Red Cabbage Seeds

Red Cabbage Seeds

Type	Seed
Grows	Red Cabbage
Season	Summer
Growth Time	9 days
Pierre	100g (Year 2+)
Cart	150 to 1,000g
Sell Price	50g

Red Cabbage Seeds sit behind a year gate. Pierre's General Store only puts them on the Summer shelf from the second year onwards, and before that the valley offers nothing but long odds. That gate matters because the Dye Bundle on the Community Center Bulletin Board asks for one Red Cabbage, and that bundle pays out a Seed Maker. A single lucky packet can therefore decide whether a Community Center is finished in a first year or left waiting. The ways round the gate are the Traveling Cart, a setting chosen when the farm is created, and some very patient work in the Skull Cavern.

Growing

Nine days of watering, one cabbage, and the tile comes free again. Nothing grows back, so each round costs another packet.

Nine days divides a Summer neatly. A packet sown on the first morning is ready in the middle of the first fortnight, and three rounds fit into the season with the last cabbage cut on its final day. The twentieth of Summer is the last morning a plain packet can go in unaided. Speed-Gro turns that tight third round into a comfortable one and covers a watering day lost to something else.

A first year packet does not have to wait for Summer at all. The Dye Bundle wants one cabbage and no more, so a single seed in a Garden Pot or in the Greenhouse settles the bundle whenever it happens to arrive.

Buying

From the second year Pierre's General Store carries the packet through Summer, and from then on it is an ordinary seed purchase like any other.

The Magic Shop Boat at the Night Market sells it on the sixteenth of Winter at the same price, again from the second year, which lets the following Summer's field be bought and paid for in the dark months.

In a first year the Traveling Cart is the realistic route. She stands in Cindersap Forest on Fridays and Sundays, her stock is drawn fresh for each visit, and the packet appears at a markup that can run as high as a thousand gold. Turning on the "Guarantee Year 1 Completable" option when a farm is created forces her to offer the seeds at least once during that first year, which turns the Dye Bundle from a hope into a certainty.

The Skull Cavern is the last resort. Mummies, Serpents and Purple Slimes each drop the packet on a fraction of a percent of kills, and the treasure rooms hold a stack on similar odds. Neither is a plan, but a deep run that happens to turn one up has solved the problem for good.

Once a cabbage exists, a Seed Maker makes the next generation from it, and the Dye Bundle itself hands over a Seed Maker. One lucky packet from the cart therefore buys the machine that ends the shortage.

Uses

The packet is for the ground. Shipping one back returns half the counter price, and a bag of seed is disliked by every villager who reacts to it.

Its other use is as the key to a bundle. A first year farm that finds a packet should grow the cabbage and set it aside rather than sell it, because the Dye Bundle asks for the cabbage itself.

Notes

Visit the cart with a full purse. Having a thousand gold in hand on a Friday morning is the whole technique, and a farm that arrives short watches the packet go unbought.

The guarantee option can only be chosen while a farm is being created, so a save already underway has to rely on luck or on the second year.

Plant that first cabbage near the house rather than out in a far corner. One plant watered by hand for nine days is easy to forget, and forgetting it costs a year.

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