Strawberry

Strawberry

Type	Crop
Season	Spring
Seed	Strawberry Seeds
Growth Time	8 days
Regrowth	Every 4 days
Sell Price	120g
Energy	50
Health	22

The Strawberry is a regrowing Spring fruit with an unusual catch: its seeds are sold only at Pierre's booth during the Egg Festival in the middle of Spring. That leaves only half a season for the first planting. Planted on Spring 1 the next year, the same crop gives many more harvests, so strawberries are a crop to plan a year ahead. Demetrius and Maru both love the fruit. It also makes good wine and jelly for an early-season Keg or Preserves Jar.

The in-game description reads: A sweet, juicy favorite with an appealing red color.

Growing

Pierre's booth at the Egg Festival on Spring 13 sells Strawberry Seeds for 100g each. A Seed Maker can turn harvested strawberries into more seeds. The usual approach is to buy at the festival in Year 1 and make seeds for the following Spring.

After the first harvest, the same plant gives a new strawberry every 4 days until the end of Spring. Seeds planted on the evening of the Egg Festival ripen on Spring 21 and fruit again on Spring 25. That is two harvests in the first year without growth boosts. Seeds planted on Spring 1 of a later year ripen on Spring 9 and then fruit on Spring 13, 17, 21 and 25, for five harvests from one seed.

Preparation makes the most of the short first season. Tilling, fertilising and watering the field before going to the Egg Festival lets the seeds go straight into the ground after the festival ends that night. Speed-Gro shortens only the first growth, which is exactly where the Year 1 strawberry field is short of time.

Quality Fertiliser or Deluxe Fertiliser under a regrowing plant improves every one of its harvests, not just the first.

Prices

Silver, gold and iridium strawberries sell for a quarter, a half and double the base price more. The Tiller profession adds 10% to every raw sale.

A Keg turns a Strawberry into wine worth three times the base price. A Preserves Jar makes Strawberry Jelly worth twice the base price plus 50g. The jelly is worth less than the wine, but the jar finishes far sooner, so jars keep up better with a large Spring field. A Dehydrator takes five strawberries and returns a pack of Dried Fruit the next morning. The Artisan profession adds 40% to all three goods. Machines ignore the quality of the fruit, so normal strawberries are the ones to process.

Sell prices by quality, with the bonus from each profession.

Quality	Price	Tiller (+10%)
Normal	120g	132g
Silver	150g	165g
Gold	180g	198g
Iridium	240g	264g

Uses

Strawberry is mainly a sales and processing crop. Its biggest extra use is as a gift for Demetrius and Maru.

At the dye pots in Emily's and Haley's house, the Strawberry counts as a red dye.

Gifts

Demetrius and Maru love strawberries. Since strawberries regrow all Spring, a small bed supplies a steady stream of loved gifts for both of them. A few saved berries cover their Summer birthdays. Elliott, Harvey, Jodi, Kent, Leah, Linus, Pam, Robin, Sandy and Shane like the fruit. Abigail, Haley, Jas and Vincent dislike it, and most other villagers are neutral.

These villagers love receiving Strawberry as a gift.

Villager	Image
Demetrius
Maru

Notes

The Traveling Cart sometimes sells raw strawberries, always at a mark-up.

Strawberries are a classic Year 2 money crop. A field of saved seeds planted on Spring 1 gives five harvests from one planting. Once the seed problem is solved, they are one of the best earners of the Spring.

All Crops

Every crop, with its season, growth time and normal-quality sell price.

Crop	Season	Growth	Price
Blue Jazz	Spring	7 days	50g
Carrot	Spring	3 days	35g
Cauliflower	Spring	12 days	175g
Garlic	Spring	4 days	60g
Green Bean	Spring	10 days	40g
Kale	Spring	6 days	110g
Parsnip	Spring	4 days	35g
Potato	Spring	6 days	80g
Rhubarb	Spring	13 days	220g
Strawberry	Spring	8 days	120g
Tulip	Spring	6 days	30g
Unmilled Rice	Spring	-	-
Ancient Fruit	Spring, Summer, Fall	28 days	550g
Tea Leaves	Spring, Summer, Fall	20 days	-
Blueberry	Summer	13 days	50g
Hops	Summer	11 days	25g
Hot Pepper	Summer	5 days	40g
Melon	Summer	12 days	250g
Poppy	Summer	7 days	140g
Radish	Summer	6 days	90g
Red Cabbage	Summer	9 days	260g
Starfruit	Summer	13 days	750g
Summer Spangle	Summer	8 days	90g
Summer Squash	Summer	6 days	-
Tomato	Summer	11 days	60g
Corn	Summer, Fall	14 days	50g
Sunflower	Summer, Fall	8 days	80g
Wheat	Summer, Fall	4 days	25g
Amaranth	Fall	7 days	150g
Artichoke	Fall	8 days	160g
Beet	Fall	6 days	100g
Bok Choy	Fall	4 days	80g
Cranberries	Fall	7 days	-
Eggplant	Fall	5 days	60g
Fairy Rose	Fall	12 days	-
Pumpkin	Fall	13 days	320g
Sweet Gem Berry	Fall	24 days	-
Yam	Fall	10 days	160g
Powdermelon	Winter	-	60g
Broccoli	-	-	-
Cactus Fruit	-	-	75g
Grape	-	-	80g
Pineapple	-	-	-
Qi Fruit	-	-	-
Taro Root	-	10 days	100g