Planting blueberries

[City Builder]

Hey,

So I must be doing something wrong to plant blueberries.

I have the blueberry seeds in my characters hand and i right click the dirt/ground area outside of my safe house and I then see that I can pick up with the E key blueberries twigs or some such name. I leave them alone assuming they must grow.

I returned to it later to find that there were no blueberry bushes growing there and nothing to pick up.

I tried using a hoe to settle the soil first but all that did was to dig out the ground.

How do I go about planting crops and get them to grow instead of disappear?

Thanks

[moosc]

Right click with the hoe to hoe.
You also must have water close.
Any way don't know if this spplies to Alpha 6 version yet.

[City Builder]

Do you hoe before trying to plant the seeds?

[moosc]

Yes
Hoe then plant.
if water is close then the soil turns dark colour.

[Rubberbutt]

I actually tought myself that last night. You need the garden hoe. A right click while holding it willl prepare a patch of grass for planting. Once prepared, the seed will create the sprout like before, but this time it will be attached to the ground, not just spawned like a drop, and start growing. It takes a little time for each crop to develop, but if you prepare the garden properly, and don't step on the plants, they'll remain in the ground and keep producing over and over. If after harvesting, the plant spits out of the ground and the dirt patch reverts to normal dirt, it's too dry there. My solution is to plant in rows of 4, with 1 voxel hole at the end of the row, which I dump a bucket of water into. If you're garden is already near a body of water, you might not need that. I put a perimeter fence around the garden as well, just to keep myself from accidentally trampling my own plants. If you wanted, you could even constuct it on the roof or balconies of your home, by ferrying the dirt up and making a sort of planter box set up. It might even work indoors, I don't know. I assumed sunlight would be required. Once you've got it set up, blueberry bishes produce 3 berries each harvest, potato plants 5, and corn 3. That list is also in order of how long each plant takes to fully mature.

[City Builder]

Ahh thanks. I guess it was the water that I was missing on my last attempt a few minutes ago after hoe'ing the ground. I got my taters and blueberries from it, but I had to hoe the ground and plant the seed immediately else the ground turned back to unhoed ground within a few seconds. I'll have to try placing a irrigation ditch next to them and filling it with water.