Gardening

With some hard work, you can grow tasty crops of your own.
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Gardening is a Skill in Palia with a Guild run by  Badruu. Gardening allows The Player to grow their own crops.

“	Gardening is all about growing your own crops at your home, which you can then use for home-cooked meals, pickles and jams, or selling directly! Badruu would be happy to provide soil and starter items, and once you’ve gotten comfortable with the basics, you can check out Zeki’s store for even more seeds.	”
–Almanac of Palia

Farming Mechanics

Gardening is a skill all about growing and harvesting crops to be used to sell, cook with, gift or even make more crops. During the quest Gardening 101, players receieve two Soil, a Makeshift Hoe and a Makeshift Watering Can.

Growing crops is a multi stage process.

Tilling Soil

Soil is placed in an appropriate spot on the player's home plot. Multiple soil tiles snap together to easily form a singular cohesive farmland. The Makeshift Hoe is then used to till the ground by holding left click ( on Switch) and dragging the hoe across the soil. Doing so will begin uncovering the squares used for planting crops in, once a tile has been sufficiently revealed, it will become an interactable tile that can hold one crop. There is a chance while tilling soil to uncover buried objects. Soil will revert to untilled state after 48h. If crop is growing on this tile, it will happen when harvesting that crop.

Acquiring Seeds

Seeds can be acquired by:

• Purchasing them from Zeki's General Store
• Converting harvested crops into seeds using the Seed Collector
• A small chance to get them from harvesting mature crops
• Receiving them as quest rewards
• Having an item request fulfilled
• Receiving them from Zeki's Wondrous Machine

Watering & Weeding

Once a crop is placed into a farming space, it must be watered each day to advance one stage. Crops not watered do not wither, but will remain at their current growth stage until watered. Crops must be watered before 6:00 AM, which is the time that crops advance a growth stage. The Tomato and Potato plants reduce the water required for adjacent plants. The Carrot and Onion seeds can prevent Weeds from growing on adjacent plants. Weeds have a chance to grow on the same tile as a crop, which must be removed for the crop to continue growing. Weeds can be sold for a small sum of gold coins, or kept for future purposes.

Harvesting

For the list of crops including values and growth times see Crops.

Once crops have advanced through sufficient days of growth (Listed on their respective seed packets) they become ready to harvest. They can be left ready to harvest until a time deemed appropriate. Crops have a slim chance to give seeds along with their harvest. Crops have a chance to be High-Quality, which increases their coin value.

Seed properties

Seeds have different buffs that affect nearby crops of other types which make the gardening process easier (e.g. onions' Weed Prevention). The affected crops are the ones directly connected to said crop - crops diagonal to said crop are therefore not affected. Crops only affect other types, meaning that tomatoes' Water Retain does not affect itself nor other nearby tomatoes. Benefits do not stack with Fertilizer. Blueberries and apples require multiple adjacent crops of the same benefit type to gain the benefits of those crops, but they do not need to all be on the same side.

Seed Type	Benefit	Plot Size
Tomato	Water Retain	1x1
Potato	Water Retain	1x1
Carrot	Weed Prevention	1x1
Onion	Weed Prevention	1x1
Cotton	Quality Boost	1x1
Wheat	Harvest Boost	1x1
Rice	Harvest Boost	1x1
Apple	Growth Boost	3x3 (9)
Blueberry	Growth Boost	2x2 (4)
Corn	Harvest Boost	1x1
Spicy Pepper	Quality Boost	2x2 (4)

Known issues with growth boost (as of 0.171):

• 2-day progress for bonus growth day is not saved, relogging or switching maps will reset it to 0.
• When bonus growth triggers, other bonuses are not applied for the second time. E.g. potato with harvest boost from adjacent crop or fertilizer will end with 4 day grow time (down from 5 with one bonus day) and 4/5 chance to get harvest boost.

Crops revenue comparison

Selling the crops after harvest will give you less income than processing them. This is a comparison of how much different products sell for. This does take into consideration that some products (seeds) can have varying amounts of inputs/outputs. This does not take into consideration, the amount of time that it takes to craft these items.

Crop	Input/Output Seeds	Seed Price	Sell Price		Preserved Sell Price		Seed Sell Price : Per Crop
			Regular	Quality	Regular	Quality	Regular	Quality
Carrot	1:4	15	23	34	34*	51*	7 :  28	10 :  40
Onion	1:4	20	30	45	45*	67*	10 :  40	15 :  60
Bok Choy	1:4	25	30	45	45	67	15 :  60*	22 :  88*
Potato	1:4	40	45	67	68	102	20 :  80*	30 :  120*
Tomato	3:2	80	23	34	34*	51*	40 :  26.66	60 :  40
Napa Cabbage	1:4	15	40	60	60*	90*	10 :  60*	15 :  90*
Wheat	1:4	25	33	49			12 :  48*	18 :  72*
Rice	1:4	23	27	40			11 :  44*	16 :  64*
Corn	1:4	30	40	60	60*	90*	15 :  60*	22 :  88
Cotton	1:3	40	45	67	48 (Fabric)		20 :  60*	30 :  90*
Spicy Pepper	4:2	170	32	48	48*	72*	85 :  42.5	127 :  63.5
Blueberry	4:2	45	39	58	59*	88*	112 :  56	168 :  84
Apple	10:1	280	64	96	96*	144*	700 :  70	1,050 :  105

*Price is the best option. Example: 10 Star Quality Apples would be better turned into Jam, than turning into 1 Star Quality Apple Seed.

Planning out your garden

Gardening can be a good source of income. To maximize that income it can be beneficial to plan out your garden, to make sure your crops benefit from the different bonusses each crop gives to the surrounding crops. .Aisen has created a very useful tool to plan out your garden; the Palia garden planner. Here you can select the size of your garden, the types of crops and the different types of fertilizer you might want to use, in order to find the perfect strategy for you.

Here is an example for a 3x3 garden, utilizing level 10 crops, but there are many others to be found on the internet, or you can ofcourse plan your own. The tool leans heavily on theorycrafting done by Arenvanya, who has written a very solid guide on the topic. Mind you, this guide does not take into account more recently added crops like corn and peppers, but it is still a good read to get upto speed on the more detailed mechanics of gardening in Palia.

Harvest quantities according to properties

Using other seeds properties, fertilizer and star quality seeds will modify the results of your harvest. See Harvest Quantities.

Accomplishments

Title	Requirements	Rewards
Advanced Gardener	Reach level 10 gardening	15 Renown, Bronze Gardening Trophy
Expert Gardener	Reach level 25 gardening	30 Renown, Silver Gardening Trophy
Master Gardener	Reach level 50 gardening	60 Renown, Gold Gardening Trophy
My First Tilling Discovery	Discover an item while tilling	5 Renown
Quality Carrot Harvester	Harvest 100 star quality Carrot	15 Renown
Quality Onion Harvester	Harvest 100 star quality Onion	15 Renown
Quality Potato Harvester	Harvest 100 star quality Potato	15 Renown
Quality Tomato Harvester	Harvest 100 star quality Tomato	15 Renown
Quality Wheat Harvester	Harvest 100 star quality Wheat	15 Renown
Quality Rice Harvester	Harvest 100 star quality Rice	15 Renown
Quality Blueberry Harvester	Harvest 100 star quality Blueberry	15 Renown
Quality Apple Harvester	Harvest 100 star quality Apple	15 Renown
Quality Cabbage Harvester	Harvest 100 star quality Napa Cabbage	15 Renown
Quality Bok Choy Harvester	Harvest 100 star quality Bok Choy	15 Renown
Weed Whacker	Pull weeds in your garden.	50 Renown
Crop Harvesting	Harvest crops.	210 Renown

Guild Store

Item	Cost	Skill Level
Soil  Limit:9	350 -  3,000	2
Seed Collector Recipe	100	2
Standard Watering Can Recipe	250	3
Standard Hoe Recipe	500	4
QualityUp Fertilizer Recipe	1,000	5
Fine Watering Can Recipe	1,500	6
Fine Hoe Recipe	1,500	7
Preserves Jar Recipe	2,500	8
Exquisite Watering Can Recipe	3,000	9
Exquisite Hoe Recipe	3,000	9
Blueberry Bush Seed	45	10
Apple Tree Seed	280	10
HarvestBoost Fertilizer	10	10
SpeedyGro Fertilizer	20	10
Gardener's Plaque	140	10
Tomato Vines Wallpaper	220	10
Well	1,120	15
Gardener's Cornucopia	560	15
Gardener's Growhouse	980	20

Associated Equipment

Soil

Soil

Watering Cans

Makeshift Watering Can

Standard Watering Can

Fine Watering Can

Exquisite Watering Can

Hoes

Makeshift Hoe

Standard Hoe

Fine Hoe

Exquisite Hoe

Fertilizer

QualityUp Fertilizer

HarvestBoost Fertilizer

SpeedyGro Fertilizer

WeedBlock Fertilizer

HydratePro Fertilizer

Crafters

Seed Collector

Preserves Jar

Weekly Challenges

Weekly Challenges are skill-related Accomplishments that a player can complete once weekly upon reaching Gardening Level 10. A player can complete up to 3 Weekly Challenges for Gardening each week, awarding a total of  100 Gardening Medals.

Weekly Challenges are currently the same every week, and reset every Monday at 4:00 AM UTC. Progress from uncompleted Challenges will carry over and count towards the following week.

Title	Requirement	Reward
Harvest Crops	Harvest 30 Crops	40 Gardening Medals
Harvest Star Quality Crops	Harvest 10 Star Quality Crops	30 Gardening Medals
Use Fertilizer	Use Fertilizer On Your Crops 30 Times	30 Gardening Medals