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Farming Guide Mon Oct 17, 2011 10:30 am
Eshtaol
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This has been copied and pasted from old forums. If any information is out of date, THAT'S JUST TOO BAD. 
This guide is to share my farming routes/other information, for those people who have never really trained farming, or just don't know how.
Hopefully by the end of this guide and after a bit of advice, you'll have a nice green thumb like myself and Emmy (yes I am a FREAK! ^_^)
Contents:
Post 1 - Introduction and The Basics
Post 2 - Main farming patches and their locations and access
Post 3 - Seeds, levels and payment options
Post 4 - Farming strategies
Post 4 - Hints and Tips
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What you'll need to start off:
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Secateurs, Trowel, Spade, seed dribbler, Rake, Buckets (about 30-60+), Watering Can. All of which can be bought at a farming store.
All of these can be stored with your very own handy, dandy and slightly mentally challenged, Leprechaun, whom you can find at nearly any farming patch.
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Additional optional items include:
Amulet of farming (You can have as many as you can buy, and they're also available from any farming store), but pretty useless, unless you want to use it on a flower patch, and to be honest, why would you bother? Any alotment patches you plant you should really pay a farmer to look after if you're worried about it dying, and you can only use a farming amulet on one patch, and if you're utilising most of the alotment patches, it's not that helpful to only be able to watch one with the amulet.
Amulet of Nature: Untradable, and requires crafting to make, but you can request assistance from someone with the appropriate level.
This is really handy, especially for herbs, which you can't ask a farmer to look after for you. It will also tell you when your patch has finished growing, which is also great if you're chain farming.
Super Compost vs Normal Compost:
In my opinion, never bother with normal compost unless you've a really low farming level and you just want a bit of extra exp. Super compost takes about the same amount of time to make as normal, and as you can buy pineapples for 2gp each to make super compost, there's really not a price issue either. Also, in my experience, normal compost doesn't work that much better than no compost at all, so always go the super.
When you're just starting out with farming, the first thing you should probably do, is make youself some compost. 15 items are required to fill a compost bin, and once you fill it, you need to close it; it'll take about an hour to become useable compost. Then all you need to do is use a bucket on it to get 15 buckets of compost. There are 4 compost bins; one at each alotment patch. Using compost on your patches will both decrease the chance of disease, and increase the harvest. The items for making compost and super compost are as below:
Normal Compost: Pretty much any organic items that don't come under the super compost category, including weeds.
Super Compost: Pineapples, watermelons, Jangerberries+, any tree roots, Coconut husks, herbs Avantoe+, etc.
If you're not sure whether something will make compost or super compost, simply use it on a farmer at an allotment patch.
Paying Farmers:
At nearly any patch, you'll see a farmer wandering aimlessly around. If you don't want your nearby crops to die, they can usually look after them for you, for a price (See post 3 for more details). Most patches you'll be able to pay a farmer to look after, except flower, herb and special patches (excluding Calquat and Spirit Trees). In my opinion, you should pay a farmer to look after any seeds that are either expensive or you can't afford to lose, or that the payment price largely exceeds the value of the seeds. I highly recomment paying for all trees, probably with the exception of banana trees. Even if you're paying a farmer, you should still use supercompost on any crop that has a variable harvest (you shouldn't waste it on trees, bushes, etc that you've payed a farmer to look after).
Planting Trees:
To plant a tree or fruit tree, you'll need a tree seed, plant pot, trowel and watering can. Simply use the seed on the plant pot, water it, and it'll grow into a sapling. Then, all you have to do is use the sapling on the appropriate empty patch, and you're done. When it's grown and you want to plant something new, just cut it down, use a spade on the stump, and it's fresh for another plant.
A simple trick to save pots; one you've planted your tree, just use the empty pot on the patch with a trowel in your inventory, and you'll fill it up again and ready for a new sapling.
This guide is to share my farming routes/other information, for those people who have never really trained farming, or just don't know how.
Hopefully by the end of this guide and after a bit of advice, you'll have a nice green thumb like myself and Emmy (yes I am a FREAK! ^_^)
Contents:
Post 1 - Introduction and The Basics
Post 2 - Main farming patches and their locations and access
Post 3 - Seeds, levels and payment options
Post 4 - Farming strategies
Post 4 - Hints and Tips
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What you'll need to start off:
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Secateurs, Trowel, Spade, seed dribbler, Rake, Buckets (about 30-60+), Watering Can. All of which can be bought at a farming store.
All of these can be stored with your very own handy, dandy and slightly mentally challenged, Leprechaun, whom you can find at nearly any farming patch.
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Additional optional items include:
Amulet of farming (You can have as many as you can buy, and they're also available from any farming store), but pretty useless, unless you want to use it on a flower patch, and to be honest, why would you bother? Any alotment patches you plant you should really pay a farmer to look after if you're worried about it dying, and you can only use a farming amulet on one patch, and if you're utilising most of the alotment patches, it's not that helpful to only be able to watch one with the amulet.
Amulet of Nature: Untradable, and requires crafting to make, but you can request assistance from someone with the appropriate level.
This is really handy, especially for herbs, which you can't ask a farmer to look after for you. It will also tell you when your patch has finished growing, which is also great if you're chain farming.
Super Compost vs Normal Compost:
In my opinion, never bother with normal compost unless you've a really low farming level and you just want a bit of extra exp. Super compost takes about the same amount of time to make as normal, and as you can buy pineapples for 2gp each to make super compost, there's really not a price issue either. Also, in my experience, normal compost doesn't work that much better than no compost at all, so always go the super.
When you're just starting out with farming, the first thing you should probably do, is make youself some compost. 15 items are required to fill a compost bin, and once you fill it, you need to close it; it'll take about an hour to become useable compost. Then all you need to do is use a bucket on it to get 15 buckets of compost. There are 4 compost bins; one at each alotment patch. Using compost on your patches will both decrease the chance of disease, and increase the harvest. The items for making compost and super compost are as below:
Normal Compost: Pretty much any organic items that don't come under the super compost category, including weeds.
Super Compost: Pineapples, watermelons, Jangerberries+, any tree roots, Coconut husks, herbs Avantoe+, etc.
If you're not sure whether something will make compost or super compost, simply use it on a farmer at an allotment patch.
Paying Farmers:
At nearly any patch, you'll see a farmer wandering aimlessly around. If you don't want your nearby crops to die, they can usually look after them for you, for a price (See post 3 for more details). Most patches you'll be able to pay a farmer to look after, except flower, herb and special patches (excluding Calquat and Spirit Trees). In my opinion, you should pay a farmer to look after any seeds that are either expensive or you can't afford to lose, or that the payment price largely exceeds the value of the seeds. I highly recomment paying for all trees, probably with the exception of banana trees. Even if you're paying a farmer, you should still use supercompost on any crop that has a variable harvest (you shouldn't waste it on trees, bushes, etc that you've payed a farmer to look after).
Planting Trees:
To plant a tree or fruit tree, you'll need a tree seed, plant pot, trowel and watering can. Simply use the seed on the plant pot, water it, and it'll grow into a sapling. Then, all you have to do is use the sapling on the appropriate empty patch, and you're done. When it's grown and you want to plant something new, just cut it down, use a spade on the stump, and it's fresh for another plant.
A simple trick to save pots; one you've planted your tree, just use the empty pot on the patch with a trowel in your inventory, and you'll fill it up again and ready for a new sapling.
