Bean Starter

Bean Starter

Type	Seed
Grows	Green Bean
Season	Spring
Growth Time	10 Days
Pierre	60g
JojaMart	75g
Cart	100 to 1,000g
Sell Price	30g

Bean Starter is the item that puts a trellis of Green Bean on the farm. It is one of the few Spring purchases that only has to be made once, because the vine keeps bearing pods until the season runs out. Pierre's General Store is the cheapest counter for it, and the Magic Shop Boat at the Night Market offers the same deal a whole Winter in advance. Treasure rooms deep in the Skull Cavern hand out stacks of it for nothing at all. The two things worth getting right are the sowing date and the walking lanes, because a trellis tile cannot be stepped over.

The in-game description reads: Plant these in the spring. Takes 10 days to mature, but keeps producing after that. Grows on a trellis.

Growing

A starter sown into watered soil spends a week and a half climbing before the first pods are ready. After that the vine renews itself every third day and carries on until Spring ends. A vine put in on the first morning of Spring gives six pickings in all.

The calendar is what decides whether a starter pays. Every few days of delay quietly removes one picking from the total. Sowing on the fifteenth of Spring still brings two harvests, which is roughly what the General Store charges for the starter. A starter planted later than that will not earn its price back before the season turns, and the eighteenth is the last date on which a vine can reach maturity at all.

The seasons each run twenty-eight days, and a crop that cannot finish in time simply withers where it stands. Ripe pods left on the vine are lost the same way, so the final sweep of the field belongs on the last day of Spring rather than the first day of Summer. Inside the Greenhouse that deadline disappears, which turns a single starter into a permanent supply.

Green Bean climbs a trellis, and the tile it stands on is solid from the first sprout to the last pod. A square block of beans walls itself in and leaves the middle rows unreachable. Keeping every second row clear, or matching the rows to the reach of a sprinkler, keeps every vine within arm's length. The frames go brittle once the season changes, and dead vines can be walked straight through.

Buying

Pierre's General Store keeps Bean Starter on the Spring shelf, and JojaMart lists the same item at a higher asking price. For a first Spring the General Store is simply the better counter, and nothing about the Joja version grows any faster.

The Night Market is the clever alternative. The Magic Shop Boat moors at the beach docks on the fifteenth of Winter, and its Spring seed selection that night includes Bean Starter at the General Store's own price. Buying there means the starters are already sitting in a chest when Spring arrives, which saves a trip into town on the busiest morning of the farming year. The boat changes its stock every night of the festival, so the Spring seeds are a one-evening opportunity.

The Traveling Cart stands in Cindersap Forest two days a week, Friday and Sunday, and she also parks on a raft at the Night Market. Her stock is drawn at random and her prices run far above what any shop charges, so the cart is a route of last resort for something Pierre sells openly.

Free starters do turn up in quantity. A treasure room in the Skull Cavern can hold a bundle of Bean Starter big enough to plant a whole field, and those rooms begin appearing below the tenth floor. A Seed Maker fed a harvested Green Bean hands starters back, which is the usual way a Greenhouse trellis gets filled without another coin leaving the chest.

Uses

The Seed Maker is the only machine with any interest in a Bean Starter, and it works the other way round: beans go in and starters come out. Because the vine regrows on its own, a field already planted needs no further seed, so Seed Maker starters are best saved for the Greenhouse or for Ginger Island, where the season never ends.

Selling surplus starters back over the counter returns only a part of what they cost, so a leftover stack is worth keeping rather than cashing in. Spares also cover the gaps in a trellis when a tile is skipped by mistake.

A raw starter makes a poor present. Nearly everyone in the valley, from Marnie and Pierre to the Dwarf and Krobus, dislikes being handed a bag of seed. The harvested Green Bean is the thing to give away instead.

Notes

Buy the starters on the fifteenth of Winter if the Night Market has already come round once. Spring mornings are crowded with Parsnip, Cauliflower and Potato, and having the beans in hand removes one errand.

Plan the lanes before the first sprout appears. Pulling a mature trellis apart to open a path wastes the vine, and a bean block with no way in is the most common complaint about the crop.

Put one starter in the Greenhouse as soon as it is repaired. The trellis there bears all year, which keeps Bean Hotpot and the Spring Crops Bundle supplied long after the field has died back.

All Seeds

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name	Grows	Season	Pierre
Acorn	Oak Tree	All	-
Amaranth Seeds	Amaranth	Fall	70g
Ancient Seeds	Ancient Fruit	Spring; Summer; Fall	-
Apple Sapling	Apple	Fall	4,000g
Apricot Sapling	Apricot	Spring	2,000g
Artichoke Seeds	Artichoke	Fall	30g (Year 2+)
Banana Sapling	Banana	All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley	-
Bean Starter	Green Bean	Spring	60g
Beet Seeds	Beet	Fall	-
Blue Grass Starter	Blue Grass	Spring; Summer; Fall	-
Blueberry Seeds	Blueberry	Summer	80g
Bok Choy Seeds	Bok Choy	Fall	50g
Broccoli Seeds	Broccoli	Fall	-
Cactus Seeds	Cactus Fruit	All	-
Carrot Seeds	Carrot	Spring	-
Cauliflower Seeds	Cauliflower	Spring	80g
Cherry Sapling	Cherry	Spring	3,400g
Coffee Bean	-	Spring; Summer	-
Corn Seeds	Corn	Summer; Fall	150g
Cranberry Seeds	Cranberries	Fall	240g
Eggplant Seeds	Eggplant	Fall	20g
Fairy Seeds	Fairy Rose	Fall	200g
Fall Seeds	Blackberry, Common Mushroom, Hazelnut, or Wild Plum	Fall	-
Fiber Seeds	Fiber	All	-
Garlic Seeds	Garlic	Spring	40g (Year 2+)
Grape Starter	Grape	Fall	60g
Grass Starter	Grass	Spring; Summer; Fall	100g
Hops Starter	Hops	Summer	60g
Jazz Seeds	Blue Jazz	Spring	30g
Kale Seeds	Kale	Spring	70g
Mahogany Seed	Mahogany Tree	All	-
Mango Sapling	Mango	All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley	-
Maple Seed	Maple Tree	All	-
Melon Seeds	Melon	Summer	80g
Mixed Flower Seeds	Varies	Spring Summer Fall	-
Mixed Seeds	Varies	Spring Summer Fall	-
Mossy Seed	Green Rain Tree	All	-
Mushroom Tree Seed	Mushroom Tree	All	-
Mystic Tree Seed	Mystic Tree	All	-
Orange Sapling	Orange	Summer	4,000g
Parsnip Seeds	Parsnip	Spring	20g
Peach Sapling	Peach	Summer	6,000g
Pepper Seeds	Hot Pepper	Summer	40g
Pine Cone	Pine Tree	All	-
Pineapple Seeds	Pineapple	All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley	-
Pomegranate Sapling	Pomegranate	Fall	6,000g
Poppy Seeds	Poppy	Summer	100g
Potato Seeds	Potato	Spring	50g
Powdermelon Seeds	Powdermelon	Winter	-
Pumpkin Seeds	Pumpkin	Fall	100g
Qi Bean	Qi Fruit	All	-
Radish Seeds	Radish	Summer	40g
Rare Seed	Sweet Gem Berry	Fall	-
Red Cabbage Seeds	Red Cabbage	Summer	100g (Year 2+)
Rhubarb Seeds	Rhubarb	Spring	-
Rice Shoot	Unmilled Rice	Spring	40g
Spangle Seeds	Summer Spangle	Summer	50g
Spring Seeds	Wild Horseradish, Daffodil,; Leek, or Dandelion	Spring	-
Starfruit Seeds	Starfruit	Summer	-
Strawberry Seeds	Strawberry	Spring	-
Summer Seeds	Grape, Spice Berry,; or Sweet Pea	Summer	-
Summer Squash Seeds	Summer Squash	Summer	-
Sunflower Seeds	Sunflower	Summer; Fall	200g
Taro Tuber	Taro Root	All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley	-
Tea Sapling	Tea Leaves	All	-
Tomato Seeds	Tomato	Summer	50g
Tulip Bulb	Tulip	Spring	20g
Wheat Seeds	Wheat	Summer; Fall	10g
Winter Seeds	Crocus, Crystal Fruit,; Snow Yam, or Winter Root	Winter	-
Yam Seeds	Yam	Fall	60g