Farming Crops

How to Grow Crops

To successfully grow crops, you need to train your cooking skill up at least into the 70s or what you plant will always turn to weeds. The higher your cooking skill the lower the chance of having your crops turn to weeds.

To grow crops, you need to acquire seeds from a Farmer NPC. You can find farmers in many towns and in some custom areas like the taming forest. The seeds available currently for growing are: onions, garlic, lettuce, corn, cabbage, carrots, cotton, and flax.

Note: If you see fields of pumpkins, squash and other such items, look carefully, those vines are probably locked down parasitic plants and the pumpkins and squash are locked down as well. Actual farmed fields have crops you can double click to harvest and are not locked down. If you want to make one of these fields, you need to lock down your vines and squash items, raise them twice with the deco tool, and then place plantable soil beneath them--I'll explain plantable soil in a moment.

So, let us pretend you have seeds and cooking skill and you want to grow some crops. You can find a public field outside a town and if there is a spot empty, grow your crops there. However, you can only harvest your own crops and most public fields are filled up with long-abandoned crops from other players. So, your best bet is to grow them at home.

To grow crops at home, you will need to place plantable soil from the yard wand somewhere in your yard area or in your home. Since crops do not require lock downs, you can grow them outside in your home up to 2 squares out on the side yards or up to 4 squares out in the front yard.

To find the plantable soil option, double click the yard wand in your back pack (yard wands are purchased from the blue token stone in Trinsic), click the lower blue circle on the left hand side - the Ground Tiles section, click the first of four dots on the top row menu which starts with Short Bush 1, and arrow over all the way to the end of the menu. Plantable soil is the last option and it costs 30,000 gold each.

Once you lay out your square or squares of plantable soil, stand on each one, and click one of the seeds in your backpack. This will start a crop seedling. The seedling can take several hours to mature and even if you plant all your crops at the same time they will probably not all mature at the same time. So, be patient.

Harvesting Crops

Different crops yield different crop amounts. Once you have harvest all of the crops from a mature plant that it can yield, it will ask if you want to destroy the plant. Click cancel, unless you really want to get rid of it. Some examples are: corn yields 3 crops, carrots yield 6 crops, lettuce or cabbage yields 1 crop each, and flax or cotton yields 10 crops each. You do not get all of them on the first try usually, so you have to repeat your harvest attempts till you gather that crop's max harvest.

Note: If you accidentally grow some weeds, just click them as if to harvest them and you'll pull up the weeds to free up the plot for a new crop.

If you are a tailor, I highly recommend growing your own flax. It is very pretty to grow. Cotton sprawls kind of funny from where the plant begins, but sometimes you specifically need cotton for deco. Cotton saves on tailor keys as it is. Flax saves on tailor keys as wool.

--Viola 05:50, 21 November 2011 (UTC)