Questions about farming

[speedY [ Я v Ь ]]

1. When is the best time to start planting
2. When I choose wheat etc do the farmers plant it immediately or do they know when to plant and when not? Because I choosed wheat for year 1 and flax for year 2 and they removed wheat for flax during autumn.

[OSculton]

1. Start in Spring - March first year, I think you can plant after the harvest also if you have the time before winter, if not just wait for early Spring - March.
2.I think they can not "plant" in winter, but in reality later than spring has no sense except you just want at least some of it no matter the loses.

[speedY [ Я v Ь ]]

Originally posted by OSculton:

1. Start in Spring - March first year, I think you can plant after the harvest also if you have the time before winter, if not just wait for early Spring - March.
2.I think they can not "plant" in winter, but in reality later than spring has no sense except you just want at least some of it no matter the loses.

They planted flax in autumn and it's still growing even in the winter, I thought it will die during winter.

[VDmitry]

While you can saw in March it is expected you do that October-November )

[lodewijk [NL}]

there is this little sun logo in the bottom right corner of the screen.

hover your mouse over it, it shows exactly what season is for what.

harvest starts at the start of autumn. followed by plowing, also in autumn, followed by seeding also in autumn.

then winter passes without anything happening, then your crops start growing in spring and summer, then you start the harvest again at the start of autumn.

[Quantum Columbo]

Does anyone know how many families one morgen of land takes?
Is it 1 Familiy = 1 morgen or different?

[lodewijk [NL}]

Originally posted by Quantum Columbo:

Does anyone know how many families one morgen of land takes?
Is it 1 Familiy = 1 morgen or different?

i have not looked that deep into it, but i could make a guess based on the naming.

morgen means "Morning"

this unit of measure was called this way because 1 morgen denoted the amount of land "1 adult male behind an ox dragging a 1 blade plough could work in 1 "morning" amount of time."

so 1, morgen per family sounds about right i think, i have no actual idea if its actually like this in the game though.

[VDmitry]

Originally posted by Quantum Columbo:

Does anyone know how many families one morgen of land takes?
Is it 1 Familiy = 1 morgen or different?

You can only estimate that yourself.

Personally I get 6-8 familes to do the job within a month. They can do 3 x 1 morgen. This is all by hands.