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-What are some of the best things to grow?

Spring Year 1 - start with turnips, then after you harvest them, dump all your resulting money into potatoes. Potatoes generate multiple crops per seed when harvested and grow quick, so they get you cash fast.

Hold on to your cash until the Egg Festival. Spend everything you can on strawberry seeds. Then plant them and harvest multiple times until the end of the season.

My usual cycle is strawberries in spring, blueberries in summer, cranberries in fall. You can save some strawberries from your harvests and use a seed maker to make seeds so you can plant them day 1 in Spring of Year 2. These will be your main money generators if you plant enough.

Two other considerations - in Spring and Summer, you can visit the Trader on Fri and Sun, and he sells Rare Seeds for 1000 each. Buy as many as you can as often as you can, then plant them in Fall. You need one of them to get a Stardrop, but they also have the largest profit margin of any plant you can grow. You'll get a huge windfall towards the end of Fall if you plant as many as you can (depending on how lucky you are, and how much free cash you have, you might be able to plant as many as 25 in a given year).

You may also want to find some Ancient Seeds. They're hard to find and entirely RNG-based, but if you dig enough worm spots or fish enough you might find one. The seed maker can also generate some by accident (and if you run a few dozen strawberries through seed makers to get seeds, you'll have a good chance of getting one then). Once you have one, don't plant it until you have a working greenhouse. Once you do, plant them in there, and as soon as the plant produces a fruit (it takes about a month), immediately feed the fruit back into the seed maker (which will give you 1-4 new seeds). Plant those in the greenhouse. Keep repeating this until the greenhouse fills with Ancient Fruit plants - depending on how you irrigate, you can have about 100 or so. These are pretty much the most lucrative crop you can grow (and if you use Kegs to turn them into wine and casks to age the wine, you vastly increase that profit).

My usual strategy once I have a greenhouse is to start with berries, constantly growing and harvesting to maximize income, until I get an Ancient Seed, at which point I slowly start to replace the berry bushes with Ancient Fruit.

You'll also want to plant other things, though, for doing occasional bulletin board missions as well as filling out collections in the community center. You'll want gold-star turnips, melons, corn, and pumpkins (only 3 out of the 4, but you need 5 of each one), which you can get with fertilizer. Caroline asks for a pumpkin at one point, Marnie will eventually want amaranth, and other people will ask for other things randomly. If you plant a couple of each plant type on the side, you should have enough of whatever you need for important things.


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