Category: Our Garden

Hot and itchy: it’s our yard

I must do something about our yard! I had been thinking that for a long time, but I didn’t do much.
Even so I tried to clean it and pulled out a young tree that had sprouted not long before: it could have been a big tree in the future if I had left it.
The inside of an acorn was still attached, like it wanted to say, ‘I sprouted from here!’
It may be a common and natural figure, but anyway I took a photograph of it.

Our yard doesn’t have many flowers now, and trees and plants that are favourites of the mosquitoes grew wildly.
But some Passiflora bloomed.

We don’t have any special events now, so I took photographs of herbs and other plants I sowed the other day.

I know which is the nasturtium and which the ruchetta, but I’m still not sure which is basil or shiso (green perilla). (I have only a little knowledge about plants.) First of all, was it right to sow them now!?
Anyway, I will know when I see the next leaves!
At any rate, I will have to thin them out, won’t I?

We bought a goya plant which has become like this now.

We hope it makes bigger goya than the previous small ones we grew from seeds (especially the seeds taken from supermarket goya before I cooked it)!
But we better not have too much hope. Because it is our yard.

– YS, 3 July 2008

3 July 2008