Tomatoes are all in, 15 plants, starting to flower.
Tomato flower
Minitomatoes are also thriving. I think we have about 20 plants. It is interesting to see how different they all are. The golden currant are tall and gangly, the reisentraube are short and broad.
And the reisentraube have huge clusters of flowers. I hope this means lots of minitomatoes!
Zucchini is doing well and not being attacked so much by the dreadful orange beetles which seem to prefer pumpkin and cucumber.
Pumpkin closest the the yard is still intact.
Our baby mikan (clementine) tree flowered for the first time this year and seems to be producing baby mikan.
lettuce, lettuce, and more lettuce. Good thing my husband likes salad
Green beans and cucumbers. I am trying to get them to climb the netting rather than head for the south, which seems to be their natural inclination.
Narcissus blooms in January here in Gifu. They are so pretty and cheerful, I would love to have large patches of them like our neighbors. But I think it will be a few years. Here are ours:
The girls love kinkan (kumquat?). We dream of a big kinkan tree like this someday...
But at least we got our first few kinkans this year.
When we moved in 2 years ago we saw the mikan (clementine?) trees next door
And planted ours with high hopes, still not a mikan to be seen.
However, the neighbor beyond planted her mikan tree the following year and look!
Lucky duck!
