Vegetable Garden Calendar
Mid-January
Sprouting potatoes
Expose to light in a room at home.
Temperature 12-23°C
[Spring]
February
Add rice bran to the field
End of February
Plant potatoes
Plant Inca no Mezame deep
Plant Kita-akari shallow
March
Sprinkle slaked lime on garlic using a mayonnaise container
Additional fertilizer
Onions, garlic
Vernal Equinox
Sowing seeds (cover with non-woven fabric)
Spring daikon radish, turnips, lettuce
Swiss chard
Late month
Planting yacon, chives, and green onions (seedlings)
April
When cherry blossoms bloom
25-cell connected pots (non-woven fabric)
Basil, edamame,
Jew's mallow,
Pots (non-woven fabric)
Sprouting taro
Zucchini, cucumber, bitter melon
Sowing seeds in pots
Watermelon Orange Heart, Daimajin
April 10th
Planting seedlings (plant chives together)
Tomato, basil, paprika, bell pepper,
Eggplant (two-stem training)
Sowing seeds
Marigold, corn, chives, green onions, basil,
Tomato 🍅 seedlings
Aiko x1, Yellow Aiko, Mini Carol x1, Frutica x1, Cindy Sweet x1, Mini x1
Direct sowing
(April 15) Edamame
Planting seedlings
(Mid-April) Watermelon, Melon
Sweet potato vines (once Yacon sprouts appear)
May
Golden Week
Planting taro, ginger
Setting up tomato stakes
Sowing seeds
Morocco beans, Kiwano, Bitter melon, Okra,
Cucumber
Mid-May
Corn insect netting
Setting up stakes
End of May
Watermelon pollination 40 days
5/27-7/7 Black 4
6/25-8/5 Black 1
Small watermelon 30 days
6/7-7/7 1
6/23-7/23 1
Melon pollination 40 days
6/5-7/15
June
Sowing seeds
Jew's mallow, Okinawan spinach, Okra
Top dressing for eggplants
Bokashi fertilizer, rapeseed oil cake
Watermelon top dressing
Rapeseed oil cake, bat guano, fish meal
1st time: vines are 50cm
2nd time: fruit is softball-sized
[Summer]
<Insect repellent>
Small 100-yen shop Ziploc bags
Cotton soaked in peppermint oil
Small holes made with a toothpick
Pollination of early summer watermelons is
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
July
Additional fertilizer for eggplants
Bokashi fertilizer, rapeseed oil cake
Additional fertilizer for watermelons as needed
Bokashi fertilizer, rapeseed oil cake, bat guano, fish meal
Pollination of midsummer watermelons is
6:30 AM - 7:00 AM
Watermelon harvest 40-50 days (July)
30 days (late July - August)
《4 days after the tendrils wither》
August
Tomatoes planted in April🍅
Harvest in June
Additional fertilizer for eggplants
Bokashi fertilizer, rapeseed oil cake
【First day of autumn】
Sowing carrot seeds
Planting celery seedlings
End of August
Making ridges, laying mulch for daikon radishes
September
25-cell connected pots
Lettuce, Chinese cabbage, cabbage
15th Sowing seeds
Daikon radish, turnip, leaf lettuce, Swiss chard, red leaf lettuce, garland chrysanthemum, green onion
Sowing seeds in 128-cell connected pots
Onions,
(If planted directly, insects will stir up the soil and the sprouts will not emerge.)
Harvest
Yam
20th [Autumnal Equinox]
Planting shallots, transplanting bent green onions, planting potatoes
Planting seedlings (plant between sunny lettuce and garland chrysanthemum)
Broccoli, cauliflower,
End of September
Laying mulch for Komatsuna
Laying mulch for onions and garlic
October
Planting seedlings (plant basil together)
Chinese cabbage, cabbage, sunny lettuce
Sowing seeds
Spinach
[Mid-month]
Planting garlic
Sowing seeds for Komatsuna and turnips
Planting seedlings
Strawberry Mitsuka
Harvesting sweet potatoes
November
Early month planting seedlings
Onions
Harvest
Taro
10th Sowing seeds
Nemophila
Peas
Rye
Mid-month harvest
Yacon, taro
Frost protection
December 15: Cover leafy vegetables with plastic tunnels. Cover peas with netting.
December: Apply additional fertilizer to onions and garlic using Bokashi fertilizer
January: Apply additional fertilizer to onions, 8x8
March: Apply additional fertilizer to onions and garlic