Summer Squash

Summer Squash

Type	Crop
Season	Summer
Growth Time	6 days
Regrowth	Every 3 days

Summer Squash is a regrowing Summer vegetable. Its seeds turn up from digging, fishing and trading, and a Seed Maker multiplies them. Once a plant is established, it gives a fresh squash every few days for the rest of the Summer. Each squash is cheap, but the steady flow adds up, and a Preserves Jar turns it into pickles worth about three times the raw price. It is a low-effort crop for a corner of the Summer farm.

The in-game description reads: A curved yellow squash that is harvested while immature, and still tender.

Growing

Summer Squash Seeds come mostly from seed spots, the grass tufts that appear on the ground, and from artifact spots. Grass tufts give them far more often than artifact spots. The seeds turn up from late Spring until the last week of Summer, so the best time to look is the first days of the season. Golden Fishing Treasure Chests, the Prize Machine in the Mayor's Manor and Raccoon requests can also give them. The Raccoon Wife's Shop trades the seeds for Sap instead of gold.

The first harvest comes after about a week. After that, the plant gives a new squash every three days until Fall arrives. A seed planted on the first day of Summer therefore keeps producing through the whole season. Seeds found later in Summer still pay off, but with fewer harvests left.

A Seed Maker turns harvested squash back into seeds. That is the easiest way to build up a field without searching the map for grass tufts every Summer.

Speed-Gro shortens only the first growth, not the regrowth, so Quality Fertiliser or Deluxe Fertiliser is the better choice for a regrowing crop like this.

Prices

A raw Summer Squash sells for very little. Silver, gold and iridium squash sell for a quarter, a half and double the base price more, and the Tiller profession adds 10%.

A Preserves Jar is by far the best use. Pickles are worth twice the base price plus a flat 50g. On a cheap vegetable that flat bonus makes the pickle worth about three times the raw squash. A Keg makes juice worth only a little more than twice the raw price and takes much longer. The Artisan profession adds 40% to both. Machines ignore the quality of the input, so normal squash are the ones to pickle.

Uses

Summer Squash is mainly a selling and pickling crop. It can also be eaten raw for a little energy.

At the dye pots in Emily's and Haley's house, Summer Squash counts as a yellow dye.

Most villagers like Summer Squash, as they like most vegetables. Abigail, Haley, Jas, Sam and Vincent dislike it. It is a filler gift.

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