Incredible! (超厲害!)

WOW! This Japanese guy really just spent 5 minutes from getting up, eating breakfast, to getting ready for work in 5 minutes! Personally, I’d rather get up a bit earlier than rush through all the routines and eventually die from a renal failure, but I have to say that the way he put on a tie is just amazing!

Ready For The Prime Time (準備登場囉！)

Among our various blueberry bushes, this one seems to be ready for the prime time. The berries on the others are still mostly green and need another month of sunbath to be ready.

David already tried a blueberry yesterday. He liked the taste (“It tastes like blueberry!“) but thought that they might be a bit too tart for me. The truth is, they’ll never be sweet enough for me, because our blueberry bushes just don’t get that much sunlight. Even though I have no interests in eating our blueberries, I still enjoy seeing them grow and change colors and get eaten by David every year!

DVG – Day 59 & New Friends

If you open your eyes REALLY wide and search REALLY hard, you can see that we have some new friends in the garden. See the 2 little baby green things on the back? Yup, more yummy lettuce! Actually we also planted about 70 radish seeds, but that’ll take a couple of weeks for them to be visible in the group shot.

And David even planted a little one next to its 59-day old brothers & sisters:

We Know Summer Is Here… (我們知道夏天到了、、、)

…when we can’t see pass by Gerry & Ingrid’s House and have to put on our fleece jacket (and possibly turn on our heater)…

、、、當我們只看得到我們鄰居 Gerry & Ingrid 的房子時, 當我們得穿上我們的 fleece 外套時（甚至打開我們的暖氣時）、、、

Blueberries Are Getting Ready（小藍莓快熟了！）

The shades of purple are definitely getting darker!

DVG – Day 56

Time flies! It’s almost 2 months since David planted the vegetable. As you can see, the arugula in the back is out of control! David is thinking about pulling some of them out to plant something else, because we just don’t consume that much.

In front of the crazy arugula is kale. We don’t eat that much kale (yet), since David wants to wait for the leaves to grow bigger & tougher for his crispy kale appetizer. (It’s like dry seaweed but with crinkly texture.) He’s been mixing a few leaves to his pan fried garlic & Swiss chard dish to give it a bit of bitter taste. After several tries, I think that it’s probably best to leave kale out of the dish.

And right in front of the gate is our very happy Swiss chard, which we’ve been enjoying quite a bit and that’s why some of them look rather skinny . Actually not just us; bugs seem to like it the most among all things in the garden, too, unfortunately.

On the left of the Swiss chard is my favorite one in David’s vegetable garden — lettuce! They don’t look all that big, because someone has been busy nibbling at them! I can’t remember how many bowls of salad we’ve had so far, but new leaves just keep on growing back.

For the longest time, we really didn’t know what to do with those beans behind our very happy lettuce… David thought they were just not doing well there and thought about pulling them all out and planted something else. However, even though they did not grow taller or bigger, flowers started blooming and there is a chance that we might have a few beans. So, yeah, David has changed his mind and will leave them there for now.

Well, between our beans are our delicious radish. I pulled out most of them last time, but there are still a few left. David said that it’s about time to plant more radish seeds. Boy, the radish was good!

Radish Harvest Time (櫻桃蘿蔔大豐收)

The pretty radish David had planted had a mustard kind of hotness to it. Since I was not a big fan of loud mustard (or fake Wasabi) and we thought that it would get hotter as it grew bigger, today I did an emergency harvest before out radish became too hot for my taste. Only when tasting them side by side during dinner time, I finally realized that our original assumption was wrong: The smaller ones actually were hotter! Oh well…

Look at them! Aren’t they adorable?

石頭種的櫻桃蘿蔔有辣辣的芥末味。因為我不喜歡太辣的芥末（或是假的山葵）, 再加上我們以為櫻桃蘿蔔長越大越辣, 所以今天趕緊來個緊急大採收。晚餐時來試吃比較, 才發現原來櫻桃蘿蔔是小的比較辣、、、

看, 漂亮吧！