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Yam Seeds

Yam Seeds
Yam Seeds
Type Seed
Grows Yam
Season Fall
Growth Time 10 days
Pierre 60g
JojaMart 75g
Cart 100 to 1,000g
Sell Price 30g

Yam Seeds are the Fall packet that gets its own cost back fastest. Ten days of watering turn the seed into a yam worth several times what the packet cost, and because the plant is cut once and finished, the gold arrives in a single lump rather than trickling in across a month. That makes the yam the sensible opener for a thin autumn purse: buy a bed, lift it on the tenth, and the second bed is paid for out of the first. A Preserves Jar pushes each root well past what the shipping bin offers, and a Seed Maker makes every autumn after the first one free.

The in-game description reads: Plant these in the fall. Takes 10 days to mature.


Growing

Ten days of watering take the seed to a harvest, and lifting the plant clears the tile for good.

Ten days fits twice into Fall with days to spare. A bed sown on the opening morning is lifted on the tenth, a second bed off the same tiles comes in on the twentieth, and the eighteenth is the last day a seed can go down and still finish before Winter. Anything sown later is lost when the ground freezes under it.

Nothing regrows, so each round means buying or making seed again. That is the yam's weakness beside a cranberry bed, and the reason it is usually run early in the season while money is short and then given over to something that repeats.

Speed-Gro worked into the soil before the shoots appear shortens those ten days, which can squeeze a third bed out of the season on a farm with fertiliser to spare. The Agriculturist profession does the same thing across the whole field without any fertiliser at all.

The Greenhouse and the Ginger Island farm ignore the calendar, so a yam bed under glass can be cut and resown the year round rather than for one month of it.

Buying

Pierre's General Store carries the packet throughout Fall. JojaMart stocks the identical seed at a higher price, so the warehouse has nothing to offer on this crop.

Yam Seeds also reach the Night Market, on the third and last of its Winter evenings, aboard the boat that deals in seed and priced as the General Store prices them. Buying there puts the first bed in the ground at dawn on the first of Fall rather than after a walk into town, and on a crop that manages only two rounds that one morning counts.

One lifted yam fed to a Seed Maker returns a fresh packet or two, which is the cheapest route of all once the first bed is in. Treasure rooms down in the Skull Cavern hold five to twenty seeds at a time, so a miner can skip the shop entirely. The Traveling Cart lists the packet occasionally and asks far more for it than Pierre does.

Uses

The Preserves Jar is the machine for this root. Pickling doubles the root's base value and adds a flat sum to that, which at the yam's price just edges out the juice a Keg would brew, and pickling is finished inside three days while the keg is still working. One Fall bed put through jars therefore clears sooner and pays a little better than the same bed sent to kegs.

The yam is a kitchen vegetable as well, so part of each bed is usually worth holding back for cooking rather than shipping whole.

Seed packets are unwelcome as presents anywhere in the village, so a spare stack belongs in the soil or in the Seed Maker.

Notes

Open Fall with yams if money is tight. The bed returns its cost on the tenth and funds whatever goes in next, which is why it suits a first autumn better than the slower, dearer crops.

Stop sowing after the eighteenth. A seed put in on the nineteenth is still a plant when Winter arrives, and the tile is wasted along with the packet.

Send the harvest through jars rather than kegs. The margin is a little better and the turnaround a day or two quicker, which matters on a crop that only produces twice before the season ends.

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