By dennis

With the warm weather finally coming in, the trees also awake from hibernation and are keen to absorb some rays of light. Lots of deciduous trees in the Niseko area and it creates some quite stunning colours and views. This photo is taken from the Niseko Green Farm overlooking the river valley and the Hirafu ski resort in the back ground. There is still quite some snow on the top on the mountain.
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Spring came late here in Niseko area. Also our asparagus took their time to stick their heads out of the ground.But finally they are here and in abundance. For ¥1200 you can get 1 kg of our organically grown spears.Our web shop will be open soon or just send us an email and we will send you a box full of spring delight.
Click on this link to see Glen Claydon’s post on his website about NGF asparagus.
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Nursery time at NGF. Looking after many little baby plants. It is a bit of a delicate job.
These little fellows don’t need much but some light, water and fertilizer, but to get the balance right for good growth is a bit harder.

Once the plants are established and the first true leaves are appearing life goes pretty quick for these jalapenos. they will be producing their first fruit in two months time.
We had a bit of a late start, but late May early June we will have seedlings for sale as well. But for outdoor planting that is right on time for Hokkaido.
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Some nice miserable weather in April. Many cold and cloudy days. The recent rain helped to get rid of most of the snow and now we areWatching the snow melt away finally on our fields.
Hopefully it will not rain too much in the on coming weeks, so we can start with fertilizing our fields for another year of vegetable growing.
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Yuki chan is getting bigger every day.
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Our little black friend here, wakes up early after winter and with an appetite. Rather than spraying it to a certain death, we sow some clover that also comes up early and so the flea beetles have something else to feed on than our precious asparagus. You can recognize it's offspring as those little things that jump around your crops, like fleas. Floating row cover works well as prevention.
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Just born and still a bit dazed. Mother goat standing proud next to her young daughter.

Some careful first steps.
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These pumpkins are keen to get cut up for your halloween decorations.
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