how do i grow vegetables?

[Woldy]

i have gardens, but they dont seem to grow anything.

[huebnerrl]

So you have a back yard extension? Did you select the carrot from the backyard extension options in a house that has a family? Once you do that they will plow it up by hand and plant. The veg do not show up right away they have to grow.

[Cy]

give it time. They won't produce immidiatly. I would guess it takes 2-3 Years for them to give great harvest numbers. better to set them up as early as possible

[Dietre]

If you make a double house plot with a big back yard, use the carrot icon to pay for veggies. leave that house as free workers and you will veggies out the wazoo. I have 50 ish houses ONE house has a medium sized yard which is now level 3, 3 of the families are free labor and i grow so much veggies to have surplus of over 500 with a population creeping up around 350 total give or take. once i see the surplus start to trend down i can easily add another one in.

[huebnerrl]

Originally posted by Cy:

give it time. They won't produce immidiatly. I would guess it takes 2-3 Years for them to give great harvest numbers. better to set them up as early as possible

My experience is that if I plant the garden early on in year one they end up getting a harvest in the fall. Two or three decent sized veg gardens will provide lots of veg.

[Ava]

Make sure to make the plot extra large
burghs with larger veggie field size produce much more veggies per year

[Dietre]

Originally posted by Cy:

give it time. They won't produce immidiatly. I would guess it takes 2-3 Years for them to give great harvest numbers. better to set them up as early as possible

IF you can get the house down 1st thing you do and leave the one or two families as free labor you might get some b4 winter, usually the 1st spring you start to get veg. Its kinda off a bit, if they start their planting in the back yard by like late sept/oct, veggies will be ready come March , then they will plant again for a fall harvest.

[Woldy]

Originally posted by Cy:

give it time. They won't produce immidiatly. I would guess it takes 2-3 Years for them to give great harvest numbers. better to set them up as early as possible

i set them up pretty early and been sitting there for a few months, nothing grows.

[Ava]

Originally posted by Woldy:

Originally posted by Cy:

give it time. They won't produce immidiatly. I would guess it takes 2-3 Years for them to give great harvest numbers. better to set them up as early as possible

i set them up pretty early and been sitting there for a few months, nothing grows.

you have any free labor available?

[Woldy]

Originally posted by Ava:

Originally posted by Woldy:

i set them up pretty early and been sitting there for a few months, nothing grows.

you have any free labor available?

yea

[WeelieTired]

Originally posted by Dietre:

If you make a double house plot with a big back yard, use the carrot icon to pay for veggies. leave that house as free workers and you will veggies out the wazoo. I have 50 ish houses ONE house has a medium sized yard which is now level 3, 3 of the families are free labor and i grow so much veggies to have surplus of over 500 with a population creeping up around 350 total give or take. once i see the surplus start to trend down i can easily add another one in.

You just described a level of micromanage I didnt know existed.
This is probably my 1st problem with trying the huge garden home idea. That those people are assigned working elsewhere leaving little time for the gardening. I'll have to learn how to flip them.
@nd problem seems to be that Im doing larger lots and putting the 2nd home extension on most of them. Which ppl are saying deletes resources from some other house in the network.
Which fits my having a dozen egg farms, a handful of huge gardens, and zero food available most of the year... DOH.

[Murpheus]

Originally posted by WeelieTired:

@nd problem seems to be that Im doing larger lots and putting the 2nd home extension on most of them. Which ppl are saying deletes resources from some other house in the network.

I don't understand this point. Sure, you end up having to give this house twice as many resources because it has twice the occupancy once extended. But that's the same quantity of resources that two individual houses would require, so there's no difference. Except now you have twice the opportunity for an unassigned labor force to work the backyard industry.

Note: this doesn't scale for specific industries like the bakery or blacksmith (etc.), since all residents of the house get locked into making bread or weapons.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Image borrowed but this is veg gardens profitable. Creates markets. Place WELLS nearby everywhere adds water access and puts out fires asap.
This is really the only way to get food unless you use Import Bread eggs etc. aside from hunters and foridgers
Upgrade the Burgage lvl and also upgrade the amount of peeps can live there. Then there is plenty of workers for the veg gardens.
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