The planting of the kind of the okra

Thursday, June 25, 2009
　For the rainy season, a rainy day continued, but became the heat of the midsummer yesterday the day before yesterday.
　I worked as some threshing in the garden last night at past 19:00 for half past 18. I implanted root 10 several of the leaf leek in a flowerpot. I implanted the kind of the okra in the compost which was in the bag. I gathered the leaf of the dandelion and the leaf of the daisy fleabane, and I fried them with other vegetables and ate for the yesterday's supper. While I was tormented consistently by an onslaught of Asian Tiger Mosquito, I carried out the activity.
　During the yesterday's morning, I boiled a fig leaf and the leaf of the persimmon which I dried to bring out the flavor and made tea.

I ate with the wild grass of the garden and the young leave of the garden tree as an ingredient of the soba.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009
　Saturday of May 9, 2009 of last week. I gathered the leaf of the Erigeron philadelphicus and the leaf of the hawk's-beard in the daytime in a garden. I made these leaves and the young leave of the persimmon which I gathered before the ingredient of the scalloped noodles soba with other vegetables, and I ate at night.
　Sunday of May 10, 2009 of the day before yesterday. I pruned the rose of sharon (a white flower blooms) in the western corner of the garden in the daytime. I gathered a young leave from this pruning branch at night. In addition, I pruned the chrysanthemum which grew in front of a gravel path and gathered the young leave in the daytime. I made these leaves an ingredient of the scalloped noodles soba with other vegetables and ate at night.
　I fried the leaf of the Erigeron philadelphicus, the leaf of the everlasting flower, the leaf of the hawk's-beard and a stinking noxious weed which I gathered in a garden yesterday and today with the vegetables such as other eggplants or the Grifola frondosa. I ate it in the night of today.

The pruning of the silverberry, the collection of a stinking noxious weed, a spiderwort and the leaf of the onion.

Sunday, May 17, 2009
　I held a stepladder for the room out and pruned the silverberry. The fragrant olive and the silverberry should have pruned it at the beginning of March from February. However, I was not made cold in it.
　I want to transplant the tree of a kumquat planted under silverberry in the sunny place. But it is already late this year.
　A lot of flowers bloomed to the branch of the silverberry this year in spring. However, the fruit did not arrive. The silverberry does not gain fruit very much unless I scatter gibberellin.
　I gathered a stinking noxious weed and a spiderwort from the shrubbery of the garden in the afternoon. I fried it with the other vegetables such as an eggplant or the burdock and ate.
　I gathered the leaf of the onion which I cultivated under the window of the bathroom at the daytime of last Tuesday. I tore it off finely and I mixed it with fermented soybeans and ate.

I sow the seed of Perilla frutescens (Red Shiso) and the molokheiya.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

I did threshing in the garden before 19:00 from 18:00 after the afternoon sun fell.
Around loquat in the corner of the northwest side of the home site, I sprinkled fowl droppings.
I did increase soil on the onion which I cultivated with a bag under the window of the bathroom.
I did increase soil on the planter put in front of a gravel path and sowed the seed of the molokheiya in there.
I sowed the seed of the Perilla frutescens (Red Shiso) in outside circumference of the shrubbery of the garden and the passage side outside the home gate.
the seed of the Perilla frutescens (Red Shiso) and the molokheiya is that I purchased the day before in the 100 yen shop of the station square.
A white flower of Yeddo hawthorn (Rhaphiolepis umbellata var. integerrima) in front of the home gateway for a host (The doorway which was established in the kitchen) has begun to bloom today.

I ate the young leave of the persimmon

I ate the young leave of the persimmon
Friday, April 24, 2009

　At past 18:00, I pruned the persimmon (japanese persimon, kaki, Diospyros kaki Thunb) outside the window of the home bathroom yesterday. A lot of verdure grew to the branch of the persimmon.

　I cut the young leave of the persimmon out of a pruning branch by hand. I intended to fried and eat the young leave of the persimmon. There were around 100 pieces young leaves of the persimmon and gathered around 20 pieces of those. I soaked the remainder in the water of the bucket in front of the entrance.

　I gathered the leaf of the Erigeron philadelphicus and the leaf of the hawk's-beard around 20 pieces more in front of a gateway for a host.

　I want to go to pick up a rape, but cannot be busy with correspondence to the Ogawa's riot.

　But I can gather me so as not to be able to eat wild grass growing in the home garden.

　I fried them all and ate last night. It is the first time that I ate the leaf of the persimmon. I am bitter. But it is not bad.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Monday, April 20, 2009

　Now, 19:5.
　I put the leaf of Dokudami, the leaf of the Philadelphia fleabane and a leaf of carrot in vegetable soup and ate last night. The thing which I gathered at home both. It is the first time that I ate the leaf of the Philadelphia fleabane. It is the first time that I gathered the leaf of the Dokudami this year.
　In today's day, I gathered the leaf of the the onitabirako (Asiatic hawksbeard／oriental false hawksbeard, Youngia japonica ) which grew wild right in front of home entrance door approximately several pieces. In the evening, I gathered the leaf of the beefsteak geranium in the home north side. I will make these salad later and intend to eat.
　I drew off in a porch the Field Horsetail (Common Horsetail) which I gathered under the Toho bridge of the Ichino river yesterday. I gathered only a field horsetail in the place yesterday. A lot of Common Groundsels grew, too. But I did not feel like eating it.

　I noticed that some fruit were assigned to the fig and began to grow it last night. I have not heard that fruit of a fig swelled out in the middle of April.

It withers in winter and blooms in winter.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

　Today, it was clouded dimly in the morning, and it has begun to rain in the afternoon. Rain becomes strong since it is night.
　I removed the branch of the chrysanthemum which a flower finished blooming in the west of the house, and died surgically in the morning. In addition, I gathered approximately 10 leaves of the onion which grew in the west of the house. I intend to use this for cooking as a substitute for leek.
　A flower did not bloom to a branch of the loquat which grew wild in the west of a garden this year either. I expected it whether a flower bloomed to a branch of loquat this year.
　A leaf of a fig in front of a gravel path dies entirely and fell, but top neighborhood of a tree is accompanied by three fruit.
　In front of the entrance, the flower of the winter camellia and the flower of the araliad bloom. The red fruit of the spearflower is same at the side of the wall made of blocks in front of the entrance. A lot of red fruits stick to the tree of the pyracantha in front of the gravel path.
　All the leaves of the plum which I planted beside the gate in this spring fall and wither in winter. All the leaves of a pomegranate of a garden fall, too and wither in winter.
　Most of fruit of dark blue round shape of Rhaphiolepis umbellata (or Rhaphiolepis) in the east of a garden are already eaten by a bird.
　I want to plant Satsuma potato and ginger in the west of the house next year. The reason is because it eats a stem and a leaf. I seem to be considerably nutritious.

A chrysanthemum, a perilla

Tuesday, October 28, 2008
A chrysanthemum, a perilla
　Wednesday of October 22, 2008. A chrysanthemum put on the black pot put in the western corner of the garden was about to die. I neglected water selling. Because there were many recently rainy days, I was careless. In this time, air is easy to dry very much, and the soil of the bowl dries in a few days.
　The part of a chrysanthemum growing in the west of the bathroom has already bloomed today. I noticed it blooming around 2 days ago. It is very early.
　A beefsteak plant and the Perilla frutescens already die and have seeds. I gather seeds and want to make dissemination, but it is not possible for a driving school commute.

A mantis and fruit of "Rhaphiolepis umbellata var. integerrima"

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

On a wall made of blocks in front of the home entrance, there was a big mantis. Because it came to be cold a little in morning and evening, I thought that the mantis already died.

The fruit of black round shape sticks to "Rhaphiolepis umbellata var. integerrima" of the garden. Unfortunately we human being cannot eat this fruit and cannot use it as wine and Chinese medicine. A bird will eat.

I made the tea of the fig leaf .

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

　I made tea with a fig leaf in the morning. I washed a dried fig leaf with the sun and I put it in a kettle and boiled it to bring out the flavor and made tea. Dark brown tea was completed. I poured completed tea into the PET bottle with Jogo.
　You can remove the small fragment of the leaf when you filter it with a coffee filter. However, I did not make it troublesome.
　Because a fig tree is a deciduous tree, I cannot gather a leaf in winter. I want to gather it again next year.
　In the tea of the fig leaf, it is said to be effective in the hypertensive prevention.

The pruning of the persimmon and the laurel

Sunday, October 5, 2008
　In the afternoon of the day before yesterday, I pruned two branches of a low position of the persimmon beside the window of the bathroom. As for the pruning of the persimmon, this is the first time. On yesterday's Saturday, I gather a leaf from the pruning branch and dry it now in a room of the second floor. I intend to drink with the leaf of the persimmon as tea.
　In addition, on Friday of the day before yesterday, I pruned two branches of the place where the laurel was low in. I dry this leaf in a room of the second floor.

I gather the collection of the fig leaf, the flower of the fragrant olive on Friday, October 17, 2008.

Friday, October 17, 2008
　I cut the fig leaf with the trim scissors and gathered it this morning. The fig gains three fruit in the high place, but, in the low place, a leaf begins to die. I wanted to gather it before a fig leaf shed the leaves. I gathered a fig leaf of ten pieces of numbers in a mass. This thinks me it to be gathered the last fig leaf this year.
　In the daytime of yesterday and today's morning, I gathered the flower of the fragrant olive. Only some quantity that I was able to gather. It was approximately 1 week late that I gathered. I went to the driving school every day from last Monday to yesterday. The flower of the fragrant olive turned red and yellow in orange in the time, but I failed to gather it.
　Because there was not a stepladder in my house, the collection of the flower of the fragrant olive was difficult. I stretched myself and dropped the flower which stuck to a branch and dropped it on paper. There is a little quantity of the flower which my hand can gather in an arriving range, and it is impossible if there is not a stepladder.
　I intended to make wine when I can gather a lot of flowers of the fragrant olive, but decide I can enter the tea, and to drink it because I was able to gather only the few.

Wax tree fruits, Soaking of Docdami

Wednesday, October 1, 2008
　The flower blooms in the wax tree in front of the gravel road in my house for the first time in early summer, and the fruit is borne this year.
　The wax tree fruits are dried and it is said that the nutritional fortification is effective when eating. Moreover, the wax tree fruits can be used also for the fruit wine. I want to be going to prune the wax tree one of these days, and to make tea from the leaf.
　I gathered Docdami in the garden planting, made to soaking, and ate on the morning of Thursday of last week.
　Moreover, I prune two branches of the laurel, and am drying it in the room of the second floor on the same day. Because the day of rain continues recently, I cannot put this out.

The potted plant of the fig

Sunday, September 14, 2008 broadcast
The potted plant of the fig
The NHK educational television (three channels) "gardening of the hobby" (from half past 8 a.m. to 8:55).

Thinning out:
Reduce a fruit to around a one-third.

How to make:
The property that a bud has equally even if I prepare it aside. It is prepared planarly when I use this even if there is not depth.
The growth of the root is excellent. I set it into a slightly bigger bowl.
It cuts a leaf so that a day is the fruit.
I fully give water in the summertime.
Manure： Among nitrogen, phosphoric acid, potassium, manure including a lot of potassium is good. I sprinkle organic lime on the surface soil. The fruit of the fig includes a lot of calcium. It is necessary to supplement calcium by just that much. The weed is hard to come to grow by sprinkling it on the surface soil and becomes the dry prevention.

　Proper time of the pruning:
Because the sprout of the fig begins to appear from after the middle of April, by the middle of February, I prune it from the cause of a lengthening branch at around two or three sections.
Because gnarl goes bad when it cuts it at a limit, assuming it dies, and being crowded, I have it longer a little on a knob and cut it. Leaving the bud of 2 or 3 of the branch, it cuts it. Repeat this pruning every year.

A fig and Stauntonia hexaphylla

Thursday, September 11, 2008
　The morning of Monday of September 8, 2008 of this week. When I gathered a perilla in a garden, a lot of black small measuring worms stuck to the new leaf of the vine of a certain Stauntonia hexaphylla including a fence. This insect was around 1 centimeter. I watched this insect for the first time.
　Tuesday of September 9, 2008 of the day before yesterday. When I watched the vine of Stauntonia hexaphylla in the morning, black insects increased. The insect became the size of double suddenly, besides, in only one day. I scattered a medicine for gardening. Because the black measuring worm was heavy, and bows gained it, I picked up a dead twig and connecting was and dropped an insect below.
　I fought back to the surprise attack of the stripe mosquito to remain at the same time with insecticide spray, and spray was neutralized by a burr, a strong wind, and it was forced to painful work.
It is cool in the morning today. I wear the shirt of long sleeves, but it is a bit cold and feels it. The purple rose of sharon lets some flowers still bloom. The white rose of sharon of the western corner of the garden still lets some flower bloom every day.
　As for the cutting of the fig of the garden, only one of them succeeded after all. A leaf grows big it every day. I am surprised at the speed of the growth and am troubled a little. Because the growth of the cutting of the fig is early, it is necessary to transplant it in the next year.
I make the leaf which pruned a fig tea. Therefore I am glad that a fig grows steadily. But my homesite does not have the space that I can transplant because it is extremely small. I want to look for another land which can transplant it in next spring.
　I have it on tea, and the fig can eat a leaf again. Therefore I increase the cuttings of the fig and want to grow it.
　Rather, about the fruit of the fig, I decided not to expect me very much. It is good to bear fruit, but I am accompanied by an ant and a gray insect of the beetle department a lot, and it is eaten by an insect before becoming ripe. In fact, it is aimed to a bird. Still I do not want to do the medicine scatter.
　On the other hand, the leaf of the fig is strong, and growing power of a tree is strong. There are few parts eaten by an insect. Because I like the tea of the fig leaf, I am satisfied enough if I can gather a leaf. In addition, I can eat the leaf of the fig. Therefore I want to increase figs.