Yakuza: Like A Dragon gardening: How to plant and harvest crops and all gardening locations
How to get green fingers.
Want to learn more about gardening in Yakuza: Like a Dragon? Yakuza: Like a Dragon has a variety of side activities that you can enjoy around Yokohama, including bug catching, business management, and gardening. Gardening is crucial if you want to craft healing items, and it can also save you some Yen while trying to build romantic relationships.
In this guide, we'll break down how to do gardening in Yakuza: Like a Dragon. We'll also point out the four gardening locations that you can unlock during the story, and break down where to find recipes that require your plants and herbs.
How to do gardening in Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Towards the beginning of Chapter 4 you'll reach Survive Bar and meet bartender Iroha. After a lovely chat, you'll be introduced to two planters outside the main entrance and you'll be encouraged to plant some seeds.
To plant seeds, simply wander up to a planter, select which seeds you'd like to plant, select if you'd like to use fertiliser (more on this in a sec), and plant away. If you've not got any fertiliser, it'll say "Begin DIY Harvest" which sounds terrible, but it's totally fine. A little timer will pop up above your planted seeds. Without fertiliser you'll often have to wait roughly 15 minutes or so before you can harvest. With fertiliser these times can be cut down significantly.
Fertiliser is something you can buy from convenience stores, or it'll be a drop in dungeon sequences. If you choose to plant your seeds with fertiliser it'll reduce the amount of waiting around needed before you can harvest your crop. Plus, it'll increase the amount of stuff you'll harvest. There are different tiers of fertiliser, and as you'd expect, the rarer, the more effective the end result.
As you progress from here more planters will open up across Yokohama and you'll be able to plant and harvest a variety of vegetables, flowers, and trees to craft healing items and gifts to further romances. You'll only have access to one or two planters for a little while, but once you've hit the start of Chapter 7 you'll have four locations across Yokohama to plant your seeds.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon gardening locations
Right at the start of Chapter 4 you'll have a very limited selection of planters as parts of the map will be restricted. Once you've reached the start of Chapter 7, though, you should be at a point where you've pretty much got them all.
The map above shows the four gardening locations that are available upon reaching chapter 7 in Yakuza: Like a Dragon.
Where to find gardening recipes in Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Speak to the bartender at Survive Bar and he's able to craft a host of healing items out of your harvested goods. What sets them apart from the usual Staminan X and Tauriners is their strength; his recipes are strong. We're talking huge party-wide healing as well as MP replenishment. Oh, and revive potions, ailments and so on.
The barkeep's also able to create bouquets out of the flowers you grow which can be gifted to many of the romance options in Yakuza: Like a Dragon.
That covers everything you need to know about gardening in Yakuza: Like a Dragon. If you want to get rid of the greenery and instead see your bank balance turn green, check out our guide on how to make money fast in Yakuza: Like a Dragon. You can also earn money by finding all the Kappa Statues and all the missing cat locations in Yakuza: Like a Dragon.