I'm a small organic farmer (looks a lot like playing your first Spring in Stardew Valley) and here are some thoughts I have on the crops already in-game: Kale: Kale is not a "one and one" like cabbage or cauliflower. The plant grows a tall upright stalk about nipple-high, and the leaves are cut from it individually, and can be harvested from for MONTHS. It can be grown equally well in the spring and the fall. Strawberry: Although it's always been a Spring crop in HM, these plants do not reliably bear fruit until summer. Blueberry: these are a perennial; they do not really produce a cropload of fruit until their second year, but I understand it would be weird to have "bushes" in addition to trees, which is really how blackberries and blueberries grow. Corn: Corn is almost always planted for a single harvest. It takes forever to produce, and produces a tonne once it's ready, but most farmers harvest from a plant once or twice and then cut it down. Melon/Pumpkin: technically these plants produce for quite a while, producing several fruits that ripen over time for multiple harvests. Radish: Radishes are a spring crop. Period. Plant them in the summer and they will go to seed before you can harvest them. They hate summer heat. Beet: Beets are a Spring/Summer crop. Bok Choy/Cabbage: Can be planted in Spring or Fall. Eggplant: Is a summer crop, and is usually planted at the exact same time as peppers and tomatoes, which are their cousins. I'm just tellin' @ConcernedApe what life is really like on a farm in a temperate zone (these times are just as valid for a farm in Wisconsin as they are for a farm in North Carolina).
i think the crop times were based more on Harvest Moon who had to fiddle with a 4 month year rather than a 12 so some substantial wiggle room was needed. However, some realism would have been nice. That and the return of Harvest Moon's corn. It looked like a specific part of male anatomy that the forum's word filter catches. I miss that.
Really neat, thanks for sharing. I like the idea of crops that take 2 years before the bare more fruit. Hops and grapes are like this as well (basically all vine plants). Likewise a crop like strawberries having to be planted in the spring and harvested in the summer would be neat. You'd have to manage your long term investments. I also like the idea of corn being a one time crop that produced a BUNCH. Likewise, crops that can be grown all year would be neat. I'd like to use melon and pumpkins fixed to produce multiple.
not the yellow ones! there was a few games that had green ones that when they were ready to pick they looked decisively like male anatomy! complete with shaft and glans! there was a lot of giggling about it on the forums for a while ^_^
I'm laughing at how fast an innocent conversation about food can turn into something entirely else, like genitalia.
Also cranberries grow in a bog along with rice. They feel pretty funky as is. I suggest when you plant them the ground tile changes to a mini swampy water tile.
could be the local name for something that we have a different name for. some berries are pretty shiny like small gems!
Psst, hey. I'll let you in on Stardew Valley's secret trade. Grow starfruit in the summer then bring them to Leah after midnight. She'll bore, cut and paint them purple. Sell 'em to Krobus who then marks it up 2,000%. All the rest of these suckers spend 20K on one and you get a nice cut. Tell no one or else. Deal?
