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Kale Seeds

Kale Seeds
Kale Seeds
Type Seed
Grows Kale
Season Spring
Growth Time 6 days
Pierre 70g
JojaMart 87g
Cart 105 to 1,000g
Sell Price 35g

Kale Seeds buy one of the quickest turnarounds Spring has. Six days from sowing to cutting means a Single Bed can carry four crops before the season closes, and the outlay comes back on the first harvest. The catch is the harvest itself: kale will not come up by hand and has to be cut with a Scythe, which is easy to forget on a farm where everything else is simply picked. Pierre's General Store is the usual counter, though treasure rooms deep in the Skull Cavern give the packet up in stacks of as many as twenty. The leaves then feed Stir Fry, a cheap dish that restores far more energy than the crop is worth in the Shipping Bin.


Growing

Six days of watering produce one cutting, and the stalk does not come back. A fresh seed goes in after every harvest.

That short cycle is the whole argument for kale. Sowing on the opening morning of Spring and replanting each time the bed comes free fits four crops into the season, with the last safe sowing falling on the twenty-second. Set against soil given over to one slow crop, the bed earns steadily instead of once.

The Scythe is the part that trips people up. Standing on a ripe kale tile does nothing at all, because the plant has to be cut rather than gathered. The Scythe carried from the first day handles it, and a Junimo Hut will clear a bed once the huts are standing. The real risk is reaching the end of Spring with a field of uncut leaves and no tool in the bag.

Speed fertiliser buys very little on a crop this short. Quality fertiliser is the better choice for a bed meant to feed the Shipping Bin rather than the kitchen, since each stalk gives a single cutting that can carry a grade.

Under Greenhouse glass the six Day Cycle simply repeats without a break, which makes kale a reasonable filler for ground waiting on something slower.

Buying

Pierre's General Store keeps the packet out through Spring at the lowest marked price in town. JojaMart asks more for exactly the same seed.

The Magic Shop Boat brings the spring list to the beach on the fifteenth of Winter and sells kale at Pierre's figure. That is the way to have the first bed watered and growing before Spring properly opens.

Free stacks come out of the ground. Treasure rooms in the Skull Cavern hold five to twenty Kale Seeds at a time, which is more than one bed needs and far more than the trip costs in bombs. A farm that mines seriously never visits a shop for kale at all.

One cut stalk put through a Seed Maker usually gives back more than one packet. That means a bed bought once can carry itself through the rest of that Spring and into the next.

The Traveling Cart carries kale in her rotation at a markup that makes no sense while the General Store is open.

Uses

Cooking a Cave Carrot, a Common Mushroom, some Oil and a Kale together makes Stir Fry. Every ingredient is cheap or free, and the dish gives back far more energy than the kale would fetch raw, which makes a kale bed a quiet way to fund a week of mining.

The Seed Maker takes the cut leaves and returns seed, running the usual direction in reverse.

As a present the packet falls flat. Every villager with a view on a bag of kale seed dislikes receiving one.

Notes

Keep the Scythe in the bag all through Spring. A kale bed that ripens while the tool sits in a chest is a bed that cannot be cleared, and the crop will not wait past the season.

Harvest and sow on the same morning. A day of empty soil costs a sixth of the next crop, and nothing about kale rewards leaving a bed fallow.

Spend the Skull Cavern stacks on the Greenhouse. Seed found underground costs nothing, and kale indoors cycles through the winter months when the outdoor beds are frozen.

All Seeds

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Beet Seeds Beet Seeds Beet Fall -
Blue Grass Starter Blue Grass Starter Blue Grass Spring; Summer; Fall -
Blueberry Seeds Blueberry Seeds Blueberry Summer 80g
Bok Choy Seeds Bok Choy Seeds Bok Choy Fall 50g
Broccoli Seeds Broccoli Seeds Broccoli Fall -
Cactus Seeds Cactus Seeds Cactus Fruit All -
Carrot Seeds Carrot Seeds Carrot Spring -
Cauliflower Seeds Cauliflower Seeds Cauliflower Spring 80g
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Coffee Bean Coffee Bean - Spring; Summer -
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Eggplant Seeds Eggplant Seeds Eggplant Fall 20g
Fairy Seeds Fairy Seeds Fairy Rose Fall 200g
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Fiber Seeds Fiber Seeds Fiber All -
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Grape Starter Grape Starter Grape Fall 60g
Grass Starter Grass Starter Grass Spring; Summer; Fall 100g
Hops Starter Hops Starter Hops Summer 60g
Jazz Seeds Jazz Seeds Blue Jazz Spring 30g
Kale Seeds Kale Seeds Kale Spring 70g
Mahogany Seed Mahogany Seed Mahogany Tree All -
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Maple Seed Maple Seed Maple Tree All -
Melon Seeds Melon Seeds Melon Summer 80g
Mixed Flower Seeds Mixed Flower Seeds Varies Spring Summer Fall -
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Mushroom Tree Seed Mushroom Tree Seed Mushroom Tree All -
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Pepper Seeds Pepper Seeds Hot Pepper Summer 40g
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Poppy Seeds Poppy Seeds Poppy Summer 100g
Potato Seeds Potato Seeds Potato Spring 50g
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Pumpkin Seeds Pumpkin Seeds Pumpkin Fall 100g
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Red Cabbage Seeds Red Cabbage Seeds Red Cabbage Summer 100g (Year 2+)
Rhubarb Seeds Rhubarb Seeds Rhubarb Spring -
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Spangle Seeds Spangle Seeds Summer Spangle Summer 50g
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Starfruit Seeds Starfruit Seeds Starfruit Summer -
Strawberry Seeds Strawberry Seeds Strawberry Spring -
Summer Seeds Summer Seeds Grape, Spice Berry,; or Sweet Pea Summer -
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Tulip Bulb Tulip Bulb Tulip Spring 20g
Wheat Seeds Wheat Seeds Wheat Summer; Fall 10g
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