Have any of you ever rented a share field/allotment here? What was your experience like? I've seen a couple locally occasionally accepting applications and I'm considering it in the future.
There's some vegetables and herbs that I can't buy so easily here or not very often and sometimes I really miss or crave them. A family friend grew me one of the herbs that I'd been missing for a while and I was finally able to cook some on my grandmother's recipes and it really meant the world to me.
I've often thought about starting to grow some of the vegetables I'm missing both for myself and for other foreigners in my area who might be missing those flavours too.
On that note, I'm likely to be planting vegetables or varieties that are uncommon in Japan and as such typically don't have so many resources and growing guides for the seasons here, in Japanese or otherwise. Has anyone found a good correlation chart between Japan's climate and Western climate guides? I know the US has those different zones but I don't know much about them because I'm from the UK but if one of those would be similar to Japan's climate it could be useful. The UK's seasons are a pretty good match to my area here but the summers are a lot longer and hotter here and we get more snow in the winter. I'm wondering if I follow UK growing guidelines how much I'll need to adjust planting/harvesting times etc.
Anyone have much experience with this?
by Kimiko__Aki