Job's Tears Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

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Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

Guides

• Sowing Job's Tears: Which Form You Are Growing, Warm Soil and a Long Season
• Job's Tears Care: Keeping a Wetland Grass Wet, Fed Lightly and Standing Up
• Job's Tears Growing Calendar: Five Months From Warm Soil to Cured Beads
• Job's Tears Problems: Smut, Stem Borers, Birds, Lodging and Beads That Never Harden
• Harvesting Job's Tears: Picking Beads Off the Stem As They Harden and Change Color
• Curing Job's Tears: Drying Beads Down Hard, Hulling the Grain Form and Storing Both

Pests and diseases (4)

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.