Garlic Seeds

Garlic Seeds

Type	Seed
Grows	Garlic
Season	Spring
Growth Time	4 days
Pierre	40g (Year 2+)
Cart	100 to 1,000g
Sell Price	20g

Garlic Seeds sit behind a calendar lock rather than a price tag. Pierre's General Store does not put them on the Spring shelf until the second year, which leaves an opening farm to go looking elsewhere. Once that shelf opens they are among the most forgiving seeds in the game, since four days from sowing to harvest means one bed can be turned over again and again from the opening morning of Spring to its final week. The crop they raise, Garlic, is wanted by the handful rather than one at a time, because ten bulbs go into a single bottle of Oil of Garlic. Sowing little and often beats a single wide planting, and that habit is what decides how many packets a season really needs.

The in-game description reads: Plant these in the spring. Takes 4 days to mature.

Growing

Four one-day stages is as quick as a Spring crop gets. The plant is cut once and gone, so each round needs a fresh packet in the tile.

The short cycle makes the sowing date almost beside the point. A bed opened on the twenty-fourth of Spring still ripens with days to spare, so a late packet is never a wasted one and a stack bought halfway through the season is as useful as a stack bought on the first morning.

What the quick cycle does change is the shopping pattern. A slow crop is bought once and left to grow; a bed of Garlic is bought as many times as it is sown, so the packet price is paid over and over through the season. Speed-Gro trims the four days shorter still, and because each round is a fresh sowing, the fertiliser works on every round rather than only the opening one.

Harvesting and resowing on the same morning is what keeps the ground working. A single day's gap costs a whole round across a season, which is the one piece of carelessness a crop this fast really punishes.

In the Greenhouse and in the island soil on Ginger Island the season gate falls away. A four-day cycle in a permanent bed is one of the quickest sources of Farming experience there is, and the second-year rule has no bearing once the seeds are already in hand.

Buying

From the second Spring onward Pierre's General Store is the straightforward answer, and it is the only town counter that lists the packet at all.

The Night Market offers the same deal ahead of time. The Magic Shop Boat brings out Spring seeds on the first of its three Winter nights, Garlic Seeds among them for what Pierre asks, and the second-year condition still applies there. What the trip buys is convenience, a chest of packets standing ready before Spring opens.

For a first year the routes are much narrower. The Traveling Cart carries the packet occasionally on her forest days, and even her cheapest asking price is well above what Pierre will want later, so she is a curiosity rather than a supply. The treasure rooms deep in the Skull Cavern are the better find, since a single chest can hold five to twenty packets at no cost at all.

Once one Garlic exists, the shop becomes optional. A bulb dropped into a Seed Maker returns one to three packets, so a modest first harvest multiplies into a full bed within a round or two, and from then on the crop funds its own replanting.

Uses

The Seed Maker is the only machine that has any interest in a Garlic Seed, and it runs in the opposite direction: bulbs go in and packets come out. On some runs it also returns a few Mixed Seeds, and rarely a packet of Ancient Seeds, so feeding a surplus of bulbs through it is seldom wasted effort.

A packet sold back across a shop counter fetches a small part of its price, which makes a leftover stack better kept than cashed in. Spares also cover the Greenhouse and an island bed, both of which ignore which year it is.

As a present a packet lands badly. The village dislikes being handed seed of any sort, and a couple of people in town hate the bulb itself, so neither form is a safe gift.

Notes

Keep one packet aside instead of planting every last one. A single Garlic Seed carried over to Ginger Island answers the Gourmand Frog's third request, and nothing there cares which season it is.

Dive the Skull Cavern in the first year with Garlic in mind. Two or three treasure rooms cover an opening bed and skip the wait for Pierre's shelf entirely.

Buy in quantity once the shelf does open. Oil of Garlic swallows ten bulbs a bottle, and a crop this quick is better run as a long series of small beds than as one wide field.

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