Year 2 – June Week 2: Harvests
Harvest season for strawberry and mulberry already ended. Next fruit harvest would be blackberries and hopefully some blueberries, too. From...
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Year 2 – May Week 2: Hilling potato plants
This week we hilled up the potato plants for the second time. This will be the last time and we’ll...
Year 2 – February Week 4: Sowing Seed Potatoes
Sowed some of the seed potatoes this week. We bought 4 varieties in total but so far only the Toya...
Year 2 – February Week 2: Planting myouga
This week I planted myouga (Japanese ginger?) that Mr. Wada bought from Konan home center, together with another asparagus roots....
Year 2 – February Week 1: Instant Greenhouse
In continuation from last week’s DIY seedling rack making, this week we transformed it into an instant greenhouse. We can’t...
Year 2 – January Week 5: Seedling rack
Spring is just around the corner and soon, we have to prepare lots of seedlings for summer veggies. And so,...
Year 2 – January Week 2: Hunting discounted strawberry seedlings
Planted extra strawberry seedlings this week. These are all leftover from home center, being sold 75% off from its regular...
Year 1 – December Week 4: Rapeseed flowers
This week’s main activity was planting fruit trees. We ordered some tree seedlings last November and finally arrived this week....
Year 1 – December Week 3: Broad beans
Activities Finally had time to prune our persimmon tree this week. It’s still unfinished but I’m relieved from any possible...
Year 1 – December Week 2: Chinese cabbage
Activities This week I transferred the remaining red onion seedlings to the bed, finally. Also planted more crimson clover and...