View from the Roof

Although our address is Tokyo, one of the biggest cities in the world, we have a lot of open spaces in our area. This is the view from our roof garden. The fields behind our house are farmed. In the first picture you can see the farmer working. Can you tell what vegetable he's pulling?

Notice his small truck. The crop on the far side of the truck is corn. This picture was taken several weeks ago so the corn is a lot bigger and he has planted other things, too. The purple plants are purple shiso. The next picture is the view toward the street. That's a big black crow in the field. The plants in the foreground are potato plants. There are many truck farmers in our neighborhood.