Notices by Yewi (yewi@mastodon.scot)

🌦️😗 Garden this week:

1. Ume plums are almost ready to harvest. 🍑
2. The loquat tree I rescued out from entangled vines made its first fruits. 😎✨️
3. The plant called 'wild asparagus' growing in the orchard. 🌱
4. A bagful of home-made tea leaves. 😋☕ It smells nice!

#gardening #nature #wildlife #plants #trees #tea #fruits #food #foraging #Asia #Japan

Wow...

#plants #climate #flowers #gardening #wildlife #nature #Asia #Japan #cognac

#Japan #politics

The Japanese government has announced plans to constantly monitor its citizens' internet traffic🤢.

https://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/340161

I'm not sure if I still live in Japan or China, or even N. Korea...

#dictatorship #censorship

The first fruits!
(no matter how small they are yet)

These kiwi vines are grown from seedlings found in the garden years ago.

Possibly the birds brought the seeds in🕊🤔.

#gardening #fruits #peek #nature #luck #fortune #Asia #Japan

Now the rainy season is over and the shiso leaves are growing furiously😎☀.

#gardening #herbs #weather #climate #nature #cooking #Asia #Japan

#Japan #politics

Things that Japan's mainstream media don't cover:

・The toxic gas leaking out of the Osaka Expo 2025 site (...How many people overseas even know it's taking place?) and the methane gas blast accident.

・The ongoing Tokyo gubernatorial election and the numerous instances of corruption by the incumbent far-right candidate Yuriko Koike.

(1/2)

https://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/330840

Chinese blueberry (Myrica rubra) is ripening.🍒

The fruits ripen one by one during the rainy season, so sometimes puddles of red fruits are under big trees without no one picking them.🙄

I do and enjoy some fruit liqueur.😋

#gardening #foraging #trees #fruits #nature #Asia #Japan

#Bonsai mushroom.
Life exists wherever possible...🍄

#fungi #mushroom #wildlife #nature #Asia #Japan #miniatures #gardening

At last!
The sweet potatoes I planted in the soil 2 months ago have finally sprouted.😅

I thought the temperature was enough but they seem to require more than that...?

#gardening #vegetables #dormancy #wakeUp
#Asia #Japan

East Asian plant 'Houttuynia cordata" has many common names, such as fish mint🐟, and heart leaf💚.

One of them is Chinese lizard tail, I don't know why, but the lizard seems to love basking on the plant anyway 🤔🦎
(or eating the flies visiting the flowers...).

#flowers #wildlife #gardening #plants #smell
#Asia #Japan

Ornithomimus papermadeos🦖😎

#paper #crafts #craftwork #dinosaurs

Edgeworthia chrysantha, or 'banknote trees' are in bloom.💐

They prefer shady woodland somehow and don't like my garden, so it's 'やはり野に置け蓮華草 (Leave them where they want to be)'.😗♪

#flowers #trees #nature #money
#spring #Asia #Japan #motto

@fgbjr @hajistar
Hmm... broccoli leaves?? ?

? I would thinly slice them, and stir-fry with some bacons or things like that.

#vegetables #cooking
#gardening

@fgbjr @hajistar

...Or,

I checked out some blogs and they told that sometimes too much nitrogen causes that,

so putting something containing phosphorus and pottassium (like ash) in the soil to balance out, will make buds in next spring.?

@fgbjr @hajistar

Even that is nice,

I used to use bolted Chinese cabbage as na-no-hana. (...Tecnically, all brassica families are!?)

@fgbjr @hajistar
Oh that's fantastic thought, too.✨??

I also want them for my garden (and for bees?),

but where I live is a bit warm for them, so the flowering season is short and aphids are attracted more than bees...?

I wish yours do well!?

It certainly is ?orange marmalade...

...Or, 'Dacrymyces chrysospermus', orange jelly fungus.?

But by the look of it, I still cannot dismiss orange marmalade...?

#fungi #orange #winter
#jelly #wood #walking
#nature #snow
#Japan

@hajistar
Thanks!

Well, actually I licked them out of curiosity,

But I shouldn't mention the taste to keep their reputation.?

@hajistar
Wow! That's fantastic!✨??

Well, in Japan (and perhaps many other countries), infusion of 'monkey's stool'? fungus (Polyporaceae) is recognised as medicine,

and they taste... yes, certainly bitter.?

#binarySystem #Math

Every Chinese échalote (Allium chinense) divides itself into two bulbs, 2-3 times in a year.

So in theory, 1 bulb becomes 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384... bulbs in few years!?

Literally exponential growth, but in realty, as the space packs up individual plant gets smaller and smaller, so I need to transplant them.?

#gardening #vegetables #plants
#Japan #autumn