Broccoli Seeds

Broccoli Seeds

Type	Seed
Grows	Broccoli
Season	Fall
Growth Time	8 days
Sell Price	40g

Broccoli Seeds are the Fall seed that no shop will sell for gold. They come out of the ground, out of chests, out of monsters and out of a raccoon's shop, which makes finding them a small side activity in its own right. The reliable route is Moss: the Raccoon Wife trades a handful of it for a packet, and moss costs nothing but a few swings at a tree. Once planted, the stalk keeps cropping every few days until Winter, so a single found seed can feed a farm for most of a season. Because the seeds arrive free, almost everything a broccoli patch earns is clear profit.

Growing

Broccoli spends a little over a week growing before the first head is ready to cut. From then on it puts up a fresh head every fourth day, and the stalk itself stays put until the season ends. A seed sown on the opening morning of the season reaches five cuttings.

Sowing later costs whole cuttings rather than parts of them, because the regrowth runs on a four-day clock. The twentieth of Fall is the last date on which a seed can mature at all. Unlike a shop crop, though, a late broccoli is never a waste of money, since the seed was found rather than bought. Anything it yields is a gain.

The plant occupies an ordinary crop tile and can be walked across, so a broccoli bed needs no lanes cut through it and sits happily inside a sprinkler square. When the twenty-eighth of Fall passes the stalks wither along with everything else, and any head still standing is lost, so the final cutting belongs on the last day of the season. In the Greenhouse that limit does not exist, and one stalk there crops indefinitely.

Buying

No gold changes hands for Broccoli Seeds. The search for them is the cost instead, and the routes differ enormously in reliability.

The Raccoon Wife's shop is the best of them. She takes a small handful of Moss for each packet, and moss comes off trees with green growth on their trunks through Spring, Summer and Fall. A Green Rain day in Summer smothers the valley in it, which is the moment to collect in bulk. Her shop opens once the Raccoon family's requests have been worked through, and from then on broccoli is effectively on tap. It is also the only route that works whatever the season.

Seed Spots are the other dependable find. They look like a dig spot with green blades showing instead of worms, and only a Hoe will open one; every spot gives a small handful of seeds, and daily luck nudges the number. Which seed comes out depends on the date, which is why broccoli turns up in the run-up to Fall. They appear around Pelican Town, out in the Calico Desert and over on Ginger Island, standing in for artifact spots at a modest rate, so a morning of digging usually produces a few.

The rest are bonuses rather than plans. Golden Fishing Treasure Chests occasionally hold a packet. Crates and barrels in the Mines, the Skull Cavern and the Volcano Dungeon break open with them now and then. Iridium Golems drop them often when killed. A Mystery Box taken to the Blacksmith and opened can contain a bundle of seed. The Prize Machine in Mayor Lewis's house lists Broccoli Seeds as its cheapest prize, and the tickets for it come from the Help Wanted requests that show a ticket icon before being accepted. Finishing a request for the Raccoon family can hand them over too.

Uses

The Seed Maker is the reason a small find becomes a real patch. A cut head put into the machine returns seed, and that loop is the only way to multiply broccoli deliberately rather than waiting on luck. The first head of the season is usually worth spending this way rather than selling.

The seed also works as a dye. In the dye pots at Emily and Haley's house at 2 Willow Lane it fills the orange slot, and in the spool of the Sewing Machine with a dyeable garment in the feed it gives brown.

As a present it goes down badly. Everyone in the valley who reacts to it dislikes being offered seed, so the cut head is the thing to give.

Notes

Dig every green-bladed spot in the weeks before Fall. Those spots are the main way a first run of Broccoli Seeds appears, and a handful is all a regrowing crop needs.

Bank moss during Green Rain. Trading it for seed is the only route that works at any time of year, and a chest of moss turns the Raccoon Wife into a seed shop.

Feed the first cutting into a Seed Maker rather than the shipping bin. Trading one head for seed now is worth more than its price, because every plant it starts keeps cropping on its own.

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