Vegetables: For your Health!

While Mom & Dad were here, Mom helped us finally get our garden planted. We decided to start small, only utilizing a small portion of our "back yard." In the bricked area, we have eggplants, cucumbers, various kinds of tomatoes, carrots, and lettuce. The grassy area is home to one watermelon plant.

We also watched the documentary "Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead" while my parents were here. It was about a guy who was unhealthy and who decided a 60-day juice fast might be his last ticket to turn his life around. I highly recommend it, and it prompted us to buy a new Breville juicer. The new juicer, new garden, and new Costco that opened a few months ago create the perfect storm for the Stock's to get super healthy in Japan!

Garden Phase 1: Clearing Weeds

Since first arriving at our apartment in Miki, we wanted to do something with our back yard, which is too small to really be a yard, but a nice size for a manageable garden plot. After years of neglect, we knew we would need to hand till the entire plot to make it useable. We went to the hardware store and bought the most basic tools. The weeds were so thick that we decided clearing them before tilling would make the whole process a little easier. A few hours of extremely sweaty and mosquito infested work later, and we now have an empty plot to work with. 

We will leave the tilling to another day. We will be a little limited in regard to what we can plant this year, with the fall almost on top of us, but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. More to come later...