玄関への道を塞いでる多くの柿の実

　父の時代から我が家では、柿沼家の象徴として「柿の木」が植えてあります。しかし、味は私に似て若干渋かったです。このため、３年前に思い切って幹を剪定し、新芽を育てたところ、新芽がすくすく成長し、早くも昨秋はかなり実が生りました。そしたら何と、嬉しいことに今度は甘柿に変わったのです。物事は試してみるものです。

　今年、樹木が更に成長したら、ご覧の通り、枝が未だ細いのに推定８０個も実ってます。このため、枝が可成り低くまで垂れ下がってます。これは根が以前のままで、養分をたくさん吸い上げたからでしょう。しかし、実は困ったことが起きたのです。

　この枝が低く垂れ下がった場所が庭先から玄関への通路の真上なのです。これでは、来客時に、柿が客の頭に当たってしまいます。今後、実が成長すれば更に垂れ下がり、今度は顔に当たってしまいます。写真の２本の枝がそれです。

　折角、甘くてたくさん生ったので切り落とすわけにはいかず、考えた挙句、この枝を紐で他の樹木に両端から引っ張り、通路を開けることにしました。これで来客はスムースに玄関まで通過でき、秋には甘い柿が食べられます。今日は、その作業をします。秋になり味見したい方は遠慮なくいらして下さい。

Dear my friends who like persimmon

　Since my diseased father's era, we have had a persimmon tree planted in my garden as a symbol of the Kakinuma family. As you know, Kakinuma means Persimmon Marsh. However, the taste was a little astringent similar to me. For this reason, I decided to prune the trunk three years ago, then the new shoot grew. The shoot grew quickly and produced a lot of fruit already last fall. Then, to my delight, they turned into sweet persimmons. We should try out various way.

　This year, the tree grew even more, and as you can see, even though the branches are still thin, there are an estimated 80 fruit. Because of this, the branches hang down quite low. This is probably because the roots are still the same as before and have absorbed a lot of nutrients. However, in fact, something troublesome has happened.

　The place where this branch hangs down so low is directly above the walkway from the garden to the entrance. When guests come over, the persimmons will hit them on the head. If the fruit grows in the near future, it will hang down even lower and then they hit guest's face. The two in the photo are those branches.

　As the persimmons are so sweet and plentiful, I couldn't cut them off, so after some thought, I decided to use a string to pull the branch from both sides to other trees, creating an access path. This will allow visitors to pass through smoothly to the entrance. In the autumn we will be able to taste the sweet persimmons. So I will work today. If anyone would like to try to taste in the autumn, please visit my garden without hesitation.

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