot's germination requires watering everyday to keep the bed wet. So I used rice bran as you can see it on the photos shown below. Of course, I have to water them everyday through the hot summer,,,,.<br />
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<br />takaekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02935915593745969292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448137405669099510.post-33741947817325499382013-06-18T03:03:00.000+09:002013-06-18T03:55:22.378+09:00How really effective? I mentioned about the new organic methods for warding off aphids in my previous blog and it took about a month since the installation. Today I visited my garden to see how the methods were effective.<br />
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I would like you to compare those 2 photos, the left one showing a tomato tree of other gardener, who has his garden next to mine, with no aluminium foil and silver mulching sheets and the right one my tomato tree with the organic anti-aphid methods.<br />
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I was able to see clear difference between the trees in my garden and I hope you could see that through these photos,,,. The left tree is Tainted with more aphids while my tree have less aphid.<br />
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I make sure that my organic anti-aphid methods are almost effective through the comparison. I'm very happy to ward off aphids but I have a new problem,,,,,,less rain in this rainy season!<br />
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<br />takaekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02935915593745969292noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448137405669099510.post-28826753541260378482013-06-14T14:21:00.001+09:002013-06-14T14:21:58.225+09:00This week's harvest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I'm very happy to see the bumper harvest of summer vegetables but I and my wife are wondering how we can consume them? </div>
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Anyway, I sliced a cucumber harvested just now and enjoyed the sliced cucumbers with mayonnaise.</div>
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takaekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02935915593745969292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448137405669099510.post-36024178687268480832013-06-09T21:40:00.001+09:002013-06-09T21:40:43.919+09:00Harvesting onions and potatoes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I mentioned about less rain this rainy season and it may affect the growth of my summer vegetables but sunny days brought me the precious opportunity for harvesting onions and potatoes. It's good to harvest them in a sunny and dry day since rain can perish harvested potatoes and onions. Today I harvested all of purple onions and potatoes.</div>
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The onions leaves falling down to the ground show it's the time to harvest and they are not bolted. They are healthy and in a good shape with shiny purple color. I'll sliced a new purple onion to cook salad with cabbages.</div>
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I'm not satisfied with potatoes since they were smaller than I expected. I think the planting ridge was not wider than the last season so it didn't much space for growing them.</div>
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Due to the less rain than average, I have to visit my garden everyday to water my summer vegetables before going to my office. That kind of routine sounds boring but the fruits of labor like flowers and growing fruits animate me.<br />
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1. Eggplant<br />
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2 Cucumbers<br />
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3 Green eggplant's flower 4 Tomatoes<br />
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5 Basil<br />
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takaekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02935915593745969292noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448137405669099510.post-42062402834007765462013-05-13T17:23:00.000+09:002013-05-13T17:24:02.429+09:00Planting summer vegetables I was looking forward to planting summer vegetables because I installed some organic methods to ward off aphids as I mentioned in my previous blog. And I and my kids planted the sprouts on the gardening ridges covered with silver mulching sheets.<br />
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List of my summer vegetables:<br />
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2 eggplants<br />
1 <a href="http://img02.hamazo.tv/usr/aguristationnagura/sironasu.jpg">green eggplant</a><br />
3 tomatoes (Momotaro)<br />
2 cucumbers<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A green eggplant, my first try.</td></tr>
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I invented a new organic method to repel aphids! It's "a silver pole". It's very simple to make it! Just taping plastic poles with aluminium adhesive tape.<br />
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I hope those methods will be "silver bullets" for protecting my vegetables against bugs.<br />
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<br />takaekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02935915593745969292noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448137405669099510.post-10394940565938165002013-04-29T15:58:00.001+09:002013-04-29T17:48:04.032+09:00My organic challenge vol.2I don't want to use chemical pesticide but how can I ward off bugs organically especially aphids, which damage my vegetables every year?<br />
I studied aphids don't like reflected sunlight so I've tried aluminum tape to repel them. I found more effective thing on the Internet than the tape, I believe. I bought a roll of silver-colored mulch sheet, which is 1 meter-wide and 100-meter-long.<br />
The sheet is effective not only for repel bugs but for cooling down soil by reflecting sunlight. Today I covered my gardening ridges with the sheet.<br />
I'll plant tomatoes, eggplants and cucumbers there next week. Aphids love those summer vegetables so I strongly hope the sheet will work effectively.<br />
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<br />takaekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02935915593745969292noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448137405669099510.post-61784820588868784462013-04-28T17:11:00.000+09:002013-04-28T17:11:29.585+09:00My Organic Challenge I sometimes think how organically I can grow my vegetables when I plant new seed and sprouts.<br />
I believe I still have many things to be organic since I sometimes use chemical things like fertilizer and pesticide. What will happen if I switch those chemical things into organic ways? I decided I install some organic methods to grow my vegetables more Organically!<br />
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1. Installing companion plants<br />
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I believe companion plant method is so familiar among many gardeners and I tried to install the method to ward off beetles, aphids and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematode">namatodes</a>. I studied that marigolds are effective to ward off them so I and my kids bought 2 potted marigolds and planted then my gardening beds.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My kids are planting a marigold</td></tr>
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The companion plant method is not only for warding off bugs but for help vegetable's healthy growth. Planting sweet basil beside tomato trees is effective to make the tomatoes more delicious so I bought a pack of basil seeds and planted them at the edge of my gardening bed for tomato trees. I can enjoy the great combination for cooking Italian dishes when they will have grown!</center>
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2. Using leftover as fertilizer<br />
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My family loves miso-soup with clams and the shells were thrown away into a garbage can.<br />
I studied the shells contain a lot calcium, which is effective to neutralize soil. I hammered them to powder after I washed them to remove salt and dried them.<br />
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<br />takaekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02935915593745969292noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448137405669099510.post-25294049746721065272013-04-08T23:55:00.003+09:002013-04-08T23:55:44.025+09:00My kids spend the last day of their spring vacation in my garden. I'm very happy that I and my kids could spend the last day of their spring vacation working in my garden. I'm happy not only for their help but for their positive attitude toward working in my garden.<br /><br /> I did't asked them or invited them to come to my garden but they said "Take us to your garden, Dad!" when I left my house with my hoe. You can see their great jobs in my garden in the photos shown below.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mission 1 : Weeding</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mission 2 : Cultivating soil</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mission 3 : Covering ridges with black mulch-sheets</td></tr>
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When I see their positive attitude, I strongly believe my education through my gardening will make for establishing their views in a good way. I always tell my kids that we live on food like meat, vegetables, fish, what we can get by growing and killing them. They seem to feel or acknowledge how important it is to know how we live and how interesting and valuable it is to take part in gardening, where they can grow their food.takaekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02935915593745969292noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448137405669099510.post-3776019588574541252013-03-28T23:39:00.001+09:002013-03-28T23:39:26.751+09:00Exploring the rain forest in Iriomote island<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I had a dream for long time. It's exploring a rain forest with canoes. At last my dream came true!</div>
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My family have trip to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iriomote-jima">Iriomote island</a>, located in about 450KM southwest of Okinawa main island.</div>
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90% of the island is covered with rain forest and is famous for indigenous wild animals an plants and various kinds of activities in the forest.</div>
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We took part in a excursion tour to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pinaisara_iriomote_2007-04-05.jpg">the Pinaisala falls</a> with paddling in the river and trekking through the forest.</div>
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We found many kinds of tropical plants like <i style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15.333333015441895px; line-height: 22.64583396911621px;">Bruguiera gymnorhiza</i> in the mangrove forest along the river.</div>
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t was still cool to swim in the basin of the falls but we had a craving for doing it and at last we dared to dive into the water and swim! Look at a middle aged man diving into the water with joy! It's me! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">diving with yelling "Yeaaaaha!!"</td></tr>
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takaekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02935915593745969292noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448137405669099510.post-47506343926299661922013-02-01T02:34:00.001+09:002013-02-01T02:34:19.002+09:00Working in a cold day I hate a cold weather. I'm sensitive to cold temperature so I wear wool socks when I sleep. How about outside? Do you think I wear a shaggy fur coat when I work in my garden? If you think so, the idea could be a little exaggerated. I always bring some portable body warmers in a cold day but today was much colder than I expected! Look at the ice in a bucket! It's about 1cm-thick ice! I had to bear with the severely cold temperature with only 2 body warmers.<br />
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I wondered if my vegetables, especially my spinach, were growing well while the cold days but I felt relief when they grew well in a vinyl tunnel. The tunnel is very effective to keep the air inside warm judging from the growth of the spinach, which are as sensitive to cold temperature as me.<br />
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While I worked in my garden suffering the cold weather, my daughter was so brisk with vim and vigor that she cultivated the gardening ridges for the next seeding.</center>
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Today's harvest: 1 Chinese cabbage<br />
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Today's dinner: A hot pot dish with the Chinese cabbage, sliced pork and tofu boiled in miso-based soup.<br />
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<br />takaekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02935915593745969292noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448137405669099510.post-4540582861845200852012-12-27T11:16:00.004+09:002012-12-27T11:17:36.385+09:00Winter harvest I and my wife are delighted with beautifully grown Chinese cabbages and gingers. We see the great harvest as our best Christmas present!<br />
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As I mentioned in the previous blog, I tried to minimized usage of chemical things like pesticide and the beautiful cabbages show us my try is successful. All of my 5 Chinese cabbages have no damage by aphids and much fewer holes by young worms than in last year.<br />
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It's my first try to growing gingers but it's easier than I thought. I just payed attention only to watering since gingers hate dryness.<br />
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I planted only golf-ball sized seed ginger and it's amazing to see "multiplied gingers " from the small seed ginger. My wife will preserve sliced ginger in honey to add it to tea.<br />
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I have to admit I failed to grow my daikon radishes due to severe attack by aphids. I installed insect screens but I did't realized big holes on them! When I found the holes, many aphids hibernate on leaves of my radishes. They sucked the radish extract and most of the leaves were dead and that could cause the poor harvest.<br />
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Today I sowed spinach and pak-choi. They can be sown through a year but some measures have to be installed for them in a cold winter. A vinyl tunnel is one of my favorite and effective ways, which is easy to set up.<br />
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Setting up a vinyl tunnel is so easy that you don't need any instruction for it! We need just a rolled vinyl sheet, a set of 2 semi-sphere plastic poles and clothes-pegs.<br />
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The vinyl tunnel can warm up the air inside effectively and I measured the temperature and found about 5゜C warmer than outside. In one of my tunnels I set up, spinach have germinated even in chilly days.<br />
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-- iPhonetakaekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02935915593745969292noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448137405669099510.post-20643114551938852012-12-16T16:15:00.000+09:002012-12-16T16:15:32.888+09:00My cabbages My 8 Chinese cabbages and 4 cabbages including a purple cabbage have grown with less damage by bugs thanks to insect screen, <a href="http://greenvege-osaka.blogspot.jp/2012/09/installing-new-methods.html">companion plants, and yellow buckets</a> than in last year and they'll be harvested around Christmas.<br />
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I found less damage in my Chinese cabbages ,which used to be an easy target for young worms and aphids. I believe the romaine lettuces, which were planted as companion plants, are effective to ward off young worm. The yellow buckets are also effective, too I believe. Aphids hibernate inside of Chinese cabbages which is comfortable for them to keep warm and they suck cabbage extract there. That can cause poor growth. The yellow buckets can allure many aphids into the buckets and the insect screen physically shut them out.<br />
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It's fortunate that there are less damage by bugs but I'm not satisfied with the growth of my cabbages. They have beautifully shaped hearts but the size are smaller than I expect. I don't think they can grow any more so I'll harvest them in a few days.<br />
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-- iPhoneから送信takaekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02935915593745969292noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448137405669099510.post-40518378564227185122012-12-10T00:42:00.000+09:002012-12-10T00:42:39.959+09:00The Fruits Hunters. It's very regrettable that I've been absent from blogging for the last one month and a half since I was so busy in my business. Now I can managed to have spare time to blog so I hope many blogging friends will visit my blog again.<br />
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As the weather getting cold, around the end of November, my family visit my father in law living in Nara, the city famous as an ancient capital of Japan, for helping him with harvesting persimmon fruits and kiwi fruits. There are many persimmon trees in the backyard and kiwi trees in his garden. He can't harvest them since his right size is paralyzed due to a stroke. That's why we help him every year and we have another reason. My kids are excited with the Fruits Hunting.<br />
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When we saw the persimmon trees, we were shocked with less fruits on the trees than <a href="http://greenvege-osaka.blogspot.jp/2011/12/persimmon-hunting-with-my-family.html">in last year</a>. You can see easily how less the fruits is. But my kids were so helpful that they cooperated with us and my sister in law. You know why? Because they worked for "the sweet fruits of labor".<br />
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Persimmon fruits are located on high branches and twigs so a tool called "a long-handled lopper" (one of my blogging friends taught the English name.) is so convenient that we can harvest persimmon fruits efficiently. Even my daughter can prune and catch the fruits on the ground as the photo shown below.<br />
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The total amount of the persimmon fruits was less than 1/3 of last year's harvest. My father in law said there is some kind of cycle in the amount of fruits. We don't know what works on the cycle but temperature, weather, and precipitation might affect the cycle.<br /><center>
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We love sweet persimmon fruits and wild birds love them, too! They seem to be able to pick sweet ones instinctively!<br />
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After harvesting them, we peeled and serve them with hot green tea. The tea's bitter taste go well with the sweet fruits.<br />
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My recipe of sweet potato tarts is so easy that everyone can make them successfully!</div>
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1 sweet potato - 400 gr</div>
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2 sugar - 60 gr</div>
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3 fresh cream - 10 cc</div>
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4 milk - 10 cc</div>
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5 salt-free butter - 30 gr</div>
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5 vanilla essence - a few drops</div>
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6 a small spoonful of rum</div>
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7 a yellow of an egg</div>
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1 Slice sweet potatoes to 1cm thick.</div>
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2 Boil the sliced potatoes till they become so soft that you can skewer them easily. </div>
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3 Mash the potatoes thoroughly<br />
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4 Add salt-free butter, fresh cream, milk and sugar and mix them up thoroughly. After cooling down, you can add the yellow of an egg, vanilla essence and rum into potato and mix them up again.<br />
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5 Fill the mixture into molds with a pastry bag<br />
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7 Bake them in a toaster oven for about 7 minutes and serve them with tea!<br />
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After autumn rainy days, it was so fine today without any crowds in Osaka and was the best time to harvest my sweet potatoes, which planted about 4 months ago. My daughter was more cooperative in helping me harvest them than usual since she loves sweet potatoes and was looking forward to harvesting and tasting them for long time! Look at her digging out the potatoes with a shovel. She looks like a treasure hunter, doesn't she? </div>
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When she found "one of her treasures", she screamed "Yeaaaaah!!!, got it!!"<br />
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Eventually, we dug about 30 sweat potatoes and most of them were about 20 cm long or longer. This was the first time for me to grow sweet potatoes and I believe it was successful.<br />
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Actually, I planted 3 types of sweet potatoes, Beniazuma, Annou and Naruto-Kintoki. Can you distinguish them? Beniazuma has a little red peel so it's easy to see them but other ones look almost same. </div>
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After harvesting them, I dried them in shade to sweeten them. The process can vaporize water in the potatoes and we can enjoy sweeter potatoes in a few days.</div>
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As the temperature in Osaka goes down, many gardeners around me start sowing and planting autumn and winter vegetables. I was thinking when I should start autumn seeding this year while I was too busy even to write my blog. But I realized it is in the mid of October and I had to be hurry in seeding the vegetables. Today I and my daughter went to my gardening plot and sowed seeds of daikon radishes and planted 4 Chinese cabbages and 1 cabbage.</div>
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My daughter, who is my reliable helper, seems to be well-experienced enough to create a seeding grid in order to sow the seeds in right places without my help.</div>
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I usually sow 3 daikon seeds in a hole and will thin out to leave only the most prospective one.</div>
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Along with the daikon radishes, I planted 4 Chinese cabbages and 1 cabbage on my last planting ridge. My garden is now full of kinds of autumn-winter vegetables such as Chinese cabbages, cabbages, daikon radishes, pak-chois and gingers.</div>
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It's difficult for novice gardeners like me to pursuing 100% organic gardening but I believe pursuing 80%~90% organic gardening can be feasible with installing new methods to decrease usage of chemical things like pesticide.</div>
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I install 2 new methods, companion planting and yellow buckets.</div>
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I planted romaine lettuces beside Chinese cabbages for warding off young worms which like to eat Chinese cabbages. Romaine lettuces can fume odor which young worms hate so they can't get close to planting ridges where the lettuces are planted.</div>
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My 2nd method is placing yellow buckets beside my vegetables.</div>
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It took 1 week since I had installed them and I found them very effective to repel aphids!</div>
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As I mentioned on my previous blog, aphids can be allured by yellow color. And I found hundreds of aphids were drown in water in the yellow buckets and no aphids on my vegetables!</div>
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Both of the methods are reasonable and cheep to install so I would like you to try them.</div>
takaekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02935915593745969292noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448137405669099510.post-86835038264311542652012-09-09T18:18:00.001+09:002012-09-09T21:19:41.561+09:00Launching the Cabbage Project in 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> The temperature in Osaka is slowly but steadily going down after September began while it is still hot recording up to 32degrees C (90degrees F). In a morning and evening, the temperature become so cool that even young sprouts can bear with the hot daytime. It's the best time to launch my Cabbage Project of this autumn and winter season.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Today I went to a local sprout shop, bought sprouts of 5 cabbages, 5 Chinese cabbages(Hakusai-cabbages), and turnip seeds and planted all of them in my gardening plots.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> My daughter rushed into a vinyl green house where sprouts are growing to pick up healthy ones as soon as we arrived the shop. My rule for picking up healthy sprouts is "No hole and No discoloration on leaves". Holes on the leaves means some small bugs might live in a planting pod and the discoloration shows the sprouts might be not healthy. My daughter knows the rules and the first-come-first-sold basis in the shop. 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Great job, my daughter!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjChd03qYbXSjiEfLd4zF3_2Yu8AKV6h1a2wADgje6rh3Uw2DwmQfp1CRPW-JTQWjkCvwwXLoDkMP6LY4stu_wlAQSeyHI4gt8j2kUuPsLHlKsVCZbqvQrn4ikz6CHnqLpNS-dijQ1LVrc/s1600/SANY0446.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjChd03qYbXSjiEfLd4zF3_2Yu8AKV6h1a2wADgje6rh3Uw2DwmQfp1CRPW-JTQWjkCvwwXLoDkMP6LY4stu_wlAQSeyHI4gt8j2kUuPsLHlKsVCZbqvQrn4ikz6CHnqLpNS-dijQ1LVrc/s320/SANY0446.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> I planted all of the sprouts on my planting ridges, covered the ridges with rice husks, and set up insect screens.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaw7XpH0LIVXCys7h8ScpvhcZjaxebv7tYzA_OwzNI8yv-4KMVu01iAM-PvJFLGGHS1iRGb8FvwGo42vY46em-iSTSkeHctswV63PnApQS0mxUQrurqMkjkvQTHNxKn8GM5UvCsZLIBqY/s1600/SANY0447.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaw7XpH0LIVXCys7h8ScpvhcZjaxebv7tYzA_OwzNI8yv-4KMVu01iAM-PvJFLGGHS1iRGb8FvwGo42vY46em-iSTSkeHctswV63PnApQS0mxUQrurqMkjkvQTHNxKn8GM5UvCsZLIBqY/s320/SANY0447.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> I suffered from many aphids on cabbages last year so I tried a new measure for warding off aphids. A yellow plastic bucket is useful for capturing aphids which have a habit of preferring yellow color according to some gardening magazines.<br />They say that aphids can be allured by the yellow color, dive into the water of the bucket and drawn.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFrJnWgy93UYLiF2kp8-XHL5hOZD1DIquElyIkUFQPlRwSAHGmF7mmQNR8-RnomEVSjXd6pcUcbFtgICz63LG3rGYSiY9bvahe6t3zAy-KtHaZMwelhdlJ7UgWDslwRF16ompp-HqLhxM/s1600/SANY0448.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFrJnWgy93UYLiF2kp8-XHL5hOZD1DIquElyIkUFQPlRwSAHGmF7mmQNR8-RnomEVSjXd6pcUcbFtgICz63LG3rGYSiY9bvahe6t3zAy-KtHaZMwelhdlJ7UgWDslwRF16ompp-HqLhxM/s320/SANY0448.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> In a few minutes after installing the bucket, 3 aphids were found dead in the water! 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Ahhhh,,,,just hot, very hot and scorchingly hot! I had to cultivate my planting ridges and to add organic fertilizer and to set up "a Hot Stuff" for autumn and winter vegetables like cabbages. I'll tell you the hot stuff later but anyway, I had to harvest my eggplants and pull the trees out for securing space for next vegetables.</div>
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I was a little hesitated to pull them out since more and beautiful eggplants had seen recently and I assumed that it would be worth of growing them but I had to be dare to throw them away for my most favorite vegetable, a Chinese cabbage.<br />
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Cultivating the ridges and mixing the soil, fertilizer, oil cakes and leaf mold in that hot day was torturous. Many people were killed with heat stroke in this summer in Japan while they were working outside like gardens, and construction sites. I drank water so often for avoiding heat stroke and could managed to end the cultivation.<br />
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And here is "my Hot Stuff ", transparent multi-sheets. It's my first try but I learned the method from some gardening magazine. I know many gardeners suffer bugs like caterpillars, young worms of moths which can eat up our vegetables. The method is reportedly so effective to kill them. The temperature of the soil covered with the sheets can be too hot for those bugs to survive. It's more effective to cover the soil for about 1 month in the hot summer, not only for killing bugs but weed seeds, the magazine says. I've suffer many bugs on my cabbages and Hakusai cabbages every year so I hope the method can decrease damage caused by the bugs and usage of pesticides.<br />
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