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Tomato Seeds

Tomato Seeds
Tomato Seeds
Type Seed
Grows Tomato
Season Summer
Growth Time 11 days
Pierre 50g
JojaMart 62g
Cart 100 to 1,000g
Sell Price 25g

Tomato Seeds buy a plant rather than a single crop. Eleven days of watering bring the first fruit, and the plant then gives another every four days until the season turns, so one packet put down on the opening morning of Summer is picked five times before the tile clears. That turns a modest price at the counter into one of the steadier returns of the season, and it means the gold goes out once instead of every fortnight. A Preserves Jar lifts the fruit well past what the shipping bin pays for it, and a Seed Maker makes every summer after the first one free.


Growing

Eleven days to the first ripe fruit, then one fruit every four days off the same plant for as long as Summer lasts.

That regrowth is the entire case for the crop. A bed sown on the first morning fruits on the twelfth and again on the sixteenth, the twentieth, the twenty-fourth and the twenty-eighth, which is five pickings for one payment. Each day of delay costs part of a picking, so an early sowing is worth far more than a neat one, and seed in the ground after the seventeenth yields a single harvest and nothing further.

Fall kills the plant outright, so the whole bed clears at the season change and the tiles have to be sown again from scratch. Inside the Greenhouse, and on the farm plot over on Ginger Island, the season never turns, and a tomato bed in either place keeps fruiting every four days indefinitely.

Regrowth also changes what watering equipment is worth. A tile holding a tomato is occupied for the whole month, so a Sprinkler laid across a tomato bed earns its keep every single day rather than standing idle between plantings. Speed-Gro, by contrast, only shortens the first eleven days and does nothing at all for the cycle afterwards.

Buying

Pierre's General Store keeps the packet on the shelf right through Summer. JojaMart stocks the identical seed and charges more for it, so the warehouse membership is no help on this crop.

A boat tied up at the Night Market trades in seed on the second of the three Winter evenings, and Tomato Seeds are on its counter for what Pierre asks. Stock laid in that night puts the bed in the soil at dawn on the first of Summer rather than after a walk into town, which is worth a whole picking by the end of the month.

The Traveling Cart carries the packet occasionally and prices it far above the shop, so she is a last resort for a farm that let the season open with no seed in the chest.

The cheapest route of all appears after the first harvest. One tomato fed to a Seed Maker yields fresh packets, so a single bought bed supplies every bed that follows it. Treasure rooms deep in the Skull Cavern hold the seeds in stacks as well, which suits a farmer who would rather spend bombs than gold.

Uses

The Preserves Jar is the right machine for this fruit. A jar doubles the crop's base value and adds a flat sum on top, which at the tomato's price comes out ahead of the juice a Keg would make, and it does the job in two or three days where the keg wants four. Jars standing beside a regrowing bed are fed every fourth morning without anybody planting a thing.

Tomatoes are a kitchen staple as well, so part of each picking is usually better held back for cooking than shipped whole, and the bed keeps supplying that without further planting.

Seed packets are received poorly as presents right across the village.

Notes

Sow on the first day of Summer or not at all. The value of this crop is in the number of pickings, and a few days lost at the start is a harvest lost at the end.

Buy the seed at the Night Market in the depths of Winter. The price matches Pierre's, and a chest of packets waiting in Winter removes any reason to lose the first morning of Summer.

Stand a Seed Maker beside the bed. After one summer the crop pays for its own replanting, and the seed money can go to something that will not reproduce.

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