Farming for a new farm

A day on the farm

Till, then plant. Water the tile the same day if you want that night to count. The printed growth time does not include the planting day. Unwatered crops stay alive and simply skip the night. One fertilizer per tile. Crows eat crops when more than 15 are growing and no scarecrow covers them.

A scarecrow is a Farming level 1 craft: 50 wood, 1 coal, 20 fiber. It covers 249 tiles, counting its own tile, 8 tiles north, south, east, and west, and 6 tiles along each diagonal. Wild seeds are not attacked. The greenhouse and the Ginger Island farm have no crows.

Year 1, season by season

Spring starts at Pierre's. Parsnip seeds are 20g and finish in 4 days, which is the right crop while you are still learning the water loop. Cauliflower is 80g and 12 days. Strawberries are 100g at the Egg Festival and then regrow every 4 days. Save some gold for that stall. Garlic, red cabbage, and artichoke are year 2 seeds at Pierre's.

Summer is blueberries if you want many small fruits, melon if you want one big fruit, and hops if you want a keg running. Starfruit seeds are 400g at the Oasis once the bus is repaired. Fall is cranberries at 240g a packet, pumpkin at 100g, and a Rare Seed from the Traveling Cart if you saw one in Spring or Summer for 1,000g.

Winter outdoors is powdermelon, Winter Seeds, and fiber. The repair that matters for income is the greenhouse: Pantry bundles, or 35,000g at Joja. After that, Ancient Fruit and Starfruit are no longer tied to the calendar.

• Spring table
• Summer table
• Fall table
• Winter plantings
• Strawberry
• Greenhouse

Farming skill

Harvesting crops raises Farming. Petting, milking, shearing, or picking up an animal product in the barn or coop gives 5 XP. Using the hoe or the watering can does not, by itself. Each level adds proficiency to those two tools.

Level 1 is the scarecrow and Basic Fertilizer. Level 3 is Speed-Gro. Level 4 is the preserves jar. Level 5 is a choice: Rancher, animal products worth 20% more, or Tiller, crops worth 10% more. Level 8 is the keg and Deluxe Speed-Gro. Level 9 is the Seed Maker, the iridium sprinkler, and Quality Fertilizer. Level 10 on the Tiller path is Artisan, artisan goods worth 40% more, or Agriculturist, crops grow 10% faster.

Crops that drop several items at once, such as blueberries, cranberries, and potatoes, grant harvest XP for the first item only. Repeat harvests each grant XP again.

• Fertilizer and quality
• What Tiller and Artisan change
• Gifts, once the farm is feeding you