The most profitable crops in every season

Which seeds pay in each season, including quick crops, regrowers and crops that cost more time than they return.

How to compare crops

Compare profit per harvest (bin price minus seed cost) with days to that profit. A four-day turnip nets 15g and a nine-day cabbage nets 110g, but the better choice depends on how many times you can replant. The crops page computes both and includes regrow cycles, so you can compare any pair exactly.

Use these rules when planning a field:

1. A crop that regrows never needs a new seed after the first, so its profit per tile keeps climbing with every harvest.
2. A fast crop is safer: it can be planted later in the season and still finish.
3. The planting day does not count as a growing day. A four-day turnip planted on the 1st is ready on the 5th; a 4th-day harvest would count the planting day incorrectly. Crops that are still growing at the season change are removed (farming rules).

Spring

Turnip Seed is cheap, grows quickly and can produce about six harvests in a full spring if replanted immediately. Strawberry Seed costs 300g, but each three-day regrow after the first harvest brings another 125g. A field of strawberries earns more than turnips by the middle of the season.

Pea Seed costs the same as strawberry and follows exactly the same growth and regrowth schedule, but sells for a little more. That makes peas the higher-return spring regrower, not a filler crop.

Summer

Cucumber Seed costs 25g and sells for 40g after four days, offering a quick turnaround but not the highest summer profit. One watermelon planting has a larger net return. Tomato Seed remains below its seed cost after the second harvest, turns profitable on the third and then passes repeated cucumber plantings. Plant Watermelon Seed early. It cannot finish if planted on or after day 20 (season rules).

Fall

Sweet Potato Seed gives a quick return, while Onion Seed keeps earning through regrowth. Rice Seed has the highest full-season total, but onion narrowly beats Wheat Seed. Rice and wheat take nine days to reach their first harvest. A planting through the nineteenth still matures; day 20 is too late.

Winter

In winter, Beet Seed gives a quick return, Cauliflower Seed matures sooner, daikon gives the larger net return from one planting and Snow Peas Seed keeps producing after it matures. Snow waters crops on the 4-6 inclement days, leaving those mornings open for other work. The season page shows the daily forecast pattern.

Using the greenhouse

The small and large greenhouses grow any crop in any season. They are the only places where an out-of-season crop survives the rollover (farming rules). They are most useful for:

1. Regrowers year-round. A greenhouse full of strawberries, tomatoes or onions keeps producing in every season without replanting.
2. Late-season rescues. If the season is almost over, a greenhouse lets you plant anything without the countdown.

Greenhouse placement and sprinkler layouts are covered in the greenhouse guide. The greenhouse is a building from the carpenter; its blueprint requirements are listed on the farm page.

Crops with other uses

A few crops exist mainly for recipes, requests or museum sets, and selling them is usually a loss:

• Flowers like Daffodil Seed, Tulip Seed and Lilac Seed pay poorly per tile but are needed for requests and gifts. Grow a few and keep them.
• Catmint Seed and other herb-style crops are worth more as cooking ingredients than in the bin; run them through the kitchen first (cooking).
• The single-season crops with a 9-day grow (cabbage, watermelon, pumpkin, daikon) still mature and earn a net profit when planted through the nineteenth. From the twentieth onward they cannot finish before the season change.