Germination in early spring

I found some of my spinaches and pak-chois, which were seeded about 2 weeks ago, have germinated at last! They are so tiny that I had to get closer to the surface of planting beds to find them but it's expected more sprouts of them are going to come up out of the soil.
Young sprouts might give us hope for good harvests but especially germination in early spring can give not only excitement but uplift feeling.





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Deep purple

The color of the cabbage shown below is so beautiful that it reminds me of my favorite band.
I found beautiful purple cabbages in other gardner's plot and I asked him where he got the sprouts. The purple color can be generated with anthocyanin inside the leaves while I don't know the detail mechanism.
Now I'm wondering how beautiful and colorful salad will be when the cabbage is added with listening my favorite song of the band, "Smoke on the water"


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Hidden growth

Even in the middle of cold winter, 100 onions look so healthy judging from their brisk, sharp and greenish leaves. Dry air in the winter can vaporize water easily out of soil so I regularly water once or twice a week.


Most of onions hide in soil but even tiny part of them which can be seen on soil can let me expect prospective harvest.


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Waiting for warm days

It took a week since komatunas, spinaches and pak chois but no germination has not been found yet.
That could be expected due to record cold winter but I can not help feeling anxious about delayed germination.
The vinyl tunnels can keep the air inside warmer than outside and it will start to be warm at the weekend according to weather forecast. All I have to do is to wait patiently for "hopeful moment".


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Sign of spring

 When I went to the daycare to pick up my daughter I found Japanese plum were blooming with fuming its sweet fragrance. Although it is cold in Osaka, the flower reminds me of spring coming to us slowly but steadily.

Today's harvest

 Today I've harvested all of Chinese cabbages and I feel so satisfied with successfully growing Chinese cabbages starting at last September.

 Raising Chinese cabbage required a lot of workload and chores such as setting up insect screen

and picking up bugs. But thanks to those chores I could deserve a good harvest and my family could enjoy delicious dishes.

 My family are looking forward to raising Chinese cabbages.

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Early bird getting worms

 Wild birds are sensitive to search for their foods in the mid winter.
 Whenever I cultivate soil wild birds fly to my garden since they know small worms are dug up to the surface with cultivating. A bird shown below were so cautious but when I pretended to ignore it the bird landed on the cultivated soil and starting picking worms up.










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