tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22759191.post5212554903563762595..comments2014-04-27T09:36:59.797+09:00Comments on Matsuyama eco-home: First summer produceRodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04229724488178529402noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22759191.post-87433399650443051492008-06-22T08:35:00.000+09:002008-06-22T08:35:00.000+09:00Oh no, how awful! I fully sympathise.Actually I ha...Oh no, how awful! I fully sympathise.<BR/><BR/>Actually I had an 'avocado' experience the other day too. I was turning over my compost and found a number of big round seeds with luscious, exotic-looking leaves sprouting from them. Blimey, avocados at last!, I thought, and ran around the garden preparing compost holes to plant them in. Only after I had planted two in great excitement did I look carefully at the third one. Whereupon I found that they were sato imo which nobody in our family likes much. Much chastened, I went around the garden pulling them up again. I'm afraid there are many disappointments involved in growing avocados.<BR/><BR/>And in the spring, my friend in Suwa sent me some seeds from America. One was a red Hmong cucumber which I duly potted and left in the garden. It sprouted into a weird frond-like thing which I planted. I also made a bamboo frame for it to climb. But it wouldn't climb, nor flower, although it got quite big. Then I noticed similar plants coming up in other parts of the garden where I had not planted Hmong cucumbers. I was lavishing love and care on a common weed! My Hmong cucumber was a changeling!<BR/><BR/>Can we stomach another anecdote? <BR/>In my first allotment in the mountains of Idai, I planted broad beans (soramame). A few weeks later, I found lush green leaves poking out of the ground, and thought Ugh!, look at these gross mountain weeds and started pulling them up and throwing them into the valley. Then I noticed that they were in nice tidy rows. I noticed this after I had pulled up about five plants. Doh.<BR/><BR/>We ignorant people should stick to things we know about, like translation, and the dermis.Rodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04229724488178529402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22759191.post-37995871936341614592008-06-21T23:55:00.000+09:002008-06-21T23:55:00.000+09:00Hello, Mr.Rod !One morning, my wife was weeding he...Hello, Mr.Rod !<BR/>One morning, my wife was weeding her garden and happened to cut a small weed. Immediately after that, she felt uneasy and dug up about the weed, where she found the seed of an avocado which she bought to eat last year hoping it might bud next year. Oh, my God ! (or her God?) I felt like show how she was disappointed to see the mistake of herself then. In any way, we learnt that the seed of an avocado produced in Japan proved to be able to bud if it is lucky enough. Please see our Blog. http://miyauchihifuka.blogspot.com/<BR/> from inchoudonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com