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just pulled yesterday afternoon, 300ml cup for scale.

I love colorful things like Babar the Elephant, so I stood there looking at them for quite a while.

How many did I buy?
I’ll leave that to your imagination.

Okay Google said this was likely Japanese ginger/myoga - This has popped up next to my veg patch, I’m not familiar with it at all but if nothing else it’s very pretty sneaking out from the dead grasses. Anything I need to do to maintain it and or what do you do to harvest it?

Communal chilli sauce?

I'm just idling on an idea to make a chilli sauce with produce from this community.

Every year I grow hundreds of extremely spicy chillies. I have an over abundance of them and make chilli sauce towards the end of the season. I've made some fantastic sauces in the past few years but it's always too much for me to finish.

I'm wondering if anyone would like to share produce from their garden and send, or give it to me, and in exchange I'll make a chilli sauce and give you a bottle.

I try to grow as many fruit and veg for the chilli sauce myself but I'm running out of garden space. I'm happy to buy ingredients but I thought it would be more fun if some members of the community pitch in with their homegrown things in exchange for a bottle of (extremely) spicy sauce.

My chilli sauce base is habanero, and I add other chillies for colour, flavour and extra spice. I often use moruga scorpion for the lovely colour and a kick of heat, I occasionally add Carolina reaper, dragon breath or other extremely spicy chillies.

If anyone is willing to pitch in any of the following produce, please let me know, or if you have something you think would be good, I'm all ears.

Tomato, garlic, onion, lime, red capsicum (paprika, bell pepper), some kind of sweet fruit (previously I've used pineapple, peach, pomegranate), carrot.

If I do this it'll be around September most likely.

I live in (north) Chiba so if you aren't too far away it might be easy to meet or send.

Please let me know your thoughts on this, and if you're willing to join me, and what you think you can add.

I hope this is something the community likes and something we can do :)

I know I should be watering in the morning, etc, but I just really love gardening on the balcony at night. I do all my fertilizing and trimming and new planting and general plant checking at night. It’s cool and peaceful and the perfect way to relax after work. Surely I’m not the only one? Show me your midnight gardening pics!

I got this wisteria for my dad, he wanted it planted on the street below the retaining wall.

I planted it for him, but I’m pretty worried about the roots destroying the structural integrity of the wall and the concrete of the street and the drive way below.

I didn’t take a picture of it yet, but how worried should I be?

Was this a bad idea?

Tried growing kale and cabbages on my balcony in central Tokyo. 12F, was gone for a nice 3-day-trip during golden week. Came back to this. Any advice? 😭

Second pic from last june peach on the right

Lost some branches during the winter due to improper wrapping and snow so it’s very unbalanced 😭 hopefully can correct it with the newer growth!!

Also I wonder if these flowers will turn to fruit? What if I just kept one or two, just to have a taste?

While cleaning out weeds today, this little guy popped up and jumped on the wall.

Now I’m from an area of the states where my first thought was Brown Recluse => DEATH BITE.

But I’m here. So, anyone know what this is? I’m down in Kyushu…

Thanks!

Hi fellow gardeners. I was wondering if I should move these in soil or keep them as is.

The one on the left is 3 years old, always living in water.
The middle one is 2 years old, with its main stem dying, but another light of hope came out a few months ago.
The one on the right is 4 months old.

Living in Kamakura, I’m worried about the potential impact of the climate on these guys, especially with the summer coming.

Thank you.

Planted the seedlings on the 2nd of April. So in a span of 41 days there’s fruits!!

I kept on tapping on the flowers the moment I saw them

It’s still in good condition and can be disassembled. I have 2 that I can give away if anyone is interested. I’m in Inzai, Chiba.