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Water the garden, pick fruit in the orchard

Tomatoes, strawberries, corn and fruit trees: a splash from the watering can helps your plants grow, and your trees fruit again after every harvest.

Entry 04 · Farming2 min readBy Cabane · TONAYR

A red barn, hay bales and a small vegetable patch.
The farm: a red barn with a sliding door, some hay and a patch of crops.

One splash from a full watering can, and every plant around the one you aim at grows by a stage. Your crops have four stages, from seedling to harvest. Without the watering can they grow too, at their own pace and with a bit of luck involved: two seeds planted on the same day will not always ripen together.

Sow your vegetable patch

On the menu: tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, strawberries and corn. Short on seeds? Bazar the snail sometimes sells them at his stall.

Mark out a small patch beside the path. One row may stay tiny while the next is already turning red, and that is fine! Each plant grows in its own time.

Bring out the watering can

Fill the watering can with water, then aim at a plant: it waters a three-by-three square around it. The water stays on the same level of ground, so for terraced crops, water each level.

A ripe plant stops growing. You can water a row of mixed stages without wasting anything: only the plants with room left to grow move on.

A character using a watering can over a patch of young plants, next to a small pond.

Watering by the pond. Drops fall on the plants you aim at, big and small mixed together.

Between visits, your crops keep growing on their own. Trees take longer than vegetables. And if you play with friends, everyone sees the same garden grow.

Plant an orchard

Apple, orange, cherry and pear trees all fit in beside the vegetable patch. Leave room above a young tree: a block in the way can stop it growing taller.

Pick the fruit and the tree stays put. It goes back to the stage just before fruiting and starts producing again. Your orchard is planted once and for all, with paths between the trees and the vegetables in the next plot over.

Set up the barn

The farm has its own furniture too: round hay bales, haystacks, a pitchfork and a big sliding barn door. When you open it, the panel slides to one side. Leave it room along the wall without blocking the way to the garden.

Your first seeds are waiting for you at game.playcabane.com.