Year 1 – December Week 1: Piling soil on leeks
Activities This week I piled soil around the leeks, seems this will produce a longer white shaft. Planted extra peas,...
Activities This week I piled soil around the leeks, seems this will produce a longer white shaft. Planted extra peas,...
It’s been a week since I prepared the rice bran compost and so far the temperature has risen up to...
Preparing Rice bran Compost This week, I tried making a compost using a simple mixture of rice bran, fermented soybeans,...
Planting onions Finally planted the onion seedlings this week. Seedlings are already old, yellowish in color. Not expecting all to...
This week we finally harvested all the sweet potatoes and peanuts. Sweet Potatoes and Peanuts Most of the Azuma sweet...
Updates This Week Brussel Sprout Brussel sprout is now starting to form and we had a greeny visitor! Romaine lettuce,...
Updates about cabbage, brussels, chinese cabbage plants and planting more leeks. Surprised how good this kale for salad, we decided...
October 1: Planting garlic Planted garlic together with strawberries today. It seems that these two grow well together. Peeling the...
After making ume syrup, I re-used the fruit to make an ume yeast water. Ingredients are simple; ume, water and...
Rainy season has started in Japan and that means it is also season for ume! We harvested some ume fruits...