投稿の詳細: あの野菜　The vegetable.

りんご畑の片隅を借りて
8月に植えたあの野菜。
ようやく花が咲き始めた。

雄花を切り取って雌花に
人工授粉。雌しべに均等
につけないと変形してしまう。
りんごも同じで、ちょっと形
がいびつなのは受粉が雌しべ
に均等になされなかったもの
なのです。そういうりんごは
切ってみると種が均等に
入っていませんね。

ですから注意して
受粉させます。訪花昆虫
による受粉も可能ですが
受粉の確度を高めるために
やる作業。
そうして今度は袋掛け。
何でもつくる
のには手がかかるのです。

The vegetable that I planted
in August in a corner of
rented apple orchard has
started flowering.

I remove a male flower and
put it to the female flower
for pollenation. I have to put
the pollen to the pistils evenly
otherwise the final produce
will be deformed. You may have
seen a defromed apple which is not
evely round. That deformation is
made by such uneven pollenation.
When cut, the apple does not
have seeds evenly scattered.

So I have to pay attention
when doing pollenation by hand.
Of course the insects can do it
but in order to ensure the pollenation
we need to do it by hand.　Then I have
to wrap baby vege one by one.
Any vegetable
need such minute care somehow.