April 28, 2013

Buying Seedlings and Laying Mulch/苗を買って、マルチを張る

More like a personal memo.
個人的なメモのようなものです。
 
Today, I bought eleven tomato seedlings (10 varieties) at a home improvement center.
今日は、ホームセンターでトマトの苗を11本(10品種)買いました。
My plan is to grow suckers from these seedlings at home and transplant to my rented field. I hope my plan will succeed.
私の計画は、家でこれらの苗から脇芽(わきめ)を育てて、借りている畑に植えるということです。成功するといいのですが。

First, I planted the seedlings in plater boxes.
まずは、苗をプランターに植えました。

These are strawberry seedlings (20 of them in total) that I was given from a neighbor last year.
これは、去年、近所の人からもらったイチゴの苗です(全部で20本)。
Then, I walked to the field with the necessary equipment on my sholder. It's about a 8-minute walk.
それから、必要な装備を肩に担いで畑に歩いて行きました。およそ8分で着きます。
My rented field, before I laid mulch.
マルチを張る前の畑。
Equipment:
装備:
Three-pronged hoe, mulch, and a snow shovel (not a proper tool for making ridges).
三つ又の鍬、マルチ、雪かき用のショベル(畝を作るためのちゃんとした道具ではありません)。

It took me about one and a half hours to make four ridges and lay mulch on each ridge.
畝を4つ作り、それぞれにマルチを張るのに1時間半くらいかかりました。
I will buy some more seedlings, but it's still rather cold, so I don't think I'll plant them during Golden Week.
苗はもう少し買おうと思いますが、まだちょっと寒いので、ゴールデンウイークには植えないと思います。

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Have a nice Golden Week! Ah good luck your planting. Happy to read your blog. Keep blogging. I'm a foreign student in Japan and trying to learn japanese. Your blog would help me a lot I think. Thank you for blogging in pair languages.

Fräulein Trude said...

I am quite thankful I don't have a field to take care of enough with the digging(laugh). I bought 4 tomato plants too (2 egg shaped cherry t., yellow wild t. and black cherry t.) because husband was too lazy to grow some seedlings again. This years tomato harvest will be much smaller.

Hiroyuki said...

Anonymous: I hope you enjoy your stay in Japan!

Kiki: Yes, it's half fun and half pain growing vegetables in a traditional way. As I mentioned before, I once tried square foot gardenting (SFG), but it didn't turn out the way I had expected.

Yangsze said...

I put my tomato plants in a few weeks ago - this year, I'm growing a lot of cherry tomatoes because my small children like them so much and I can put them in their lunch boxes!

I'm growing Sungold (very sweet, yellow hybrid), Dr's Green (sweet green tomato), Snow White (white tomato) and Isis Candy (comes in different colours). What kind of tomatoes are you growing?

Hiroyuki said...

Yangsze: Your tomatoes sound very tasty! Sadly, I haven't heard of any of yours...

As for the varieties I bought, I will mention them in a future post!