Peacefulness in the farm

Again too far apart from the last renewal of this blog. Getting cooler or even more chilly day by day, it has been the best season for me to seed or plant vegetables for the coming winter. It has kept me busy in addition to pulling the weeds in the lawn etc. 

This is another spontaneously grown white radish. There have been several radishes grown to bear seeds, which were spontaneously seedled this spring , I guess. I was surprised to see this one grown so big without any care. It will be a material for Oden later.

This splendid growth of this radish made me convinced that seeds from certain kind of vegetable grown at a place would do so well at the very same place as I wrote in a previous post. No sign of disturbed repetition of cultivation.  

Onion seedles planted in grass mulch. Onion seeded by myself are not growing well enough to seedle yet. These seedles were purchased at a shop last month and temporarily planted at another place. More than 100 seedles were planted. Even though this kind would last long possibly until the winter in 2026, who would consume them?

Tiny young pea plants are budding from the seeds harvested this spring.

Spinach is also budding successfully. This lot has been seeded a week ago when it was pretty cool. Covered with non woven fabric and watered enough, these tiny buds came out. I was suspicious that they might not come out in this prewinter weather. But they sure did. You may laugh at me being moved at these tiny plants coming on the soil in the farm.

Marie gold is fully blooming. It has not bloomed in the hottest season but has come out when it got this cool. Lovely flowers. It has been planted to prevent a kind of nematode which disturbes growth of tomatoes. This year, unfortunately, tomatoes were not successful due to a kind of bug aspirating the fruits and leading to decay. It is another question how to avoid it without using insectcides. 

 

When I sit on the soil of the farm, a kind of peacefulness difficult to express by words sometimes overwhelms my mind. A famous farmer of natural farming told we could sense ourselves as a part of the flow of lives when working in the farm. That peacefulness might be related with such an internal perception even if we feel it as it is or not. In that sense, we could be totally free from any attributes given by the others or even our wish or demand for any thing in the world. When convinced with this peacefulness or relief, we might overcome the problem of our death. We just live in the flow of lives and would return to the other phase of life in nature when dying.