Garden Pot
| Garden Pot | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Evelyn cutscene after completing the Greenhouse |
The Garden Pot is a portable planter that lets crops grow almost anywhere. Indoors it ignores the seasons completely, so Strawberries or Pumpkins can grow in the farmhouse in the middle of Winter. Outdoors on the farm it behaves like ordinary soil and only takes crops of the current season. Evelyn brings the recipe once the Greenhouse is restored. Pots turn sheds, the farmhouse and odd corners of the farm into extra growing space, at the price of daily watering by hand.
Recipe
The recipe comes from Evelyn. After the Greenhouse is repaired, she drops by the farm one morning and hands it over in a short scene. The visit happens when the farmer steps out of the farmhouse in the morning on a day without rain. It does not always come straight away, and some farmers wait a while before she appears.
Each pot takes one Clay, ten Stone and one Refined Quartz. Clay turns up when hoeing dirt, sand and artifact spots, and the Clay Nodes at the Ginger Island Dig Site give a steady supply. Geodes sometimes hold a lump or two, and Jas or Vincent may hand over Clay at the Feast of the Winter Star. Smelting Quartz with Coal in a Furnace makes the Refined Quartz.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Clay | 
|
1 |
| Stone | 
|
10 |
| Refined Quartz | 
|
1 |
Use
Fertiliser can go into a pot, just as it would into tilled soil. Planting the seed before adding the fertiliser avoids wasting a bag on a spot that will not take the crop.
Where a pot sits decides what grows. Under a roof, any seed except Ancient Seeds will grow, whatever the season. That covers the farmhouse, every farm building, the Farm Cave, the Sewers and the Mutant Bug Lair. The Tunnel, the Witch's Swamp and the entrance rooms of the Mines and the Skull Cavern count as well. Outdoors on the farm or the Ginger Island farm, only crops of the current season take root. Outdoors anywhere else, the pot accepts nothing but Tea Saplings.
Sprinklers cannot reach a pot, so every pot needs the Watering Can each day. Deluxe Retaining Soil solves this. With it mixed in, a crop in a pot needs watering only once.
Notes
A shed full of pots can hold a whole extra field. Without Deluxe Retaining Soil, though, watering every pot by hand takes up much of the morning.
Flowers in pots count for nearby Bee Houses. A potted flower near a hive flavours its honey, just as a flower bed would.
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