Mochi Rice

Planting mochi rice. We were able to borrow a field further away from other people's, so we are doing it without water in the field. If we tried that in our normal field it would be "meiwaku" (troublesome) to the other people. Don't ask me why or in what way it would trouble them. I have exhausted my tiny brain trying to figure it out.

We will also be planting soy beans in between rice rows. The only problem, which Tomoe learned while chatting with neighbors in the bath last night, is that since that was originally a "regular" rice field, its water retention is too good. If we try to do it "dry" it risks being flooded when the rain comes, because there is a layer of clay below the field.