🪴 Garden Work in Japan: First Pea Planting of 2026 with Bamboo Trellis – Japan Garden

🪴 This is an unedited, real-time gardening video filmed in Shizuoka, Japan. The camera is left running for about an hour as I plant my first garden peas of 2026 and begin building a simple bamboo trellis to support them. There is no narration—only natural outdoor sounds.

Two weeks into January, I plant four pea starts, spaced roughly two feet apart, setting them into a carefully tended garden plot behind my house. After planting, I begin constructing a lattice using bamboo poles and antique hemp rope purchased earlier, laying out the structure the plants will eventually climb as the weather warms.

This is the second planting in this particular plot since I bought the house, part of a slow and deliberate effort to restore and work the land season by season. The work is unhurried and practical, focused on preparation rather than results, with spring still some distance away.

Kurt Bell is a retired American writer living in the Japanese countryside. From an old akiya house beside the Yoshida River, he records quiet, real-time moments of garden work, seasonal planting, and everyday life in rural Japan. Japan Garden is intended for calm viewing, focus, rest, or simple companionship with a real place as time passes.

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