Is the garden a waste?

[thefollowingcharacters]

It doesn't seem any different than just using soil.

[CaptainX3]

I was wondering the same thing, doesn't seem to do anything special...

[Kebuder]

Garden is faster then the basic soil

[thefollowingcharacters]

After experimenting, yes, a garden is faster than soil.

[PhailRaptor]

The Garden is an intermediate speed between just using Soil, and building a Farm. Though if you know how to make Farms, then yes the Garden is kind of a waste. You can't get the Soil back from it that you'd need to make a Farm to replace it.

[Titansfury]

Soil takes 180 seconds to grow a Crop. Gardens are 120 seconds. Farms are 90 seconds.

Gardens can be a decent investment in the early game as long as it's only one or two. Later on when you have plenty of Planks and Bricks you will want to sell the gardens and replace them with farms.

[Ninisty]

Garden isn't worth it purely based on the fact that Soil can become hard to get at the later game. Needing to spend tons of resources just to find it.
It's so easy to sustain on berries and soil until your villagers are capable of upgrading your Soil to Farms rather then Garden. Just skip the Garden unless you're actually struggling.

[Myth Alric]

I still have never gotten more than one soil in any game, no matter how many packs I buy.

[Bad Cookies]

Originally posted by Myth Alric:

I still have never gotten more than one soil in any game, no matter how many packs I buy.

i get them all the time from Reap and Sow purchase. i play on peaceful though

[Ninisty]

The Plains exploration card has a good chance of yielding soil. Good luck friend

[iofdoom]

The graveyard (combine 2 dead bodies) yeilds soil reliably as well

[missiloon]

In my latest game I had 3 soil but took a while. Not sure why but I prefer many chickens and combine 2 eggs as a good resource.

[Buntkreuz]

Originally posted by Ninisty:

Garden isn't worth it purely based on the fact that Soil can become hard to get at the later game. Needing to spend tons of resources just to find it.
It's so easy to sustain on berries and soil until your villagers are capable of upgrading your Soil to Farms rather then Garden. Just skip the Garden unless you're actually struggling.

It literally only costs 3 gold to get the starter pack that contains soil with a high chance.
I was constantly selling it while having over 200 coins left over.
Soil isnt hard to get at all.
Minor hint, you commonly get more gold by selling what you get right away.
I was gaining coin by simply buying the first pack and selling all that it offered.
Soil alone is worth 3 coins, which is a free pack.
I made over 40 coins out of 6 in the early game just by doing this.

[Bigger Assed Elephant]

Gotta do gardens. If you make gardens then you can get soil again from the 3 gold pack, else you're buying 10 gold reap and sow to find more soil and that's no way to run.

[xqz36xq]

I believe garden is as a waste as a lumber or quarry.

[Ohagi-Chan]

Originally posted by Argentum:

I made over 40 coins out of 6 in the early game just by doing this.

Make incredible profit without doing a minute of work, with this one crazy trick!