Bush rotation

Haha, well now it is official. The daikon radish were a failure. I picked the 2 biggest ones, and they are no bigger than my carrots.

Actually they are smaller

I think the reason is that the soil has very poor quality plus I started them too late so they didn't get enough sun.
Had a week off and nothing to do in the garden, so I did the only thing I could come up with: clean up the peppers, eggplants and tomatoes. Yes, although they did their best to keep on going, they finally gave in to the frost, which to be honest was not very severe. So their place will be unused until spring.
Lesson learned: pull up the vegetables much earlier even if they start re-blooming cause the harvest will be minimum and the place can instead be reused for winter crops earlier.
After the beds were cleaned I noticed how much the blueberry branches occupy, and decided to do something...

This is what it looked like before

Of course before doing anything I had to clean up the weeds and mini bamboo grass jungle that had formed around the bushes, to even be able to access the blueberry itself.

from the side. The branches pretty much cover the beds 

It took a while but I cut all the grass. I think the mini bamboo are starting to weaken after me cutting them down so many times... Could it be the roots will die in a few years if I keep on repeating this?

Without the weeds, you can see the blueberry bushes more clearly

The leftmost bush, the biggest of them all, is right next to the cherry tree. So I cannot pull it out with its roots as they pretty much share the same spot with the tree's roots. All I could do there was to tie the branches up with a rope and pull them up as hard as I could, bend them backwards and over to the cherry tree trunk's other side. So now they are not hanging over the beds anymore, and are pulled back with a rope, and are also supported backwards by the cherry trunk. Maybe in a couple of years those branches harden and take this new form...
The middle bush has its own spot, and I took the bold step and pulled it out with its roots (not all its roots but hopefully the major parts) and rotated it 180 degrees so now it is hanging upwards. Just hope the roots take hold again. We'll see next year if I managed to kill it or not.
The rightmost bush was not as much nuisance so I just tied up a couple of its branches and pulled upward.

tied up and rotated. Blueberry roots are wide and shallow

So now the beds underneath the bushes are more open and seem bigger. Hopefully I can use them better next year.

from the side. So clean.

We met up with the surveyor by the way, for putting in the border posts. There was not much to measure... he looked around for natural indicators of the boundaries, such as big trees or different growth, and with the two other owners in place it was easy to come up with spots that we all agreed.
One of the owners kind of knew which tree was part of which plot, so that helped too. Neither of us really minded that much to get as much margins as possible, and no one was interested in pushing the boundaries to gain a couple of extra centimeters so I think this method was fair. Finally the spots were defined and wooden posts put in place. They more or less ended up in the same spots as the selling real estate agent had marked, actually a bit farther away so now my plots are bigger than I thought.

One of the wooden posts. 

Next the surveyor will measure the distance between the posts and calculate roughly the areas, and get our hanko on agreement that these posts are OK. And then he will replace the wooden posts with concrete markers.
After that I can get to work. Finally.
Oh while we were there following the surveyor around I got to chat with the owner of a farm plot nearby, and it turned out he was not using his plot so he agreed to lend it to me for free so I can grow something on it. He said it is 1 tan which I think equals 1000 sqm. Yeay! A real flat farm plot with good soil and sun. Have to plan what to grow there by end of winter....
I have got an electric chainsaw now. After the forest boundaries are defined, I will start by cutting down all the bamboo, and put them sideways in the north side among the existing bamboo to keep them from rolling down. Then I shall rent a small excavator and dig out the roots. And then cover the whole area with sheets of carton to keep weeds and new bamboo from growing. After that it should be easy to keep the bamboo controlled.
Still haven't figured out a way to stop the roots from spreading into my plot again from north and south. Maybe dig a deep trench and fill with concrete?
After I have cleaned the plot, I will be planting fruit saplings while keeping the cardboard mulch between them. And I am also thinking of honey bees....