Spring Seeds

Spring Seeds

Type	Seed
Grows	Wild Horseradish, Daffodil,; Leek, or Dandelion
Produces	10 Spring Seeds per craft
Season	Spring
Growth Time	7 days
Cart	105 to 1,000g
Sell Price	35g

Spring Seeds are the first seed the game lets anyone make. The recipe arrives with the very first level of the Foraging skill, which most farms pass in their opening week simply by picking things up, and the four items it asks for are lying on the ground all over the valley at that moment. One craft turns them into ten seeds, and what grows is forage rather than farm produce: a Daffodil, a Leek, a Dandelion or a Wild Horseradish, drawn at random. That shifts who decides the quality, because the Foraging skill rather than Farming governs how often a better harvest appears. The craft is also worth more than its parts, so a chest of Spring pickings is usually better turned into seed than shipped as it stands.

Growing

Tilled soil, water and a week of waiting is all the bed asks for. The plants pass through only two stages, and each one yields a single forage item before the tile goes back to bare earth.

With a week to a round, a bed sown on the first of Spring can be turned over four times before the season ends, and the twenty-first is the last date a sowing still ripens. Every round starts from scratch, so fertiliser and Speed-Gro have to be laid again each time. That is the main argument for sowing a whole patch at once rather than in dribs and drabs.

The half-grown stage is the famous trap. Wild seeds at that point look like shrivelled brown stalks, and more than one careful farmer has scythed a healthy bed in the belief that the crop had died. Nothing recovers from that, so the rule is to leave the tile alone until the plant is unmistakably ripe.

Quality works differently here from a row of Parsnips. Foraging rather than Farming sets the chance of a better harvest, so the skill that climbs by walking the woods quietly improves the beds at home. The Botanist profession at the top of that skill brings foraged goods in at the highest grade, which turns a bed of free wild seed into some of the most valuable produce a first-year farm can ship.

Crows take no interest in the patch. A bed of Spring Seeds can therefore sit well away from any Scarecrow, and the protected squares can go to the Potatoes and Cauliflower that genuinely need the cover.

Island plots behave oddly with these plants. A tile harvested on Ginger Island can revert to rough ground and lose whatever fertiliser sat in it, so the island is a poor home for them.

Buying

No shop in town carries these, which is rather the point of them.

The crafting bench is the usual answer, and the ingredient list doubles as a walk around Pelican Town in the first fortnight. Daffodils and Leeks sit along the paths and the Bus Stop, Dandelions crowd the farm's own edges, and Wild Horseradish hides in the forest and the mountains. Four items become ten seeds, so one morning of picking plants a decent bed.

Handing the Crafts Room its Spring Foraging Bundle pays out thirty seeds at once. The bundle wants exactly the four items the recipe wants, so a farmer who picks two of everything satisfies both at once and has thirty seeds coming back on top.

Saturdays are wild-seed day at the trader's stall in the Calico Desert, where two Summer Seeds buy a Spring Seed in return. Summer Seeds come from a later Foraging level and a later season, so that swap is a second-year convenience rather than an early one. It suits a farm that wants a Spring bed standing ready before Spring begins.

Uses

The craft pays off even when nothing is planted. Ten seeds fetch noticeably more at the bin than the four ordinary forage items spent on them, so a Spring glut is worth putting through the bench first. That advantage closes for a farm with the Botanist profession, because top-grade forage sells for more than the seed it would have become.

The Tea Sapling recipe asks for Fiber, Wood and two packets of wild seed of any season, so one craft of ten stretches to five saplings. Caroline sends that recipe in the post once she thinks well enough of the farm, and each sapling then gives Tea Leaves in the last week of every season but Winter.

Forage cut from the bed is accepted by the Spring Foraging Bundle exactly as a wild-picked item would be. A planted patch is therefore a dependable way to finish the Crafts Room in a year when the woods have already been stripped.

Handing a packet of seed to a villager goes down badly across Pelican Town, so the stack belongs in soil or in the crafting menu.

Notes

Keep a second set of the four ingredients aside while gathering for the bundle. It calls for identical items, and tracking down a second Wild Horseradish is more walking than it is worth.

The twenty-first is the last worthwhile sowing date. A bed put in then clears on the final day of the season and leaves the ground ready for Summer planting.

Gatherer is the gateway to Botanist, so a farm that plans on wild-seed beds should take it the moment the Foraging skill offers the choice.

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