Missing my hawker food during Circuit Breaker

Growing watermelons in Japan

The watermelons although planted at around the same time, the growth or results differ from one fruit to another. The bottom one is the fastest growing melon with others still trying to play catch-up. We have planted them about 6 weeks ago. The time to harvest the biggest one is probably 3 weeks from today. Will post the result soon.

Karuizawa, Japan

Our Japanese friends who are living in Karuizawa, a mountain resort sent us the above pictures. Monkey is a common sight in this resort town of 20,000 people.
Karuizawa is a town in the Kitasaku district of eastern Nagano. With its cool climate, it is known as a place take refuge from the sweltering summer temperatures. In the winter, Karuizawa becomes a popular destination for skiing and other winter sports.

Growing Cherry Tomatoes

Growing Tomatoes in Japan 2020

Growing watermelons

It is exciting time for us as the watermelon plants are bearing fruits (above picture). It will take another 45 days before they grow bigger (about 4 to 5 kg) and ready to be eaten. Right now, we need to give lots of tender loving care to the plant. It should spread out on the ground and we have to water the plant at least twice a week. The plant also need plenty of sunlight, about 8 to 10 hours a day. Hopefully in a month or two, I will post the pictures of the ready to eat watermelons.

Onion is good for health

Now that we have harvested the onions, we are going to keep for a while. We will be consuming them as regularly as we can and the balance will be kept is an airy cool place. Onions can be kept for as long as 6 months and still fit for consumption.
Freshly harvested onions are juicy and tender. It is a precious commodity in India. When the price spike recently and beyond the means of the ordinary Indians, people demonstrated in the streets and called on the Indian government to bring down the price.
Onions are without a doubt good for health. Eating onions regularly can boost heart and digestive health. Onions also helps fight cancer and contain lots of antioxidants. There are many more health benefits which you may in the internet.

Giant onions in my backyard

Having my first meal at the newly assembled garden bench-table

Flip top bench table assembled