Cold weather has been returning in late February and early March. Today (March 9) is another snowstorm. It has been 20 days since the small plum blossoms started blooming around February 20, and they are still only about fifth blooming. It will take as long as a month for them to be in full bloom.
This week we will be taking cuttings from shrubby fruit trees and making shinotake bamboo posts.
In a brief sunny spell. The temperature is about 5 degrees colder.
Making cuttings
I am planning to try no-till and natural farming this year. (Conventional farming is getting more and more tedious by the minute.) I want to create a natural garden style with a diversity of shrubs, miscellaneous vegetables, and a mixture of weeds.
To achieve this, we have created many blueberry and fig cuttings.
The blueberries are cuttings in a blend of peat moss and red ball.
Water needs to be managed for 3 months. How successful will it be?
Japanese torreya, blackberry, Juneberry, gooseberry, and rosemary are also cuttings while they are at it.
Making shinotake poles
In order to build a walking trail in a compound forest, cut bamboo branches and leaves are cut and processed for supporting summer vegetables such as cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, and vines such as kidney beans, peas (snack, kinusaya, and green peas). We use quite a lot of them, but the old supports rot or break after a couple of years, so we need to add more every year.
Drinks for cedar hay fever?
The cedar pollen is not bursting because of the cold weather, but when the temperature rises, it is all atwitter. I always have antihistamines on hand but take them as little as possible. I pick rosemary from the field and add it to the blackberry sour I made in the summer and drink it hot, which somehow seems to help.
Maybe the rosemary flavor and the anthocyanin pigments in the blackberries fool me.
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