Greenhouse questions

[Clovis Sangrail]

I am just one large goat milk away from completing the pantry bundles and getting a greenhouse, so I have some questions about how to use it --

1. Do fruit trees in the greenhouse bear fruit all year? Can I plant a peach tree in the greenhouse and harvest peaches in all four seasons, or is it still limited to summer?

2. How many fruit trees can I pack in there? The wiki seems to say I can only put them around the border, which would limit me to 18 or 20. Can I plant fruit trees in the middle, which would let me put in 30 to 40?

3. Do crop grow in winter in the greenhouse? Do they grow regardless of season? Can I grow starfruit in there all year long?

4. Do weeds grow in the greenhouse? Does the soil revert and need to be hoed at the start of each season?

5. Finally, what do you folks put in your greenhouses? My first thought was to initially fill it full of a bunch of peach trees if I can plant them in the middle and if they will produce peaches all year, then just harvest every three days. Then long term, I would make them into jelly or wine.

Thanks.

-- Farmer Edd

[wilco64256]

1. Yes.

2. Yes.

3. Yes.

4. No.

5. Whatever I feel like. I have two of every kind of fruit tree around the edges and then some ancient fruit, some cranberries, some starfruit, some strawberries.

[Katalia19]

1. They do bear fruit all year.
2. You *can* put them in the middle if you want, though the middle is best reserved for crops.
3. Crops grow all year, too.
4. Weeds don't grow, and soil does not need to be hoed at the start of each season.
5. Ancient Fruit and Star Fruit mainly.

[Syfe Kuroslayer]

Im only going to answer 5 as everyone else pretty much sumed up the rest.

5. I have 24 plants of each of the seasonal berries (i know its not the best way of making money i planted them before the update which nerfed them and its just nice to have them in there otherwise) the last quadrant is ancient fruit. For the extra 2 rows i have some peppers and tomatoes for cooking.

I like how the trees on the border of the greenhouse was once a bug. Patched out. but returned an update later as a feature.

[Fennekchu]

Ancient fruit is probably the most profitable greenhouse item since it keeps on producing forever without you having to deal with replanting them, making seeds, ect.

[GlassDeviant]

Putting trees anywhere but around the edge is a waste, you should be doing ancient fruit in the farmable plots.

Here is the best unmodded greenhouse plan:

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Greenhouse

Use the map under the heading "Fruit Tree Arrangement."

[I Kinda Fail]

The greenhouse just acts as if the season never changes. You can plant any seasonal crop in there. If you want, you can buy like 90 pumpkin seeds, and grow a few year round.

I typically do a bunch of quality sprinklers, like, 1 for blueberries, 1 for cranberries, 1 for ancient fruit, etc. as well as a few sprinklers for loved gifts.

The more popular idea is to line the walls with fruit trees (I think I fit 14 in there comfortable, without getting in my way) and fill the actual soil with some combination of starfruit, hops, cranberries or ancient fruit. Fruit trees are a waste, financially, but if you don't care about maximizing profits and just think peaches are neat, then yes, you can totally plant like 40 trees in there.

[StarNeverDoes]

1. Yes 2. Yes 3. Yes 4. No 5. Plant whatever you want. Usually i plant rare seeds or, as wilco said, ancient fruit, starfruit, cranberrys, and strawberrys.

[zyzz]

I do mostly ancient fruit in my greenhouse with fruit trees around the edges. I had 1-2 of each type of tree but I might just dig them up and replace them with pomegranates that I don't need any specific fruit for bundles/shipping/gifts/cooking/etc. It makes it easier to carry the fruit tree fruit back to the kegs.

[Clovis Sangrail]

Thanks to everyone who responded. I think I know how to proceed now. I was intending just to fill that greenhouse with fruit trees so I could get some low maintenance income, especially in the winter, but you've all given me good ideas for those inside squares.

Look like I need to head back into the mines to get some quartz for those sprinklers.

Thanks again.

[CalhounMKZ]

Originally posted by Clovis Sangrail:

Thanks to everyone who responded. I think I know how to proceed now. I was intending just to fill that greenhouse with fruit trees so I could get some low maintenance income, especially in the winter, but you've all given me good ideas for those inside squares.

Look like I need to head back into the mines to get some quartz for those sprinklers.

Thanks again.

If you have any broken cds or glasses from fishing put them through a recycling machine. They will turn into refined quartz saving you the coal.

[GlassDeviant]

You can buy ready made iridium sprinklers from Krobus in the sewers, one every Friday.

[Blind]

I planted cranberries until I could afford to fill it multiple times with starfruit or ancient fruits.

[GlassDeviant]

Krobus sprinklers are cheap by the time you can get to him, you need to donate 60/95 items to get the key. If you aren't rich enough to spend 10k once a week at this point, you're not trying very hard. Although I craft them as well as buying them from him (it?), my biggest problem is that he only sells one per week.

[Magzie]

I only ever grow Strawberries in the green house and then slow upgrade each plot to Ancient Fruit. Just seemed wrong planting trees in the Greenhouse so I never have. That being said never put Fruit tree in the planting Area. There are way to many crop that will earn way more gold and in the end Fruit Trees suck for gold making and are only used as a filler for space. Just make Crystalarium in that space and sell gems you will make loads more.

[GlassDeviant]

Fill the quarry with crystallaria. Fruit trees are very profitable, if you make the fruit into wine and age them to gold (not to iridium!), especially pomegranate.