They also kill people, right? I hear they don’t like black, and that’s why people wear white hats in summer. If you get stung once, you develop an allergy and can go into shock and die the next time, I think.
【3】黒いものだけを攻撃するのではない
スズメバチは黒色のものを敵とみなして襲う傾向にあるとされる。だから、黒じゃなければ大丈夫と誤解されることが多い。ハチは白黒で物を見るので、濃い色はハチにとって黒と同じで、攻撃してくる。とはいえ、動いている白と止まっている黒なら、スズメバチは動くものを狙う。白い帽子をかぶり、低い姿勢で動かないのがベターだ。
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But I don’t know if they’re the same ones!
As it turns out, that earlier photo is was pretty much the pinnacle of the flower’s beauty. The rest of the flowers started opening like that as well, and then after a day each one would “close” and then harden and fall off, making way for:
I can’t even find out what this “fuzzy” stage is called in English, let alone in Japanese to know if there’s a kanji for it. But the end result for me will be the たね, which apparently has the kanji 種子, which it seems can also be pronounced しゅし. I don’t know the difference between one pronunciation or the other in use. I just know たね from ポケモン.
I have been looking for it’s first appearance:
field bindweed
昼顔 (noon face)
I only have it in a small section of my garden. Last year, I was vigilant about pulling it weekly. That has paid off … but it will take a couple more years to eliminate it entirely. It truly is one of the toughest weeds in a perennial garden, because it climbs up the stalks of the other plants.
10 years ago, that whole corner of the garden was a bindweed and poison ivy patch!
( I didn’t actually let it flower, that picture is just one from the internet. I haven’t seen an actual bindweed flower here in more than a few years.)
AKA 私の大敵
I don’t think I will ever be able to eliminate it from our garden 
It is one of the worst. The more successful your other perennials are, the more successful the 昼顔 is, because it trails so closely up the stems and is so hard to find in a thickly grown area.
I don’t know of any great solution. Pull it every week. Never ever ever let it go to flower.
Permanent solutions:
I was going to call it the worst ever enemy of a flower bed, but I think that 虎杖 might be as bad. Except that at least you can eat that. 虎杖 has been banned from our property, even to bring home from elsewhere to cook, for fear that we may drop one small piece and the whole property would become infested. 
It’s a prosecutable offence in the UK to in any way cause the intentional or unintentional spread of 虎杖. You aren’t obliged to eradicate it if it is already present on your property, but it can be pretty much impossible to sell if you don’t and if it ever encroaches onto neighbouring property or into the wild you’re in trouble.
I have read that about the U.K.
It is too late here in the U.S… If you drive along any small waterway, you will see it. I am sure that it is listed as invasive here, but I haven’t seen the level of concern that the U.K. has.
Well, they decided a good while ago that an eradication programme would be prohibitively expensive, but yeah, they’re pretty intense about not letting it spread.
My first Haskaps!
These grow native in 北海道 and also Russia. They are in the honeysuckle family.
I can not find the Japanese word for them though. Does any one know it?
Super puckery and yummy. Like a cross between a blueberry and a cranberry and an elderberry.
Maybe, this?
田ランクさんありがとうございました!
It’s cold here but we’re ecowarriors and as such we say no to electric propagators!
Meet the cattorganic heated propagation system:
Hesperis matronalis
I grow this as a biennial garden flower. It blooms at the same time as iris. It is actually considered a bit of an agricultural pest, because it harbors diseases of other plants.
Also here is my current veggie garden:
Trellis for Cucumbers, cabbages in foreground:
:Lettuces are big and being eaten daily by us, but in another area.
A little bit of 蒟蒻 made it outside through the winter!
This is so prolific. I always did up a few corms from my pots and plant them in the ground. I don’t bother digging them up.
But I dug up a flower pot with lots of rotten ones, and found a few gems!
Some common words for dirt. 
土 earth, dirt, the earth (level 3)(common)
垢 dirt, filth, grime (N1)(common)
泥 mud, mire (N3)(level 31)(common)
汚れ dirt, filth (common)
塵 dust, dirt (common)
汚物 filth, excrement
土 Saturday, earth originally
土間 earthen floor (common)
塵埃 dust, dirt
ダート dirt road
爪糞 dirt that gathers under nails
土壇 dirt mound
土壇場 last moment (the dirt mound used for executions) idiomatic expression (common word)
土壌 soil (level 53) (common)
土地 plot of land or soil (level 6) (N3) (common)
土質 soil, soil quality
城土soil, loam
粘土clay (level 47)(common)
砂 sand (N4)(level 33)(common)
皆さんこんにちは！
これはとても簡単な技です。
電気ドリルが要りません。斧と金槌だけ。
A very simple way to make raised beds. No power drill needed- I used just an axe and a hammer.
Split logs to make stakes, hammer into a straight line, hammer some more in a line slightly offset, slot pallet slats or other planks between the lines of stakes. Good if you have soft ground!
That is very clever.
Do you have shipping pallets to rip apart where you live too?
Also is that the stuff that you call dirt in Wales?
Good luck growing carrots or 大根 in that.
We don’t really use the word “dirt” in Britain the same way as it’s used in North America. Dirt is only really used in the realm of cleaning, to explain what you want removed from your clothes or your kitchen floor or whatever. What’s under your feet is earth, ground or soil. I would never refer to a growing medium as dirt!
The ground here is clay with a lot of rocks; something to do with glacial action. It is compacted here especially as the area I’m working in was terraced with as bulldozer a few years ago, to turn a hill into a usable flat area. This end of the polytunnel was totally under-utilised as the ground wasn’t level. The farmer recently dug a large pit so he can do work under cars. The spoil from that pit evened out the ground and allowed me to create more beds.
Shipping pallets in the EU are heat treated as a preservative (in the past they were treated with methyl bromide) so are safe to burn or use around crops. They were a staple part of the economy at the squat I used to live at!
Agreed! Soil/earth is a living thing, dirt is dead.
I was using “dirt” a little tongue in cheek. I actually looked up the Welsh words for soil and dirt before I posted it. I used “dirt” because the stuff in your picture looks so unsuitable for planting.
I use words consciously. In English, I almost always tend to favor words not of Latin origin. “Soil” is from latin. “Dirt” is from Norse.
Many or the Northern European words fell out of favor when Latin based words were introduced. To me, English still “feels” with Nordic and Germanic words though. “Dirt” evokes emotion.
