カテゴリー: Niigata

Buds have come out of the ground. I planted many seeds of vegetables.

I have recently planted many seeds of vegetables. This post is a kind of the record.

The onion “Neo Earth” is a specie that can be kept for so many months after the harvest. But I planted their seeds onto a less-prepared space. Though I wanted at least 100 seedlings, it seemed I would not be able to get enough numbers of seedlings.

So I planted seeds of another onion by the side of carrot. This specie cannot be kept for so long as “Neo Earth”, but can be harvested a little earlier. Actually, I wanted to get seeds of an onion that could be harvested much earlier than “Neo Earth”. But it was a tiny flower shop where I tried buying another type onion. There were only two species of onions, and this one “Marie” is not-early, not-late, but a middle harvest type.

These are carrots. This one is to plant in the summer and to harvest in winter. I think now it’s the time to pull some of them to reduce the number of them.

This is a leafy vegetable. Since I planted the seeds too much densely, I will waste much of them. As they grow, I will pick some of them and put them into Miso-soup.

This is Daikon. I planted four or five seeds at one place. And this morning I reduced the number of buds to make them three in one place.

They are Daikon whose core become red. It seems that they were also planted densely too much. Actually, they were seeds of last year. I thought that the germination percentage should have downed so that it would be better to plant more, and I wanted to plant all the seeds in order not for them to remain for the next year.

It reads on top yellow part with red characters, “Otameshi Pakku” that means “small portion for trial”. So, of course it was reasonable price but I felt that the number of seeds was not enough.

I don’t feel I have enough energy to write a post for Japanese learning tonight.

Many Leaves were Eaten by Worms on Plum Tree “Hollywood”

The tree was “Hollywood” which I planted for pollification to the plum “Soldam”. I don’t expect much about Hollywood to have fruits, but to have flowers so that Soldam would be able to have fruits. One thing that is impressive about Hollywood is its color of leaves. It’s dark purple. I planted that tree in the entrance of my field.

But today in the morning, I found that a lot of worms were eating the leaves. Everyday I walk through by the tree. But it is wondering I haven’t noticed until the situation has gone that worse.

I picked them one by one with disposable chop sticks, and put them into a grass bottle of “Ne##afe”. And then I poured pesticide into the bottle and put the lid. They were moving, but some minutes later, – – – – – – – – –

View from a Tall Building in Niigata City

Niigata West Port is located in the river mouth of Shinano River. There is a big ferry boat for Hokkaido.

That tall building also has an observatory on upper floor.

And the building with curved shape is owned by the local newspaper, which also has an observatory.

You can see Shinano River and Toyano Ragoon.

I wouldn’t like to live in a high place like that, although I don’t have money to buy an apartment in such a mansion.

Oh, please don’t hit each other!

Okay, I was relieved.

I Found Worms on Persimmon Tree Again

But this time, the numbers were many, probably there were more than several hundreds of worms on my persimmon tree “Koyo”.

Last time I was stung by them, so I think I have been avoiding getting closer to the tree. But I should have been watching the tree carefully. If I have I found them earlier, the tree would have got less damage.

I cut many leaves and branches. It might be better to use pesticides.

Hot and Humid, resulted in Worms in Stock of Rice.

It’s not just one but many. Some worms make rice grains stick to their body, and hide themselves in the rice grains. It looks like a ball of rice grains of One centimeter diameter.

I should have kept rice in refrigerator before the temperature rose.

Got Stung on the Scalp by an “Iraga” Moth Larva.

Several days ago, I felt sting like aching on my head skin when I was walking under the persimmon tree. Then I found them on the back side of persimmon leaves.

I tried to find the leaves with larva as much. When I found, I cut the branch and threw them into the compost in which pesticide is poured into. Basically, the persimmon is a tree that is not affected much by pests and diseases. So, I didn’t expect such nuisance creatures were there. I don’t use pesticides for my vegetable, but occasionally use it for fruit trees. I haven’t used pesticide so far this year. Probably hand picking is the best way for an amateur like me. Anyway, I felt a numbness around my mouth and in my fingertips in the next morning, though I was not sure if the poison of “Iraga” moth larva was such strong or not.

When it comes to Tomato, it is only for fresh consumption in Japan. Tomato on the shelves of a supermarket and tomato seeds being sold in a “home center” are both tomatoes to be eaten fresh. You can’t find tomato for cooking. This year I got some seeds of tomato for cooking by mailing order. I made 30 seedlings and planted on my field. And then now it’s the time of harvest, I have got quite a lot of them. I boiled them and put them in freezer. I think I will have a lot of tomato soup in coming autumn rather than Miso-soup.