Beet Seeds

Beet Seeds

Type	Seed
Grows	Beet
Season	Fall
Growth Time	6 days
Oasis	20g
Cart	100 to 1,000g
Sell Price	10g

Beet Seeds come from the desert and nowhere in town, which makes them the first crop locked behind a bus repair. Sandy keeps them on her permanent shelf at the Oasis, so one trip across the sand can stock a whole Fall. They are among the cheapest seeds anyone sells, and the root they grow matures fast enough to be sown four times in a single season. The quick cycle and the low price make Beet Seeds the natural filler between the slow, expensive Fall crops. Anything beyond that is a bonus: Sandy never runs out, and the Oasis has no weekly rotation to wait for.

Growing

A beet sown in watered soil swells into a harvestable root in under a week and is then pulled for good. Nothing grows back, so the plot has to be sown again each time, which is the main difference between Beet and the Fall crops that keep producing.

That short cycle allows a chain of four plantings inside one Fall. Sowing on the first day, then re-sowing the same plot each time a root comes out, fills the season almost exactly. The last of those sowings has to go in by the nineteenth to finish. A single beet put in as late as the twenty-second will still mature on the final day, so a half-empty field late in the season is worth filling rather than leaving bare.

Everything in the ground dies when the twenty-eighth passes, ripe roots included, so the last harvest belongs on the last day of Fall and not the first morning of Winter. Deluxe Speed-Gro shortens the growing time further, and Sandy happens to stock it on Thursdays, which makes a Thursday desert run worth more than any other day of the week.

Inside the Greenhouse the season rule lifts entirely. Beet is a sensible Greenhouse filler for the same reason it works in a field: the seed costs almost nothing, so a plot given over to it is never an expensive mistake.

Buying

The Oasis is the only shop that lists Beet Seeds, and Sandy keeps them in stock every day of the year rather than only in Fall. Her counter opens in the morning and closes in the evening, and the desert itself only opens once the bus out of Pelican Town has been repaired. That repair comes either from finishing the Vault bundles at the Community Center or from following the Joja route, so a first-year farm may well reach Fall before the desert.

Buying ahead saves planting days. Because the shelf never empties and never rotates, a stack bought during Summer sits in a chest until Fall begins, and the farm loses no planting days to a bus ride. A single visit can cover a whole field.

The Traveling Cart carries Beet Seeds now and then, but she asks many times what Sandy charges for them. Her version is only worth considering by a farm with no desert access at all, and even then the money usually goes further elsewhere.

The free route runs through the Skull Cavern. Its treasure rooms hold chests that can carry Beet Seeds in a bundle large enough to plant out a field, and those rooms start turning up below the tenth floor, which is the same depth a desert visit already reaches. A Seed Maker also takes a harvested Beet and returns seed, though with a shop price this low the machine earns more running an expensive crop instead.

Uses

Beet Seeds exist to be planted, and the Seed Maker is the only machine with any interest in them, working in reverse: a harvested root goes in and fresh seed comes out. On a farm that has desert access the machine has better things to do, since Sandy's shelf is cheaper than the beet it would consume.

Keeping a stack in reserve has a quieter use. Because the cycle is so short, a bag of beet seed is the handiest way to fill a plot that has just come free, which keeps tilled and fertilised soil earning instead of sitting idle for a week.

Offering the raw seed as a present goes down badly. Every villager who has an opinion on it, Sandy included, dislikes a bag of beet seed, so the root is the gift and the packet is not.

Selling seeds back over a counter returns only a fraction of the price, so leftovers are better banked for the following Fall than cashed in.

Notes

Buy Beet Seeds on the very first desert trip, whatever the season. They cost so little that a large stack barely dents a purse, and having them in hand turns Fall planting into a single morning's work.

Pair the purchase with the rest of Sandy's permanent shelf. Rhubarb Seeds and Starfruit Seeds sit beside the beets, and one bus fare covers all three.

Keep beets in the ground right up to the end of Fall. The cycle is short enough that a final sowing in the fourth week still returns a crop, which is more than most Fall seeds manage.

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