Japan Simple Life

Hi all. I'm hoping someone out there can point me towards the right vocabulary (or a website if you're feeling generous!) for the old water system my...

So today is the first day that day length is over 10 hours and we can expect to see increased plant growth from now on so with that in mind it is a...

Imagine you could have a plot of land in any prefecture in Japan. All other factors being equal, where would you choose and why?

Interesting article....and I wonder who is farming organically/no-till in JSL? Would love to visit some farms. Which would have probably made more...

Apart from being a baker, ex farmer and a few other things, I also grow mushrooms.

I know there was some talk a while ago about mushroom growing...

Does farming pay enough?

Note: Some of the posts at the beginning of this thread have been copied over from the What did you do today? thread to create a dedicated Vinyl...

Despite being a week away from December, home centers are still selling their winter veg seeds. Is there anything worth starting today? Can anything...

It's my first time planting onions. I picked up some seed starts (look like thin green onions) at my local home center and used a pre cut black...

I'm preparing a 900L raised bed as well as a 5mx2m tilled garden for next spring, so I need some big size supplies. Where do you get supplies like...

Tokita seeds are having an open day at their research facility in Saitama on November 14th & 15th if anyone is interested

Otone Research Farm...

We often see unknown animal foot prints around our land have been lucky enough to see various wild animals going about their business in the early...

Found an interesting site the other day that might help folk planning what to grow through the winter. The author (Pam) has been collecting data for...

Our kerosene flame weeder was behaving erratically over the last few days and I thought it might be the nozzle that was blocked so decided to give it...

So with summer receding into the distance and autumn getting going it's now time to get those veggies that will go through the winter in the ground....

So, it's time to start preparing for autumn and winter once again and start seeding the appropriate veggies. This week we seeded the first of the...

Or taming of the weeds

We are getting ready to start renovating an older house with land on the outskirts. First step is cutting weeds before the...

As summer is well underway the weeds seem to have taken over about every inch of bare soil they can find in our garden. Fortunately our present...

Leather hard, synthetic wear out so easy, and cotton... well, it is cheap.

What is your favorite work glove?
I have used cotton gun-te for years...

Hi all
Recently my small plot keeps getting tunneled overnight. The entry/exit holes are 3-5 cm wide, some of the tunnels seems to have entry/exit,...