New subscriber looking forward to watching your videos from Japan

@TheKamakuraGardener

5 күн бұрын

Thank you and welcome, RVBliss! 🙏🏾🤩🐶

@annettegregg8654

3 күн бұрын

Welcome, you will love Robert's videos 😊

@TheKamakuraGardener

3 күн бұрын

🙏🏾🤩🐶

@rvbliss

3 күн бұрын

@@annettegregg8654 I'm seeing that 😀

Hi Robert and Haru. Garden looks great! I'm so jealous of the rain. We need rain very bad. It has been extremely hot here in NC. We have reached 100 F a couple times and no rain. But my garden is hanging in there. Of course I'm watering. Enjoyed the potato harvest. I grew them for the first time this year. I did not know they needed to be cured so thank you for video. Have a great upcoming week and send some of that beautiful rain our way!

@TheKamakuraGardener

5 күн бұрын

Thanks Becky! I watch NC KZreadrs Justin Rhodes, The Hollar Homestead and Sow the Land, and I’ve noticed that they’re not getting much rain. When it does finally rain be sure to save some of the run-off. 👍🏾🤩🐶

Thank you for sharing your garden.

@TheKamakuraGardener

5 күн бұрын

Your enjoyment is my happiness! 🙏🏾🤩🐶

Good morning, Robert and Haru! Nice harvest!

@TheKamakuraGardener

5 күн бұрын

Thank you Shannon! 🙏🏾🤩🐶

Another beautiful video. Thank you 😊 ♥️

@TheKamakuraGardener

6 күн бұрын

You’re most welcome! 🙏🏾🤩🐶

What delicious looking harvest you had there! 😊🍃🍅🍃🫐🍃🥔🍃🍆

@TheKamakuraGardener

3 күн бұрын

Hi Joenell! Thanks, everything tastes good too. 😋👍🏾🤩🐶

So glad youtube recommended your channel!

@TheKamakuraGardener

4 күн бұрын

Thanks Houston! And welcome! 🙏🏾🤩🐶

Good morning, I really look forward to seeing your accomplishments on Saturday. Happy Saturday ☺️

@TheKamakuraGardener

6 күн бұрын

Thank you! 🙏🏾🤩🐶

What a lovely garden. I was amazed when you mentioned not having aphids but then remembered the temperature you showed because I'm dealing with high heat. My blueberry bushes are in their first year so your harvest was to die for!! But your video made me realize that gardeners are gardeners the world over!!

@TheKamakuraGardener

4 күн бұрын

Hello Cherrie! We’ll be seeing more aphids once the rainy season ends. But by then they hopefully won’t be able to do much damage. I’m getting more blueberries this year compared to last year. The bushes are still too small to grow a bumper crop. I buy them every week of the year at the supermarket, so I hope to stop that in the not-too-distant future. 🤞🏾Have a great week ahead! 👍🏾🤩🐶

Hello Robert. You have a lovely garden. What a great potato harvest.

@TheKamakuraGardener

4 күн бұрын

So nice of you to say that! 🙏🏾🤩🐶

Congratulations on the potato harvest.

@TheKamakuraGardener

6 күн бұрын

Thank you! 🙏🏾🤩🐶

What a wonderful garden...congrats nice job

@TheKamakuraGardener

5 күн бұрын

Thank you! 🙏🏾🤩🐶

Hi Robert, you got a nice harvest of potatoes. Mine are starting to die back, so I will harvest in a week or 2 and then plant something else! We’ve been in a draught and just started getting some rain. Thanks 4 sharing & happy gardening everyone!!!!

@TheKamakuraGardener

5 күн бұрын

Hello Steffanie! I hope to plant the squash down where the potatoes were growing. And I’ll replant the lemon trees and the jalapeño plants 🌱. Here’s wishing you a good potato harvest! 🙏🏾🤩🐶

Great garden!! Very soothing voice you have❤❤

@TheKamakuraGardener

5 күн бұрын

Thanks Makayla! 🙏🏾🤩🐶

Good evening Robert and Haru🙏

@TheKamakuraGardener

5 күн бұрын

Hello Maya! 👍🏾🤩🐶

Good morning Robert and Haru!

@TheKamakuraGardener

6 күн бұрын

Good morning David! Hope you’re having a good weekend! 👍🏾🤩🐶

🇨🇦❤️🇯🇵Good Morning from GBL-The Ole Church 5 Acre Homestead!

@TheKamakuraGardener

Күн бұрын

good morning good man! 👍🏾🤩🐶

Hi there Robert You had a great potato harvest. And you looked pretty sharp in those glasses. Have a blessed day my friend 😊

@TheKamakuraGardener

6 күн бұрын

Thanks Renee! 🙏🏾🤩🐶

Good morning, Robert & Haru-chan! The garden seems to be doing well despite the rainy season. Seems like it's heavier than even last year. And May was heavier than usual, too.

@TheKamakuraGardener

5 күн бұрын

Hello Masahiko! Yes, the rainy season seems to have begun early this year. But the garden is loving it. Have a good Sunday! 🙏🏾🤩🐶

That's a awesome harvest, just imagining having the blue berrys with some yogurt..

@TheKamakuraGardener

4 күн бұрын

I have them with my cereal every day, and with yogurt every Sunday morning. 😋👍🏾🤩🐶

Every time I watch your videos, I'm amazed at all the work you put into your garden. It truly is a labor of love. Have a great weekend. 🥰🥰 Oh and by the way, the sunglasses suit you. 😎😎

@TheKamakuraGardener

5 күн бұрын

Thanks Babs! Enjoy your weekend too. 👍🏾🤩🐶

Very nice harvest. I had a lime and lemon tree, but due to high heat last summer. I lost them. I'm going to try again, but in large pots on my patio instead in the ground. Enjoy your day!

@TheKamakuraGardener

5 күн бұрын

Hi Catwoman! I’m going to use large grow bags so that I can easily move them around. Good luck next time. 🤞🏾👍🏾🤩🐶

Good Morning Robert and Haru. You really have had a green growth spurt in the garden. Yes the Blueberry crop is good. I never new what peanuts looked like.

@TheKamakuraGardener

2 күн бұрын

Good morning to you Anna! Yes, I’m working on the Wednesday segment of the next episode and the plants are coming along very nicely. I’ve done some transplanting but you’ll have to wait until Saturday to find out what. ☺️ Have a great day today. 🙏🏾🤩🐶

@annar6430

2 күн бұрын

@@TheKamakuraGardener I arrived in a cold and wet UK Tuesday ..just ahead of the airport being closed due to hurricane Beryl . Don't like this weather at all. 💗

@TheKamakuraGardener

2 күн бұрын

@annar6430 Yikes! Be careful with your health. 🙏🏾🤩🐶

@annar6430

2 күн бұрын

@@TheKamakuraGardener will do a lot of walking with dog

I look forward to your videos.

@TheKamakuraGardener

6 күн бұрын

Thank you! 🙏🏾🤩🐶

Amazing voice!

@TheKamakuraGardener

5 күн бұрын

Thank you Jayne! 🙏🏾😊🐶

It's such a beautiful garden!!! I set my partially ripened tomatoes in the windowsill. This time of year they ripen within a day or two. I do have some bananas in a rack nearby so that might hasten things.

@TheKamakuraGardener

5 күн бұрын

Thanks! I just bought some bananas 🍌. They’re close to my tomatoes too. 👍🏾🤩🐶

Hello Robert, I love potato harvest thank you so much for that. That was a good one too. I’m in the midst of catching raccoons that are digging up my beauties in my garden. I caught a baby one, so I’m sure the mama will be around soon. It’s always something in our gardens isn’t there the sweet peas are divine right now I hope you have a great week.

@TheKamakuraGardener

6 күн бұрын

Hello Kelleena! What did you do with the little raccoon? 🦝🤔

@Kelleena1on1

5 күн бұрын

@@TheKamakuraGardener we catch and release :-)

@Kelleena1on1

5 күн бұрын

@@TheKamakuraGardener we caught another little one lol

@TheKamakuraGardener

4 күн бұрын

That’s nice; they’re kinda cute. 😇

Everything looks good! Love your videos!

@TheKamakuraGardener

5 күн бұрын

Thanks! You made my day! 🙏🏾🤩🐶

It’s my first time here. Such a lovely channel. Thank you for sharing. One love!

@TheKamakuraGardener

5 күн бұрын

Welcome Camella! I’m glad that you found us. 🙏🏾🤩🐶

@camellabailey5548

5 күн бұрын

@@TheKamakuraGardener Thank you.

Hello Robert! I see the year has been treating you well. Very nice harvest today- a little bit of everything. Loving the trips to the market! Pretty good deal on those 3 lemon trees. Time to catch up on your videos brother. Take Care

@TheKamakuraGardener

3 күн бұрын

Thanks AJ! Yes, the lemon trees were about half the price as this past spring when I checked. Something urged me to wait. I hope the second half of this year will be as good or better than the first half. 🙏🏿🤩🐶 Enjoy!

5kg 🥔🥔🥔, great harvest

@TheKamakuraGardener

2 күн бұрын

Yes, thanks! 🙏🏾🤩🐶

Those Tomato Horn Worms 22:38 can easily been seen with ultraviolet light - remember when Gina and Al had them in their greenhouse? They bought some hand-held black light/ultraviolet LED flashlights that work well. I picked up one of those flashlights after seeing that as ultraviolet light can be used for other purposes, besides black light posters! Remember those? Great fun to have one in a dorm room or home to make one feel like a real hippy! Interesting that the mint helped to keep the bugs at bay! Nice episode, Robert - thank you for the treat! Hope the weekend treats you well and you get a chance to relax and smell the roses and or basil or mint!

@TheKamakuraGardener

6 күн бұрын

Yes, Sam I do fondly remember black lights from the 60s and 79s. 😄 I was thinking about getting one but I hadn’t seen the horn worms 🐛 in about 10 years. 😅🤞🏾 I’ll have to keep a lookout 👀 for them. Have an awesome weekend! 👍🏾🤩🐶

Great harvest. Thank you for taking us along with you.

@TheKamakuraGardener

5 күн бұрын

You’re welcome Deborah! 🙏🏾🤩🐶

It’s Wednesday here Robert, watching just how your experiment with ripening tomatoes in a paper sack goes... Mrs. Betty and I have done this, however, we add a Banana Peel to the bag!

@TheKamakuraGardener

Күн бұрын

I’ll have to try that. 🙏🏿🤩🐶

That's a fantastic harvest,I harvest mine early because some animals were eating them..

@TheKamakuraGardener

4 күн бұрын

Have you tried covering them with netting? 🤔

Good morning Robert and Haru! 🌄😊

@TheKamakuraGardener

6 күн бұрын

Good morning Forrest! Have a pleasant weekend. 👍🏾🤩🐶

❤❤good morning I'm new here Robert the gadern is doing well fruiting I love it great inspiration.

@TheKamakuraGardener

4 күн бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏾 and welcome! 👍🏾🤩🐶

Happy 4th of July, Robert and Haru from Mississippi, U.S.A

@TheKamakuraGardener

21 сағат бұрын

Thanks 🙏🏿 and enjoy a safe weekend! 👍🏾🤩🐶

New subscriber enjoying your great content out in the garden looking to see what i can learn.

@TheKamakuraGardener

4 күн бұрын

Welcome GWIE! Thanks so much. 🙏🏾🤩🐶

Can you get Meyer 🍋lemons in Japan, Robert? They're my favorite. When I was still in my home, I'd make madeleines flavored with their juice & a little finely grated rind for special occasions. Guests loved them.

@TheKamakuraGardener

6 күн бұрын

I’ll have to check on that. 👍🏾🤩🐶

Such an amazing bountiful garden. Greetings from Southern CA grow zone 10b. You’ve created a peaceful and serene home. New subscriber here.

@TheKamakuraGardener

5 күн бұрын

Thanks and welcome Auntie! 🙏🏾👍🏾🤩🐶

@auntiesgarden4592

5 күн бұрын

@@TheKamakuraGardener Arigato

You take wonderful care with all your plants growing in the garden. Those dang pest can be annoying! I have squash bugs and cucumber beetles attacking my cucurbits...argh! Enjoy the bounty =)

@TheKamakuraGardener

5 күн бұрын

Thanks! Stay on your bug 🐛 patrol! 🙏🏾👍🏾🤩🐶

Hope you have a great weekend You definitely need a bigger garden😂

@TheKamakuraGardener

6 күн бұрын

🤣 I was just thinking about that too, Juergen! Have a great weekend. 👍🏾🤩🐶

Nice potato haul...enjoyed your video! New sub from NW Alabama

@TheKamakuraGardener

4 күн бұрын

Thank you Denise! Welcome to Kamakura. 🙏🏾🤩🐶

Hello Robert! Nice harvest from your garden, a little something from all the one's ripening. Very nice! I love the Home store. Lemon trees producing fresh lemons for cooking and drinks is the way to go. I love your shades! I've noticed that you have great taste in so many things. Awesome! Haru has the most beautiful big and round eyes! lol She is so adorable. Have a great weekend Robert! 🤩👍🐶

@TheKamakuraGardener

6 күн бұрын

Thank you David! I’m looking forward to tasting the first lemon 🍋! Have a great weekend. 👍🏾🤩🐶

@lisamanz6641

6 күн бұрын

Your garden looks fabulous and lots of food- awesome

@TheKamakuraGardener

6 күн бұрын

@lisamanz6641 Thank you Lisa! 🙏🏾🤩🐶

Thank you for sharing. I enjoyed this video. That's a lot of potatoes. I am curious to know why you put them to dry off? Have an amazing week ahead.

@TheKamakuraGardener

6 күн бұрын

Thanks Marcia! I dry the potatoes to toughen the skin so that they last longer. 👍🏾🤩🐶

This is amazing and sweet ❤New subscriber🎉

@TheKamakuraGardener

4 күн бұрын

Thank you! 🙏🏾 And welcome. 👍🏾🤩🐶

New Subscriber from Florida USA 🇺🇸 love your garden I have a backyard garden where u at ❤🎉

@TheKamakuraGardener

5 күн бұрын

Thanks and welcome! 🙏🏾🤩🐶

Good morning Robert and Haru 😊

@TheKamakuraGardener

6 күн бұрын

Good morning Annette! Have a wonderful day. 🙏🏾🤩🐶

@Heisstrong

6 күн бұрын

Good morning Annette! I hope all is going well! 👍

@annettegregg8654

6 күн бұрын

@@Heisstrong Good morning David. All good thank you. I hope you are well

@annettegregg8654

6 күн бұрын

@@TheKamakuraGardener Thank you Robert, enjoy your weekend 😊

@Heisstrong

6 күн бұрын

@@annettegregg8654 Yes, doing good also! Cheers!

Tomatoes hornworms eat tomato leaves. In nature this is not a problem because they prune the tomato plants. When we prune the tomato plants in a sense we interfere. Hornworms in general are of interest to me, because I was studying ways to garden in winter. Hornworms produce a type of moth that is very good at pollinating. They don't sting as bees do, so I selected a few for testing in what I call a "mini Chinese greenhouse". I selected the clearwing or bumblebee hawkmoth. This hornworm of the snowberry bush, an inedible decorative bush. I haven't been successful in luring them, probably because I have one small bush. Theoretically, the tomato hornworm or tobacco hornworm could be used, if you select only the male hawkmoth to release as pollinators. I have already tested the greenhouse, in a way. I only had a plastic popup greenhouse of 4 by 5. I kept my tropical plants in there through the winter. The Chinese greenhouse blanket, of which there are plenty of KZread videos is what made it work. It's a waterproof insulated blanket that goes over the greenhouse before sunset. This allows the greenhouse to retain its heat overnight. I kept a thermostat and it did keep it up to 20 degrees warmer. It worked most of the winter until we had a wind storm. I intend to test it again, but using hawkmoth as pollinators. I also intend to use a sand bucket on wheels, as sand can retain an enormous amount of heat and release it slowly. I intend to paint one metal bucket black, and add wheels so it can be positioned easily. I shall refashion a greenhouse blanket by stitching together some waterproof pet blankets. I may add columnar bubble wrap in between the blankets, with bamboo at ends so they are easier to roll up. The real Chinese Greenhouse blankets are made of heavy insulation or straw, but this would be far to heavy for me and my plastic greenhouse. The other aspect of growing in winter is light. WInter has less light here and more cloudy days. There are led streetlights that seem to emit more light than some grow lights. The red spectrum for fruiting plants can also be added. These are solar charging lights, and can alternate them between charging and run them to supplement daylight. Nightlights disturb the little bugs too much. I intend to hide the lights in some work of garden art exterior to the mini greenhouse. I saw one lady make a winding path and a bench with light fixtures on it, very cute. 🥰 I have very large tree white tree pots for my container garden. I will make a similar enclosure withe the bamboo I have, and greenhouse plastic. I will mulch around the base of the pot, and mound up the snow over the mulch, to insulate the base of the pot. 🤔. We shall see. Just know I don't really have time to do all of these things I ponder 😂 because I have to work. However, a garden girl has to dream. ❤ Diversity Love 💕

@TheKamakuraGardener

5 күн бұрын

Wow DL! 😃 That makes perfect sense; the horn worms 🐛 only eat the leaves, not the fruit. But if they eat too many leaves the plant could die. It’s all about balance in nature. I should also try growing indoors in winter to see if I can. Thanks so much. 🙏🏾👍🏾🤩🐶

Happy Sunday, where did you get the cover for the blueberries?

@TheKamakuraGardener

4 күн бұрын

Thanks! I got the blueberry cover from Amazon. A good price for five of them. 👍🏾🤩🐶

Hi Robert! You are doing an amazing job in your organic garden!!! Lovely. 😊🎉 You are really inspiring me to do much better with organic veggies. 🍅🌶🍒🍓🥬🥭🥦🌶

@TheKamakuraGardener

5 күн бұрын

Thank you Cheryl! 🙏🏾🤩🐶

Hello

@TheKamakuraGardener

4 күн бұрын

Hello Amarie! 👍🏾🤩🐶

I'll be in Japan in a couple of weeks it would be awesome if I could meet you if that's ok with you?

@TheKamakuraGardener

4 күн бұрын

Sure! Email me details about your timeline: thekamakuragardener@icloud.com 👍🏾🤩🐶

Are you in Japan, if so what part. My son is there.

@TheKamakuraGardener

5 күн бұрын

Yes, I’m just south of Yokohama and Tokyo in the city of Kamakura. Whereabouts is your son? 👍🏾🤩🐶