Strawberry Seeds

Strawberry Seeds

Type	Seed
Grows	Strawberry
Season	Spring
Growth Time	8 days
Sell Price	0g

Strawberry Seeds live on one morning of the year. Spring's thirteenth day brings the Egg Festival, Pierre runs a stand there, and that stand is the only place in Pelican Town where the packet can be bought at all. The plant pays the spending back in a way few Spring crops do, because it keeps bearing every few days once it has matured instead of giving one harvest and dying. The catch is the date: half of Spring has already gone by the time the stand opens, so a first-year planting gets two pickings at best and the real money arrives in the second year. The packets also have no resale value whatever, which makes the Seed Maker a planting tool here rather than a way of turning crops into cash.

The in-game description reads: Plant these in spring. Takes 8 days to mature, and keeps producing strawberries after that.

Growing

The packet goes into tilled soil in Spring and takes a little over a week to mature. From then on it gives again every four days until the season runs out, and occasionally it drops an extra berry on the same morning.

The calendar is unforgiving. Seeds bought on the morning of the thirteenth and planted the same afternoon ripen on the twenty-first, which leaves time for that picking and one more on the twenty-fifth. Pushing the sowing even a couple of days later costs the second harvest outright, so festival day is also planting day. The soil wants hoeing and the Sprinklers want setting out before the farmer leaves for town.

Speed-Gro is unusually valuable on this crop, since every day shaved off the first stretch of growth is a day the plant spends bearing instead. It only affects that first stretch and not the regrowth, so a single application at planting is the whole of the benefit.

The end of Spring kills the plants outdoors, but the Greenhouse keeps them alive indefinitely. A bed of Strawberries under glass bears every few days in every season, and the Ginger Island plot does the same. That is why many farms treat the festival purchase as a one-off investment in permanent beds rather than a seasonal crop.

Buying

Pierre's stand at the Egg Festival opens at nine in the morning and the whole event closes at two in the afternoon. Buying is the first order of business, since the festival finishes the moment the egg hunt does and whatever is left unbought is gone for a year. The stand carries decorations as well, so the money has competition.

How much to buy is the real decision of the morning. Every tool upgrade, building and seed paid for in the first twelve days of Spring is a Strawberry packet not bought, and a farm that reaches the festival with a full purse walks home with the makings of a second-year fortune. Inventory space matters too, since the packets stack but the bag still needs a free slot for them.

The Desert Festival offers a second window later on. The Calico Egg Merchant sells Strawberry Seeds on the first and third days of that festival in exchange for a handful of Calico Eggs, and Maru's own stall there carries them as well. Those trades cost no gold at all, which makes the festival a useful top-up for a farm that spent its savings elsewhere.

The Seed Maker is the long-term answer. A Strawberry put into the machine comes back as seed, so the first year's harvest becomes the second year's field without another festival visit. The packets cannot be sold, so it is best to make only as many as the beds will hold.

Uses

Beyond planting, the packet's value lies in what the Strawberry becomes. A Preserves Jar turns the fruit into jelly and a Keg turns it into wine, and both are worth a good deal more than the berry on its own.

A planted bed also puts Strawberries in the chest during Spring for cooking and for gifts, which is otherwise a thin season for fruit.

Seed packets are an unwelcome gift everywhere in Pelican Town, so a surplus goes into the ground or stays in storage.

Notes

Hoe and water the bed before festival day. The seeds go in that same afternoon, and digging first wastes the hours that decide the second harvest.

Hold back on spending in the first week of Spring. Fishing is the cheapest way to arrive at the festival with money, since it costs nothing but time.

Run the first harvest through the Seed Maker rather than the Shipping Bin. A handful of berries turned into seed in year one fills a proper field on the first of Spring in year two, and that field then bears all season.

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