ゴーヤーの初収穫

今日もミニトマト、ピーマン、シソが大豊作。だけど、今日の主役は何と言っても初めて収穫したゴーヤー。これからの実つきをよくするため、小さめで収穫しましたが、いとおしくて仕方がありません。
I had a good crop of grape tomato, green pepper and Japanese basil again. Today's emphasis, however, must be on goya, which are the first crop. In order to get better crop from now on, they are rather small, but I have the greatest fondness for them.

落花生の花

トマトやナスの収穫、整枝に追われてしばらくほったらかしにしていた落花生、ふと見ると花がいっぱい。露草に似た形で黄色が清清しい。
When I glanced at peanut that I hadn't looked for weeks because we'd been too busy with harvesting and pruning of tomatos and eggplant, I found many flowers. Their shape is like that of day flower and yellow color is so refreshing.

今日の収穫

今朝はあっという間に伸びてしまったゴーヤーのためにネットを掛けて、ツルをそのネットに誘引してきました。でもそれはほとんど夫の仕事で、私はせっせと雑草取り。辛いけど、この頃は行くたびに右のような収穫があるので頑張れます。
We laid a net for fast-growing Goya, or bitter gourd, and drew its vines to the net this morning. However, it's my husband's job while I pulled weeds like Trojan. It's painful, but I can go on becasue in the end, we can get harvest as in the left picture whenever we go to the field.

畑からおつまみ

朝畑から収穫したピーマンとナスをグリルで焼いて、きりっと冷やした白ワインと頂く。美味しくて幸せなひとときです。
We harvested greenpepper and eggplant this morning, and we ate them with chilled white wine in the ende of the day. I just love this happy moment.

自家消費

畑から帰った後、本日のランチは取れたて青梗菜と厚揚げの炒め物とグリーンサラダ。葉っぱは全て自家製で新鮮、ヘルシー。
After coming back from our field, I fixed lunch with newly harvested qing-geng-cai and green leaves for salad. Greens are all homegrown and fresh.

ほうれん草が。。。

	収穫時期を逸したほうれん草に花が咲き、雑草のようになってしまいました。葉っぱを収穫して普通に食べられますが、週に一度の収穫では成長に追いつけず、ぐんぐん茎が太く伸びていきます。種を撒く時期、収量を計算しなかったゆえの大失敗です。だけど、なすやピーマンは初めて実を結び、いい感じで成長しています。
	Gash, my spinach has flowers and grows like wild weed. Though we can harvest leaves and eat them as usual, one harvest in a week is not just frequent enough to catch up with its growth, which is an obvious failure due to lack of planning. However, green peppers and egg plants have their first fruit and grows very well.

本日の畑

葉っぱのミックスがすくすく育って、もう食べ頃。だけどご覧の通り、農薬を撒くなど虫除けの努力を一切していないので、虫食いだらけです。気持ち悪いなあ～って思ったけど、洗って炒めればスーパーの野菜よりずっと美味しい！虫の食べ残しを頂くというのも、謙虚な気持ちになれていいかも。

Mixed leaves are now ripe. As we see in the picture; however, worms have eaten them as much as they want because we didn't do anything to prevent them. I felt sick when I saw them, but when I washed clean and sauteed them, they tasted much better than what are sold at supermarket. It might be a good idea to eat worm-eaten leaves, feeling we eat worm's leftover leaves becuase we can be humble.

下の写真は落花生が発芽したところ。可愛いでしょ～！種を鳥に食べられないように、ペットボトルの上部でカバーしてあるのです。

The picture below shows peanut sprout. We put an upper part of plastic bottle to prevent birds from eating peanut seeds. Sprout looks so cute!

トマトも実をつけました！再来週あたりから収穫なるか？

We found first tomato fruit. I couldn't help thinking, "will we be able to get harvest about the week after next?"