This is the second okra plant I have spotted along the small street leading from my apartment to the JR station. I was impressed with how b.... 23 Sep 12:10 am
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Today’s mild typhoon is a welcome relief after more than six weeks of record-breaking heat and absolutely no rain in central Tokyo. I was.... 8 Sep 1:13 pm
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I took this photo a month ago, and our balcony garden is now even more lush. It’s amazing how much incredible heat and daily watering can.... 29 Aug 2:15 pm
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The watermelon vine has been leafing out like crazy all summer, but only this morning did I notice five tiny watermelons growing on the bal.... 19 Aug 10:04 am
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These are two views of my balcony green curtain. I purposely trained the Okinawa morning glory to create a grid pattern on top of the strin.... 16 Aug 11:15 am
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I first saw these vines a month ago on a nearby sidewalk. They are growing in plastic buckets with an elaborate plastic twine trellis suppo.... 14 Aug 10:45 am
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I have experimented with all sorts of summer vegetables and fruit this year. The cucumbers grow incredibly fast (maybe 2 weeks from tiny sh.... 6 Aug 3:56 pm
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I have been passing this pot of okra for a weeks as I walk to the station. It’s great that this small pot is at eye level. A few days aft.... 4 Aug 10:20 am
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Seeing rice grown in buckets and styrofoam boxes always amazes me: focusing the national obsession with the main staple into a city scale. .... 3 Aug 5:02 pm
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A Sendagaya gardener is growing bitter melon on a mesh net for summer. You can see the prickly green vegetables (tastes great with ground p.... 1 Aug 9:05 am
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I wonder what this sidewalk rice tastes like? Will the gardener make a special meal with it? It’s great to see how enthusiastic people ar.... 27 Jul 9:04 am
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In San Francisco, my garden is shaded and the cold summer makes growing vegetables very difficult. It’s been fun this summer to grow a va.... 25 Jul 3:21 pm
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3331 Arts Chiyoda is a cool art space recently created by the Chiyoda ward government. They converted an old junior high school into exhibi.... 24 Jul 4:20 pm
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Walking down a large boulevard in Higashi Koenji, I was surprised to see these potted vegetables on the sidewalk. In addition to ginko tree.... 15 Jul 2:26 pm
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My watermelon plant has produced an enormous amount of growth in just two months on the balcony. It was very easy to train the vines onto t.... 11 Jul 12:22 pm
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This raspberry bush, supported by plastic poles and rope, remind me of my friend Chris Berthelsen’s amazing Fixes blog. It has all the cl.... 27 Jun 11:01 am
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Several neighboring houses have grape vines that are old and productive. I saw this green-tinged grape trellis on my way to the sento one n.... 17 Jun 10:05 pm
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Photo taken on May 20.
At a celebratory dinner recently, we were served a tiny cucumber about this size with its flower still fresh. This l.... 6 Jun 9:08 am
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I recently started a blog category called “Flowers and Buildings,” which focuses on the pleasure of experiencing plants in urban settin.... 5 Jun 9:20 am
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This year I am experimenting with many types of vegetables and fruit in my balcony garden: kiwi, eggplant, watermelon, cucumber, bitter mel.... 4 Jun 9:14 am
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On the trip to Nasu in Tochigi two weekends ago, we visited a unique mountain cow dairy called Shinrin no bokujo (森林の牧場) that pr.... 29 May 1:50 pm
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It’s always an adventure to get out of Tokyo and see rural Japan. Recently, TEDxSeeds executive producer Ito Hiromasa (伊藤 弘雅) in.... 25 May 12:46 pm
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Great New York Times story about benefits of corporate gardens, including Pepsi-Co and Aveda. Improves worker morale, eating, health, and in.... 16 May 9:04 am
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Some friends and I visited Pasona’s new office last week. They are a large Japanese staffing farm that had a highly publicized basement f.... 7 May 10:05 am
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These takenoko, or bamboo sprouts, surprised me by their giant size. Takenoko is a spring seasonal vegetable, but I wonder what you would d.... 5 May 9:05 am
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Manga farming is a hilarious project that recycles old manga for radish sprout farming. This was set up by Koshi Kawachi. This was installe.... 29 Apr 9:05 am
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Asia! online magazine published my article about miso-making at my relatives’ Shiho ceramic studio in Tokyo.
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San Francisco’s Sanchez Elementary School has created a vertical garden that is edible and off the grid. Solar panels and windmills p.... 4 Apr 9:05 am
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My father in law received a kit to grow rice, complete with detailed instructions in this attractive bag.
Anyone who lives in Japan knows D.... 2 Apr 9:02 am
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I have a soft spot for weeds, and this dandelion I saw found a home in a sidewalk crack in busy Yotsuya. I admire the ability of weeds to p.... 22 Mar 12:20 am
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