Flowers and fruits of my summer vegetables

Seeing flowers and fruits of summer vegetables is enjoyable and exciting for all gardeners in Japan during a rainy season, I believe. In my garden many flowers and fruits are found and they can alleviate my fatigue during working in a rainy day.




My cucumbers are blooming and they stretch their vines and wind them around plastic poles. The fruits of cucumbers, tomatoes and eggplants are also growing.






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Black chili's flowers and fruits

Since my last blog on my black chili, much flowers of my black chili are blooming. All of the black chili's trees also have became taller so the growth gives me a hope for good harvest of the black chili.


The flowers are small but so cute and attractive that My kids are also very curious about the flowers.


I found one more thing beautiful and exciting today! One black chili's fruit was found in a tree of the chili! I expect that it will take a few weeks to see mature fruits and harvest them. The black chili is a indigenous type, which was produced and grown in the limited areas in Nara prefecture for long time, so I wondered if mine could grow in my garden.



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Funguses in my garden

It took about 2weeks since a rainy season had started. As I expected, less sunny days but humid days has continued. Rain water in this season is essential for healthy growth of my vegetables but other things in my garden also seem to need it.

Some funguses have been germinated on s planting bed for my potatoes. My kids found them first and told me that today. I have less knowledge of funguses and couldn't identify them so I told my kids not to pick them up and eat them since they can be poisonous.



I would like my blogging friends to help me identifying them. My kids are also very interested in the funguses. If they are poisonous, I'll have to pull them out of my garden for safety.



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Digging out potatoes for test

 How can we see when we should harvest potatoes? I've been wondering when I should but today I found some leaves of potatoes have turned into yellow and fallen on to the ground, which is a sign for harvesting potatoes many gardeners say. So I dug out some potatoes for a test and see if I can harvest or not. 
 Before digging out, I thought it was still early to harvest them but my assumption has changed into my hope! I dug the smallest potato sprout but 5 or 6 middle size potatoes were found in the soil!! A half of all leaves of my bigger potatoes are yellowish so in a few days I can harvest most of my potatoes!
 The point I worry is the size of potatoes. The early start of a rainy season might shorten the time for potatoes to getting ripe.


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A sunny day in rainy season

 According to weather reports, Japan's rainy season (梅雨/Tsuyu) has already started and the start is about 10 days earlier than usual. I don't know that means the rainy season will last for longer or will end earlier than usual. Anyway, optimum precipitation in the rainy season is must for healthy growth of my vegetables while I feel it dull to spend long rainy season with less sunny days. 
 Today' weather in Osaka is very fine and sunny so I can't miss this opportunity to work in my garden for long time because a sunny day like today is so rare in the rainy season.
 While working in my garden, I found growth and flowers of my vegetables. Those can alleviate my fatigue.

A flower of cucumber

Some cucumbers are getting ripe and long.

Eggplants also have small fruits.

My pea's growth is amazing with long winding vines. 

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Flowers of black chili

 I know some of my blogging friends are interested in the growth of my black chilies and they are waiting for my update on the vegetable. Today I would like to show you a good news of the black chili. 

 I found today some flowers of my black chili are blooming and many buds also are growing well and will bloom in a few days. I saw the flower for the first time and I feel it curious to see the flowers. They are small but have five beautifully violet petals which are associated with the color of black chili's fruits. The violet petals are so interesting and attractive because usual red chili's flower has white petals.


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Powerful typhoon approaching to our place

A powerful typhoon is coming to our place with causing flood, closure of traffics and power outage in affected area in the Southeastern Asia and the Okinawa according to weather reports.

The typhoon is coming along with a persistent seasonal rain system which you can see easily both of them in the weather map shown below. 

I'll try to take actions tomorrow for protection of my vegetable against strong wind and rain caused by the typhoon.....