Elegant Japanese Wholefood cuisine from Urban Aussie gardens

Persimmons, Daikon, lotus root and salty umeboshi plums - for Japanese cuisine lovers, these are the easy-to-cook basics you could be growing and then relishing in your inner urban garden. Cecilia and her WWOOFer Lon Kazunori show Vasili the Greek how this household does it.


Daikon are famous for being 'pioneers' that help you break up tough soil in your garden. I see lotus growing in tubs on rooftop gardens in tokyo's summers, but still haven't glimpsed one, not even one, in Melbourne. Blue Lotus water gardens sell them, but at $80 per corm, maybe people are just to nervous they might fail.
Im trying one of my persimmons in a tub, and I'll let you know how it goes.