'Tadaima' is a Japanese equivalent of 'I'm home!' I have returned from home-home to another home on the other side of the world, and before you worry for my loyalty/commitment to either, please look at this photo -
In a village filled with beautifully-kept vegetable gardens, mine is a veritable jungle. This year has seen an unprecedented amount of rain across central Japan, and everything that I planted during the spring has shot up in the weeks I've been away.
But search below and between the tangled vines and climbers (and these sunflowers, rendered horizontal by a typhoon but still reaching for the sun), and there are vegetables!
But search below and between the tangled vines and climbers (and these sunflowers, rendered horizontal by a typhoon but still reaching for the sun), and there are vegetables!
Sunflowers AND giant purple ladies fingers? It's left me speechless.
But it gets better - my wasps are also looking very healthy. I think it's a fairly safe bet to say that, one of the main reasons that after six weeks absence I'm able to enjoy such a harvest, is that the wasps have been busy eating all of the pest insects! So - thank you, wasps. It's good to be back.
But it gets better - my wasps are also looking very healthy. I think it's a fairly safe bet to say that, one of the main reasons that after six weeks absence I'm able to enjoy such a harvest, is that the wasps have been busy eating all of the pest insects! So - thank you, wasps. It's good to be back.
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