Artichoke seeds

I grew an artichoke plant in the past two years. It didn't come up last spring, I think it had died during the winter. I couldn't find artichoke plants this year, but I found artichoke seeds on the internet the other day. I bought a package of the seeds, I will grow them next year. I hope they will grow well. The seed company gave me flower seeds as a gift.

myoga

I bought 3 myoga plants this year. They didn't grow well, so I only got two myogas. I wonder if other countries' poeple eat them?

Only one

I have been growing this cranberry plant for three years. I got only one berry this year. I don't know how to grow this properly, so I think I should pick this plant and grow some other berries.(???)

Plum tree

Cranberry

Cranberry

I bought this tiny cranberry plant last year. It flowered a lot during the summer, so I expected that I could get lots of berries.However I got a few!I wanted to make cranberry sauce like westerners, but ....

Grapes

My mother growing some grapes. The grape vines didn't produce lots of grapes this year, but we enjoy eating fresh ones.

Last pink rose

This pink rose was this year's last rose in our garden. I took this picture after the rain. The rain drops were shining that morning.We had first frost last week, so it became brownish.

Artichoke 3

I realized that artichokes' edible parts were so little that I decided to see how they grew. They are growing little by little, and the petals are getting gross.???

Lily

Pumpkin

Artichoke 2

Black currant

I bought a black currant plant last fall. This year it produced some berries. They tasted a little more sour than I expected. Maybe I need to put fertilizer for it.

Artichoke

This is my second year to grow artichoke. This plant produced no buds last year, but this year it has produced several buds already. I hope we can eat some this year! I had never eaten artichokes before. When I went shopping to next city the other day, I found many foreign foods at a supermarket. I was so excited to see them, BUT I forgot to take my wallet, neither a credit card.I found some bottled artichoke pickles there.I am looking for recipes for artichokes now.

Baby cucumber

I have never seen fresh baby cucumbers in my town, but I found some baby cucumber plants at a DIY shop this spring. I bought only one plant for trial. It produced three cucumbers so far, but I picked only one.The upper is regular size and lower is a baby size. It's so cute. If I get lots of baby cucumbers, I want to make dill pickles.I ate them as a salad yesterday.

Blueberry 2011

The plum tree

Japanese call purple plums "prune", but I realized it's a Japanese English. I have learned prune meant "dried plums.

My mother has two purple plum trees which my sister gave her as birthdat presents about 14 years ago. They didn't produce many plums. So,.......

Artichoke

It was my first time to grow an artichoke. We have already had frost many times, it is still alive. hadnThis hadn't had buds, so I couldn't eat it.I didn't know it was perenial.　 I hope it will grow well next year.

Although, we have had frost many times, these herbs are very strong for cold.I made some night snack with them.

Cranberry plant

A few weeks ago, I bought this cranberry plant. I made cranberry and orange juice jam. It was so-so. I hope this plant will grow well and I can get lots of berries next year.