Parsnip Seeds

Parsnip Seeds

Type	Seed
Grows	Parsnip
Season	Spring
Growth Time	4 days
Pierre	20g
JojaMart	25g
Cart	100 to 1,000g
Sell Price	10g

Parsnip Seeds are the first thing almost every farm puts in the ground. A package of fifteen is waiting on the floor of the cottage on the first morning, and picking it up starts Getting Started, the quest that asks for nothing more than one planted seed and one harvested Parsnip. Every seed in that packet is free, the soil is already waiting in the clearing by the house, and four days later the first money of the save comes out of the ground. After that the packet is the cheapest thing on Pierre's shelf, which is what makes the first bed able to fund a bed twice its size. The seeds are also the fastest route to Farming experience in the opening week, since a crop that finishes in four days pays experience four times as often as one that takes a fortnight.

Growing

Four one-day stages take a seed to a pullable Parsnip, which is the shortest wait of any seed sold in the valley. The soil has to be hoed and watered like any vegetable bed, and a single Parsnip comes out of each seed, so the row has to be sown again after every pull.

That speed is the main appeal. Replanting the moment a bed is cleared fits six full cycles into one Spring, and no other crop in the season comes close to that many turns. The arithmetic does run out at the end: a seed needs four nights, so one sown after the twenty-fourth of Spring is lost when Summer arrives. Clearing the bed by the twenty-eighth and holding the leftover packets until next Spring is the tidy way to finish.

Speed-Gro shortens the cycle further, and the Agriculturist profession stacks on top of it, which can push a bed into a seventh harvest. Deluxe Fertilizer is the only way to see an iridium Parsnip at all, and six quick cycles give six chances at it. In a Garden Pot, the Greenhouse or the Ginger Island farm the seeds plant in any season, which is useful when a quest asks for a Parsnip out of Spring.

Buying

Mayor Lewis provides the opening fifteen on every farm except the Meadowlands, where the newcomer is handed hay and a pair of chickens instead and has to buy the first seeds over a counter.

Pierre's General Store is that counter, and it stocks the packets through Spring at the lowest price of any seed he sells. JojaMart asks a little more for the same packet, which only matters on a day when Pierre's door is shut. On the fifteenth of Winter the Magic Shop Boat moored at the Night Market lists them at the ordinary shop price. A whole Spring's worth of seed can be bought and stored then, so the first morning of the year is spent planting rather than walking into town.

The Traveling Cart does carry them, and her asking price can run to many times what Pierre charges. On a packet this cheap that mark-up makes the cart pure theatre.

Free packets turn up in bulk once a save is running. Treasure rooms in the Skull Cavern hold stacks of five to twenty, and a Mystery Box opened at the Blacksmith often gives eight or more, with the larger piles weighted towards Spring. A Seed Maker fed a Parsnip returns one to three packets, which closes the loop entirely, although by the time a farm can build one its beds are usually full of something more valuable. Mixed Seeds planted in Spring on the farm can also come up as Parsnips, and they are picked more often than either of the other two outcomes.

Uses

The first packet exists to finish Getting Started, and the hundred gold from the Journal doubles the harvest's value. The quest asks for one plant, which leaves fourteen seeds to spend as the farmer likes.

Selling a packet back returns half of what Pierre charges, which is the basis of a well-known opening: plant a single seed for the quest, sell the remaining fourteen, and put the whole sum into Potato Seeds instead. The counter-argument is simply volume, because planting all fifteen gives fifteen Parsnips to sell within four days and a far bigger pot of gold to shop with. Either way the packet turns into money quickly, which is more than can be said for most Spring seeds.

A packet makes a poor present. The villagers of Pelican Town dislike being handed seed, so friendship has to be bought with the Parsnip that grows out of it instead, and Pam loves those.

Keeping a few packets in a chest through the later years costs nothing and covers the odd Help Wanted request or a Spring Crops Bundle slot that was never filled.

Notes

Plant all fifteen on the first morning rather than one. The clearing by the farmhouse is already clear enough for the row, and the watering is a few minutes of energy against the best return the first week offers.

Buy the next Spring's seed at the Night Market in Winter. Gold is easy to spare that month, and the first day of Spring is better spent planting than shopping.

Keep the fast cycle in mind for quality. Six harvests in a season give six rolls for gold-quality Parsnips, which makes them the easiest crop to stockpile quality examples of.

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