Thursday, October 30, 2008

October Harvest 2

horenso

With no sign of a frost yet, the garden is still producing tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers, and the first of the winter carrots too.

Spinach, called horenso in Japanese is harvestable now too. Horen is Chinese for Persia, and so means plant, so the Japanese name means "Persian plant", Persia being the area it originated from before being introduced into Japan from China.

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retasu

Lettuce, retasu in Japanese, are also being picked. I planted 3 kinds with seeds from England. Lettuce was introduced into Japan from the U.S. after WWII.

2 comments:

  1. Je viens de regarder toute la série sur ton jardin et les recoltes..
    J'ai beaucoup aimé voir ces beaux fruits et les beaux légumes...
    C'est magnifique d'avoir un petit peu de terre pour récolter ces merveilles délicieuses et avec beaucoup de travail...Je vois que tu fais certaines conserves..Bravo Jake*****

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