Hanko

Will go to the city hall this week to check what my registered inkan is allowed to look like. After that I will order one and register it.
Finally I shall have my own official stamp. Hooray?

Lemons

Many companies are legendary failures always on the brink of bankruptcy, because they have not figured out the relation between lemons and lemonade.
Their brilliant idea of progress is something along asking the employees to work harder than before by giving them less money than before. And year after year of doing this and making believe that everything is going well surely gives results.

Not pruning tomatoes

...then there is of course the school that believes pruning is not needed as it is a lot of effort that makes almost no difference, and some even say it is counterproductive as it increases the risk for various damages to plant and fruit. Most agree that pruning should not be done to determinate varieties. Some say only the bottom suckers should be pruned while some say the top suckers should be pruned while the bottom few are left alone.
I guess it is up to each and everyone to do what they believe is best...

Pruning tomatoes

I wonder... is there also a verb called tomatoing applicable to prunes?
Why pruning is important?
A tomato is a solar-powered sugar factory. For the first month or so, it doubles its size every 12 to 15 days. When the plant is 30 to 50 cm tall, its focus changes to branching and making flowers and fruit and the entire character of the tomato plant changes. If unsupported, the increasing weight of filling fruit and multiple side branches forces the plant to lie on the ground. Once the main stem is horizontal, there is an increased tendency to branch. Left to its own devices, a vigorous indeterminate tomato plant can easily cover a 2x2 meter area with as many as 10 stems, each 1-1.5 meter long. By season's end, it will be an unsightly, impenetrable, disease-wracked tangle.

With pruning, we want to maximize the efficiency of photosynthesis and minimize the risk of disease. Pruning ensures each leaf has plenty of room and is supported up off the ground. When a tomato plant lies on the ground, or when its growth is extremely dense, many of its leaves are forced into permanent shade, greatly reducing the amount of sugar they produce. If a leaf uses more sugar than it makes, eventually it will yellow and drop off. A pruned and staked plant will produce larger fruit two to three weeks earlier than a prostrate one.

Tomatoes

Lycopene is known for its many health benefits. Red tomatoes contain trans-lycopene and yellow tomatoes contain tetra-cis-lycopene. The antioxidant is equally potent in both forms but the human body is more readily able to absorb lycopene in the cis-form. Red tomatoes are more beneficial when heat processed. Yellow tomatoes are best raw.