Field of “Rengeso”- Chinese milk vetch- in Japan

Once after in Japan of paddy harvest, rice farmers were sowing the seeds of Rengeso.

Rengeso field is spread in the spring, the roots became a natural fertilizer. Farmers from putting mix to soil the roots of Rengeso, it was a rice planting.

Rengeso in China native plant, bloom cute flower of lavender. 

The plant began to be used as fertilizer from the Edo period in Japan, the government when it comes to the Meiji era has encouraged its use.Now it has become more difficult to see.

The photograph is a field of Rengeso in the neighborhood. To become a May early rice planting will begin.