I Just Found This Out About Gardens.

[MycroftCanadaNS]

I am speaking to a very good friend, and he started testing how many seeds you can planet before the bots will start attacking. He told me if you planet only 8 seeds (2 per plot - 4 small plots) the bots will not attack. Once you plant the 9th seed they will attack you.

You are able to plant multiple

[AllOutWar76]

This only applies to the lower tier seeds. When you start planting things like broccoli and pineapples, bot attacks trigger with far less planted.

There's a post on the forums somewhere where a person listed the values from the game files.

[Dakota Whitemane]

Tomatos, Beets and carrots are all 1 point each. Potatos are 1.5 point each. Oranges, bananas, and blueberries are 2 points each. Broccoli and pineapples are 3 each. The last two are considered high value and can add tapebots to the attack waves. The threshold is 10 points for the first level of attacks. If you have a lot of high point/value crops you can get farmbots spawning as well along side the general level based horde of totes, hay, and sometimes tapebots.

[Boundless]

plant huge gardens on a hill top with no access other than chairs to climb ..bot raids no issues...they despawn after 4 mins ..or 4 am as game counts time

[[SG] Wepwawet]

ok seeing as people are testing plots lets get a few more 'tests' out of the way, place 10 low tier plants at 23:50 at 00:10 to 00:30 they will declare war, then right after spam down the rest of your field. not counting broccoli and pineapples you can build a nice farm in less than 30 seconds meaning your crop will full grow NO LATER than 23:00 meaning you can loot it all back down to do it again even before the 3 tote bots attack.
if you do it with tier 2 plants it will be 2 - 3 hay bots and 2 - 3 tote bots.

you can go ahead and place 10 in some far off land and let it gather attention there and just start your farm once war is declared (this works better in co op).

now the 'fix'. simply have the wave update every 1 hour, meaning you cant cheat the system like that.

[MycroftCanadaNS]

Thanks guys.

This is such a fantastic game.