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Japanese Garden
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Diary of an amateur gardener growing various vegetables, fruits and flowers in his garden in Japan.
- Author: Gururaj Rao
- Listed in: Gardening
- Tags: flowers amateur vegetables patch gardener square foot
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Winter update and further experiments with seeds
Readers might be wondering what has happened to my veggie patch – the last few posts I have focused on hikes and seed experimentation. My small veggie patch is doing as well as it can with the limited sunlight it gets. Here’s what it looks like: ...
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New Year Hike
My next hike with friends was to Takagoyama on a glorious day bathed in sunlight. At several vantage points, we had a fine view of Mount Fuji. This is surprising because Mount Fuji is more than 100 km (60 miles) as the crow files from the hike locati...
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Experimenting with seeds
December has been a month of experimentation. It was time to plant all the seeds that I had collected during fall in India and Japan. I carefully selected two to three of various fruits and flower seeds that assiduously collected and arranged them in...
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Japanese maples and red berries
Last Saturday I went for my first hike with a group of hikers to a nearby hills and forest called the “Momiji Road” (Maple Road). Although we were late by about two weeks in witnessing the splash of autumn colors, I did find the remnants of autum...
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Lotuses and orchids
This post is a “filler” to publish photos of some great flowers that I saw at the Botanical Park called Banana Vani-en in Izu Peninsula, Japan, and share them with you. The Botanical Park hosted some wonderful specimens of tropical plants. I was ...
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my winter garden
My visit to India for two months from August to October threw awry the plans for planting seeds for autumn and winter. This year’s offerings are a little unplanned, but sometimes such plans turn out to be just wonderful. Christmas cactus t...
