Tag Archives: Rocket

Flowers at the potager in early spring of 2014…

The weather is warming up here in Japan… I finally managed to sow about twenty types of vegetable seeds last weekend ‘Regular’ stuff such as tomato, eggplant, chili, chard, peanut, long bean, soybean, bitter gourd, butter scotch pumpkin, corn, okra, … Continue reading

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Rocket flowers…

This is one vegetable that does not really concur with my taste buds… My missus likes it very much though… I am growing the rocket for her, so to say… And what does one do when the rocket bolts and … Continue reading

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Flowers… of plum, pear, rocket, peas

Glorious flowers from a neighbor’s plum (peach) tree protrudes into our potager…For me, this must be one of the prettiest plum (peach) blooms I have ever seen…Rich colors, perfectly (almost) shaped petals… On the other side of the fence comes our very … Continue reading

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Flowers to chew on…

This pic shows a salad mix prepared by my suweeto-haato…The usual stuff like peas, red turnips, onions, cucumbers…Plus, edible flowers like the blue borage, the red nasturtium, the sinewy, beige (?) rocket, the pink geranium… and the yellow chrysanthemum…All these … Continue reading

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