This is the back garden of my house in Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan. Satoshi Manor. It’s starting to come together quite nicely.
I’ve always been the kind of person who likes to learn things my own way. I’d rather try something and have it fail than have someone tell me something is going to fail. With gardening, it has always been that way for me. I try to learn from the land itself, try to use what is there, try to see what works and what doesn’t.
I’ve had a bunch of gardens and most of them have produced a surprising abundance of food even though I don’t do things the way I see others doing. I’m like that with other things too - art, guitar, writing, business.
The world hates when people like me do things like this. No one gets more upset than some expert who tells me a better way to weave a fence, a better way to germinate seeds, or a better way to prepare the ground.
I won’t be surprised if my garden has big problems as a result of my lazy man’s way of learning. I don’t even remember what seeds I planted where, In a few cases I was like - oh, I’ll plant some seeds in between the furrows too.
It’s likely that I will be gone from my house for part of the growing season, so I’m trying to account for how that will work too. This whole thing was a big junkyard overgrown with decades worth of weeds and all the neighbors trash in it less than a year ago.
At this point, I’ve turned it into a little bit of paradise - at least my definition of paradise. I’m hoping I can come up with a natural way to control the mosquito and bug populations. I’m working on it.
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