Compare replanting costs and payback before committing your garden space.
Once you can afford one, start with a multi-harvest plant and leave some space for cheap single-harvest crops. The first can produce again without buying a seed each time; the second is useful when cash is tight or you want to change what you grow. Strawberries and blueberries are common multi-harvest examples; carrots are single-harvest.
What happens after picking?
| Single harvest | Multi-harvest | |
|---|---|---|
| After harvest | That plant is finished; replanting needs another seed | The plant remains and can produce pickable fruit again |
| Main cost | A new seed each cycle | The initial seed purchase, then waiting for more fruit |
| Useful when | Cash is limited, you want a short cycle or you may switch crops | You can spare the space and return for repeated harvests |
Don't compare only one fruit's sale price. Add up a multi-harvest plant's actual sales to see when it pays back its seed; for a single-harvest crop, subtract the seed cost each cycle. Weight, mutations and updates can change the actual sale price.
A quick payback example
Suppose a multi-harvest seed costs 50 Sheckles and each harvest sells for 10 Sheckles in total. At that rate, five harvests recover the seed cost: 50 ÷ 10 = 5. These are illustrative numbers, not a particular crop's prices, and the calculation excludes waiting time.
For a single-harvest seed that costs 10 and sells for 20, the gross profit is 20 − 10 = 10 for that cycle; another cycle needs another seed. Crops can differ in growth time and yield, so one sale price alone does not prove which earns more per minute.
When space is tight
Keep the affordable multi-harvest plants you will return to pick, and leave a small space for an available single-harvest crop. Adjust when you need to switch, and don't spend the next planting budget on an expensive seed. Before removing a plant, check the in-game action and its cost.
Sources: community crop and harvest types, official experience.
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