Harvesting Broccoli and Turnips

 

Finally, the above vegetables are harvested. The broccoli tasted as good as the turnips or daikon as it is known in Japan. 

Winter vegetables

 

The broccoli, cabbage and daikon are doing well even when we left them alone for the last 2 months. These are winter vegetables and needed minimum water and care. The cold winter is able to sustain them.

The bottom picture are vegetables from our garden except for the carrots and meat. They are pressured cooked and had it for dinner.

Our Japanese neighbors

Our Japanese neighbors who has a farm gave us plums, zucchini,cucumber and mint leaves.The best thing about the greens is, it is taken straight from the soil. They are fresh and full of vitaimins and goodness.
We hope we could learn from our neighbors and cultivate our land and grow some of these useful and nutritious vegetables and fruits.

After a hearty meal of kway chup which made us feel guilty (pig's intestine, stomach etc), we headed home and cooked some veggies to supplement our fibreless and vitaminless kway chup.
It's not often that we eat asparagus but I understand that it contains lots of vitamins and folate which could help lift our spirits. Therefore, asparagus is good for people who are depressed.
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