The field was covered with weeds after being left unattended for half a month due to cataract surgery. Especially this year, I stopped using black mulch and started using grass mulch to imitate natural farming, but it was not effective and the field became a weed paradise.
Nevertheless, when the rainy season ended and the heat wave came without rain, we decided to befriend the weeds in the hopes that they would have an effect (e.g., water retention in the soil). Tried a lax no-till cultivation and weed management!
Vegetables taller than weeds
Since they all seemed to be fertilizer-eating vegetables, I mowed lightly between the rows with a mower and spread fermented chicken manure.
in weeds
Short vegetables buried in weeds.
Vegetables lower than weeds cannot be mowed with a mower; they must be cut with a sickle or give up.
Summer Vegetables Rampaging with Letting Go
We were not able to take care of summer vegetables at the time they needed branching, so they have been quite rampant.
Cucumbers that were not even harvested, but turned out to be huge. It is probably a banned term now, but in the old days it was called grandma cucumber and tasted good when made into cucumber rubs. Since they are not sold, we get requests for them from the elderly.
The mini-tomatoes have turned into a jungle because we did not do any branching at all. Still, it looks like we will be able to harvest.
Summer vegetables that could not be cared for, but seem to produce a reasonable harvest.
Snacking on berries between farm work!
Blueberries and blackberries are just good for eating. We make sours with ice sugar and vinegar and enjoy them all year round.
Work that has not yet been done
There are a lot of things I could not work on during the half month, but I have not been able to clean up after the early summer vegetables and get them ready for fall and winter.
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