家庭菜園
ゴールデンウイーク。今年は暦通り。何時もだと何処か小旅行に・・と云うところだが、
今年は転居して間がないと云う事もあって自宅で過ごす事とした。１日は「角好集会」
という２０年近く続いているゴルフコンペに参加したが後の３日は全くの自宅。
前々から考えていた菜園つくりに着手した。自宅の庭の一部に菜園をつくるのが夢であったが、
今度の家は何とかそのスペースが確保できそう。そこで早速、近くのホームセンターに出かけ農機具と土壌改良剤を購入、
鍬とスコップを片手にねじり鉢巻で開墾をはじめた。「開墾とは大げさな・・」と言われそうだが、
踏み固められた庭を畑にするのはまさに開墾であった。最初は、鍬で十分と勢いよく振り上げたが全く歯がたたない、
そこでスコップに持ち替え格闘すること半日、何とか１坪半程を開墾に成功した。
後は鍬で何回か土を掘り返す。消石灰や土壌改良剤を混ぜては掘り返すを繰り返し、畝を３つ作って一様完成とした。
たった１坪半ほどの畑であるが足腰肩腕はパンパン。お百姓さんの苦労やいかに・・・身にしみて感じたゴールデンウイークであった。
１週間ほど寝かせ、来週くらいにはいよいよ種植えである。どうなる事やら・・・、失敗は覚悟の上、とにかくやってみようと思う。
何とも楽しみである・・・。
農機具一式
開墾途中
土中から出てきた石や木屑。
何とか畑らしくなってきたところ。
畝を三筋作って一応完成。
Golden Week. As per the calendar this year. Usually, I’d say we should take a short trip somewhere.
The first day of the meeting was “Kakuyoshi Gathering”.
I participated in a golf competition that has been going on for almost 20 years, but I didn’t play at home for the next three days.
I started to make a vegetable garden, which I had been thinking about for a long time. It was his dream to create a vegetable garden in a part of his home garden, but
The next house seems to have managed to get that space. So, I went out to a nearby home center and bought some farm equipment and soil conditioner.
With a hoe and a shovel in one hand and a headband in the other, he began to cultivate the land. You might say, “Cultivation is an exaggeration…
To turn a trampled garden into a field was indeed cultivation. At first, I swung up vigorously enough to hoe, but it didn’t hit me at all.
After half a day of wrestling with a shovel, we succeeded in cultivating about 1.5 square meters of land.
All that’s left is to dig the dirt back a few times with a hoe. After mixing with slaked lime and soil conditioner and digging repeatedly, three ridges were made to complete the uniformity.
It is only a field of about 1.5 square meters, but the legs, shoulders, and arms are full. It was the Golden Week that I felt the hardships of the farmers.
I let them sleep for about a week and finally plant the seeds next week or so. I don’t know what’s going to happen…but I’m prepared to fail, so I’m going to try anyway.
It’s a lot of fun…..
