adekun’s japan blog

Enjoying the sights, sounds and smells of first-time parenthood. Progress on the vegetable garden and other ramblings of a gaijin in Japan’s least populous prefecture.

April 11, 2008

Crunch time

Filed under: garden, weather — adekun @ 2:39 pm

I’m probably going to regret not going hanami last Sunday. Since then, the weather has taken a turn for the worse. The last few days the rain has been heavy and I wonder if there will be any sakura blossom left on the trees. It’s good for the garden though. No amount of rain was going to turn around my carrot’s fortune. I think it’s apparent with everything else this year, being frugal with the organic stuff (through want of more) has stunted or slowed it. The cores of the carrots had turned woody. Yesterday, under a pale sky, in moderate drizzle, they got yanked out. The roots got their whiskers scraped off before going into the compost bin, whilst the tops got scattered on the ground. The most direct route to the thankfully good asparagus can perhaps be likened to that of a scene from Palm Sunday. As it got even wetter outside, I took the best specimen I saved and performed a simple vegetable autopsy. Running a knife around the circumference, down the front and back, and with a twist…
Carrot Physiology

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  1. Hi Adekun,
    Sorry about your carrots. I enjoyed catching up on your life happenings.

    Comment by Meg Wolff — April 14, 2008 @ 1:07 am

  2. Got a bit more catching up here to do Meg. I’ll do something about the garden soon.

    Comment by adekun — April 16, 2008 @ 8:59 am

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