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Summer Squash Seeds

Summer Squash Seeds
Summer Squash Seeds
Type Seed
Grows Summer Squash
Season Summer
Growth Time 6 days
Sell Price 20g

Summer Squash Seeds cannot be bought with gold anywhere in the valley. The one reliable counter for them belongs to the raccoon's wife at the Giant Stump in Cindersap Forest, and she deals only in barter: a handful of Sap buys a packet. Every other route is a windfall, and most of those only hand the seeds out in the few weeks either side of the turn from Spring into Summer. The plant is one of the quicker earners of the season, since it matures in under a week and then keeps bearing every third day until Summer ends. A free, unlimited trade feeding a fast-regrowing crop makes a chest of Sap worth far more than it looks.


Growing

A packet sown in tilled Summer soil matures across five quick stages in less than a week. After that first picking the plant bears again every three days, so one sowing works for the whole season.

Planting early is what the crop rewards. A bed sown on the first of Summer is picking by the seventh and gives harvest after harvest until the season turns, which is about the best return any Summer vegetable offers for a single planting. A sowing late in the month still ripens, but the plant has little time left to use its regrowth, so the value falls away sharply with every day of delay.

The Greenhouse and the Ginger Island plot keep the plant going all year. Because it regrows instead of dying back, a bed under glass is a permanent fixture: planted once, then picked every few days indefinitely. That is exactly the sort of crop the Greenhouse's limited space is best spent on.

Buying

Mr Raccoon has to be helped first. Clearing the Giant Stump in Cindersap Forest brings the family back, and completing the first request he leaves there brings his wife out the next day to open her shop.

Her stall takes no money. Summer Squash Seeds cost Sap, the commonest by-product of chopping trees and emptying a Tapper, and the trade is open all year in any quantity. That makes it the only route a farm can plan around, so a chest of Sap from a Winter spent cutting wood becomes a full field in Summer.

Everything else is luck, and nearly all of it is tied to a narrow stretch of the calendar running from the last days of Spring to the twentieth of Summer. Seed Spots, the wriggling patches dug up with a hoe, are the commonest of these. A golden fishing Treasure Chest holds one now and then. So does the odd crate or barrel broken open underground, whether in the Mines, far down in the Skull Cavern or inside the Volcano Dungeon, though that happens rarely. Mystery Boxes and their golden version turn them up as well, and an Iridium Golem leaves one behind roughly half the times it drops anything, which makes a deep cavern run a decent supply for a well-armed farm.

The Prize Machine in the Mayor's Manor gives a packet as its first prize, so the earliest Prize Tickets a farm collects can be spent on getting the crop started.

The Seed Maker ends the dependence altogether. A Summer Squash put into the machine comes back as seed with no regard for the date, so once the first bed exists it keeps itself supplied without further trades.

Uses

The squash itself is where the value sits. A Preserves Jar pickles it and a Keg juices it, and either one fetches far more than the raw vegetable, which suits a crop that produces in volume right through the season.

The raccoon family is worth finishing for its own sake. The requests that follow the first one open the rest of the wife's stock, including the Raccoon Journal and the Raccoon Hat, so the Sap trade is usually only the first reason to keep walking out to the stump.

Villagers do not care for a packet of seed as a gift, so the stack is for planting, the Seed Maker or the barter counter.

Notes

Stockpile Sap before Summer. It piles up from every tree felled and every Tapper emptied, and it is the only currency that buys this seed on demand.

Dig every Seed Spot found between late Spring and the middle of Summer. That window is the only time most of the random routes give this seed at all.

Put the first bed under glass if there is room. A regrowing crop in the Greenhouse keeps paying long after the outdoor field has gone, and it needs no further seed.

All Seeds

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name Image Grows Season Pierre
Acorn Acorn Oak Tree All -
Amaranth Seeds Amaranth Seeds Amaranth Fall 70g
Ancient Seeds Ancient Seeds Ancient Fruit Spring; Summer; Fall -
Apple Sapling Apple Sapling Apple Fall 4,000g
Apricot Sapling Apricot Sapling Apricot Spring 2,000g
Artichoke Seeds Artichoke Seeds Artichoke Fall 30g (Year 2+)
Banana Sapling Banana Sapling Banana All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley -
Bean Starter Bean Starter Green Bean Spring 60g
Beet Seeds Beet Seeds Beet Fall -
Blue Grass Starter Blue Grass Starter Blue Grass Spring; Summer; Fall -
Blueberry Seeds Blueberry Seeds Blueberry Summer 80g
Bok Choy Seeds Bok Choy Seeds Bok Choy Fall 50g
Broccoli Seeds Broccoli Seeds Broccoli Fall -
Cactus Seeds Cactus Seeds Cactus Fruit All -
Carrot Seeds Carrot Seeds Carrot Spring -
Cauliflower Seeds Cauliflower Seeds Cauliflower Spring 80g
Cherry Sapling Cherry Sapling Cherry Spring 3,400g
Coffee Bean Coffee Bean - Spring; Summer -
Corn Seeds Corn Seeds Corn Summer; Fall 150g
Cranberry Seeds Cranberry Seeds Cranberries Fall 240g
Eggplant Seeds Eggplant Seeds Eggplant Fall 20g
Fairy Seeds Fairy Seeds Fairy Rose Fall 200g
Fall Seeds Fall Seeds Blackberry, Common Mushroom, Hazelnut, or Wild Plum Fall -
Fiber Seeds Fiber Seeds Fiber All -
Garlic Seeds Garlic Seeds Garlic Spring 40g (Year 2+)
Grape Starter Grape Starter Grape Fall 60g
Grass Starter Grass Starter Grass Spring; Summer; Fall 100g
Hops Starter Hops Starter Hops Summer 60g
Jazz Seeds Jazz Seeds Blue Jazz Spring 30g
Kale Seeds Kale Seeds Kale Spring 70g
Mahogany Seed Mahogany Seed Mahogany Tree All -
Mango Sapling Mango Sapling Mango All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley -
Maple Seed Maple Seed Maple Tree All -
Melon Seeds Melon Seeds Melon Summer 80g
Mixed Flower Seeds Mixed Flower Seeds Varies Spring Summer Fall -
Mixed Seeds Mixed Seeds Varies Spring Summer Fall -
Mossy Seed Mossy Seed Green Rain Tree All -
Mushroom Tree Seed Mushroom Tree Seed Mushroom Tree All -
Mystic Tree Seed Mystic Tree Seed Mystic Tree All -
Orange Sapling Orange Sapling Orange Summer 4,000g
Parsnip Seeds Parsnip Seeds Parsnip Spring 20g
Peach Sapling Peach Sapling Peach Summer 6,000g
Pepper Seeds Pepper Seeds Hot Pepper Summer 40g
Pine Cone Pine Cone Pine Tree All -
Pineapple Seeds Pineapple Seeds Pineapple All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley -
Pomegranate Sapling Pomegranate Sapling Pomegranate Fall 6,000g
Poppy Seeds Poppy Seeds Poppy Summer 100g
Potato Seeds Potato Seeds Potato Spring 50g
Powdermelon Seeds Powdermelon Seeds Powdermelon Winter -
Pumpkin Seeds Pumpkin Seeds Pumpkin Fall 100g
Qi Bean Qi Bean Qi Fruit All -
Radish Seeds Radish Seeds Radish Summer 40g
Rare Seed Rare Seed Sweet Gem Berry Fall -
Red Cabbage Seeds Red Cabbage Seeds Red Cabbage Summer 100g (Year 2+)
Rhubarb Seeds Rhubarb Seeds Rhubarb Spring -
Rice Shoot Rice Shoot Unmilled Rice Spring 40g
Spangle Seeds Spangle Seeds Summer Spangle Summer 50g
Spring Seeds Spring Seeds Wild Horseradish, Daffodil,; Leek, or Dandelion Spring -
Starfruit Seeds Starfruit Seeds Starfruit Summer -
Strawberry Seeds Strawberry Seeds Strawberry Spring -
Summer Seeds Summer Seeds Grape, Spice Berry,; or Sweet Pea Summer -
Summer Squash Seeds Summer Squash Seeds Summer Squash Summer -
Sunflower Seeds Sunflower Seeds Sunflower Summer; Fall 200g
Taro Tuber Taro Tuber Taro Root All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley -
Tea Sapling Tea Sapling Tea Leaves All -
Tomato Seeds Tomato Seeds Tomato Summer 50g
Tulip Bulb Tulip Bulb Tulip Spring 20g
Wheat Seeds Wheat Seeds Wheat Summer; Fall 10g
Winter Seeds Winter Seeds Crocus, Crystal Fruit,; Snow Yam, or Winter Root Winter -
Yam Seeds Yam Seeds Yam Fall 60g