Summer Seeds

Summer Seeds

Type	Seed
Grows	Grape, Spice Berry,; or Sweet Pea
Produces	10 Summer Seeds per craft
Season	Summer
Growth Time	7 days
Cart	165 to 1,000g
Sell Price	55g

Summer Seeds are the middle member of the crafted wild-seed family, and the one with the shortest odds. The recipe comes with the fourth level of the Foraging skill, and a single Spice Berry, Grape and Sweet Pea turn into ten seeds. Three possible harvests instead of four make this the most predictable wild patch there is, and one of those three is a Grape, the only wild-seed harvest a Keg will take. The craft is the most profitable of the four as well, since ten seeds are worth more than the three ingredients even when those ingredients are iridium grade. Everything that comes out of the bed counts as forage, so the Foraging skill rather than Farming decides how good the harvest turns out.

Growing

Tilled soil and a week of watering is the whole routine. The plants grow in two stages, and each one gives a single item before the tile empties again.

Four full rounds fit inside Summer if the first goes in on the opening day, and a sowing made later than the twenty-first will not finish. Each round starts from empty soil, so any fertiliser laid down is spent along with the harvest and has to be bought again. Sowing the patch in one block rather than a few tiles at a time keeps that cost predictable.

The middle stage looks dreadful. The sprouts at that point resemble dead and dried-out plants, and clearing them in good faith destroys a perfectly healthy bed. The plants only look like themselves in the final days before harvest.

Harvest quality follows the Foraging skill instead of the Farming one, so time spent picking berries in the woods improves the patch at home. At the top of that skill the Botanist profession lifts every foraged item to the best grade, and a cheap craft becomes premium produce.

The patch needs no Scarecrow, because crows leave wild-seed plants alone. That makes these beds ideal for the awkward corners of the farm that no Scarecrow reaches.

Ginger Island treats them badly. A harvested tile there can come back as rough, untilled ground and lose its fertiliser in the process, so island space is better used for conventional crops.

Buying

These are made and traded rather than bought.

The crafting route needs one of each Summer forage item, and all three turn up on a single circuit of the valley: Spice Berries in the woods, Grapes on the bushes along the paths, Sweet Peas out in the open country. Three items becoming ten seeds is the best ratio any of the wild-seed recipes offers.

A Spice Berry dropped into the Seed Maker returns a packet or three of Summer Seeds. That is the route for a farm holding Spice Berries but no Sweet Pea, and it also means a bed can renew itself from part of its own harvest.

The Crafts Room's Summer Foraging Bundle pays thirty seeds for its donation. The bundle asks for the same items the recipe wants, so one gathering trip can cover both the donation and a craft.

The Desert Trader swaps wild seeds on Saturdays and gives Summer Seeds for twice as many Fall Seeds. A farm that spent Fall crafting therefore has a Summer bed waiting for it, which is a tidy way to use up a surplus from a season already gone.

Uses

The craft stands on its own as a trade. Ten seeds fetch more at the bin than the three forage items spent making them, and that holds even for iridium ingredients, so a Summer glut of Spice Berries is always worth putting through the bench first. A farm with Botanist is the exception, since top-grade forage is worth more left as it is.

Two packets of any wild seed go into a Tea Sapling along with Fiber and Wood, so one craft is worth five saplings. Caroline posts that recipe over once she thinks well enough of the farm.

Grapes out of the bed are a genuine crop rather than mere forage. A Keg turns them into wine and a Preserves Jar turns them into jelly, and no other wild-seed mix produces anything a Keg will accept. That gives a Summer bed a second life as artisan stock.

Nobody in town welcomes a packet of seed as a present, so the stack is for sowing or for the bench.

Notes

Keep a few Spice Berries aside for the Seed Maker. One item renews a bed, while the full recipe wants three different things found in three different places.

Plant on the first and keep the cycle tight. Four rounds inside one Summer is possible, and every day the bed sits bare costs part of a round.

Save the Grapes rather than shipping them. They are the one part of the harvest a Keg will take, and bottled they are worth several times the fresh fruit.

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