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Growing season for seeds/crops B42
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Hey guys,

I did it for myself, however, i am publishing the guide just in case someone find it informative and helpful.

What i am doing here is to place all seeds i have encounter in the game with the growing season. Why? simple, i am tired of taking all seeds and check 1 by one before plowing. So now i check the table with the current month to plow without carrying all my seeds.

Legend
So, the information in the table is all from the game.

  • 0; Growing Season
  • 1; Best month to seed.
  • -1; worst month to seed IN the growing season.
  • -2; worst month to seed outside the growing season.

For example, growing season from march to june will be 0, with -1 if the worst month is June and -2 if it's july, and 1 if march it is the best.

Difference between -1 and -2, in game is marked the growing season with the worst month, sometimes the worst month is between the growing season. However, i still don't know if it's important, because i am not sowing outside the growing season.
Seasons
seasons
Barley
Basil
Bell pepper
black sage
cabbage
cauliflower
coriander
corn
cucumber
green peas
habanero

January
February
March
0
0
0
April
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
1
May
1
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
June
0
0
1
0
0
0
July
-2
-1
0
-2
August
-1
-2
Sept
0
October
0
November
-2
December

seasons
hops
jalapeño
marigold
onion
oregano
parsely
potato
pumpkin
rye
sage
sugar beets
sweet potato

January
February
March
1
0
0
0
0
0
April
0
0
1
1
1
0
1
1
May
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
June
0
0
0
July
-2
0
0
August
-2
-2
Sept
0
0
October
0
0
November
-2
-2
December

Seasons
thyme
tomato
watermelon
wheat
zucchini
Hemp
Kale
Tobacco
Chives
Flax

January
February
March
0
0
April
1
0
0
1
0
May
0
0
1
0
0
0
June
0
-2
0
1
0
July
-2
0
-1
-1
August
1
-1
Sept
0
0
-2
0
October
0
1
1
November
-2
-1
-1
December
seasons
Garlic
Poppies
Lavender
Roses
Sunflower
Chamomille
Broadleaf
Broccoli
Comfrey
Mallow

January
February
March
April
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
May
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
June
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
July
0
1
-1
-1
August
0
-1
-1
-1
-1
Sept
0
-1
0
0
October
-1
November
December

Seasons
seasons
Leek
Lemongrass
Lettuce
Rosemary
Mint
Radish
Soybeans
Spinach
Strawberry


January
February
March
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
April
0
0
1
0
1
1
0
1
1
May
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
June
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
July
0
0
0
0
0
1
August
0
0
1
0
1
-1
Sept
0
0
0
0
-1
October
0
0
0
0
November
December
Missing information.
To be added more seeds, i didn't find all seeds in game, so probably i will be missing some of them, so if you guys have any missing seed and i can add it to the table it could be great so we can help each others.

Also, i don't know what will happen if you plow in the worst month, or outisde the growing season, i don't know if you will have less yield, it will die, will have more diseases.

Also, i don't know if you need to plow before the growing season, or during the growing season.

Any other information we can gather to make the farm great again, will be welcome. At the moment this is merely raw info from seed packets for the B42 growing seasons. This will be useful only if you don't disable the growing season.
11 Comments
♥♥♥♥♥♥  [author] Jan 21 @ 2:53pm 
According to Indie stone, the season grow for the crops has been fixed:

"- Fixed an error with the farming code where a plant's bad month would be offset forwards by one month, resulting in crops being incorrectly cursed in some circumstances."

So the guide should be useful from now on.
thx
♥♥♥♥♥♥  [author] Jan 7 @ 1:00pm 
Added a disclaimer as the growing season is currently bug in the unstable branch.
♥♥♥♥♥♥  [author] Jan 3 @ 7:48am 
Updated: Added new months for some seeds, either have beeen updated in game or i noted wrong information. Added, garlic, poppies, lavender, roses, sunflower, chamomille, broadleaf, broccoli, comfrey, mallow, flax, leek, lemongrass,lettuce, rosemary, mint, radish, soybeans, spinach, strawberry.

Some seeds seems to have different information in the package than in the discovered media. For example "Onions" in the package says only 1 month to seed, but in the discovered media it shows 2 different months.
Dreadful Wonderland Jan 2 @ 8:21pm 
garlic: august/september
poor month: october
Oriedroc Jan 1 @ 5:49pm 
Marigold/Poppies/Lavender/Roses/Sunflower/Chamomille(all of them share the same growth season) : April,May,June

best month: May

I also discovered that if you click on the "Discovered media" button on the character menu, the tab named "agriculture" shows all the growth seasons you have learned
♥♥♥♥♥♥  [author] Dec 30, 2024 @ 2:09am 
@oriedroc, me neither, sometimes the poor months are inside the growing season which makes no sense and other times are outside lol, we will need to test what it means.

Thanks for the chives
Oriedroc Dec 29, 2024 @ 9:29am 
Chives: April/May/June/July/August

It also says the poor months are July/August but I don't really understand what it means
Jakov Dec 27, 2024 @ 2:08pm 
Hemp : September/October/November, Best month October / Worst Novembre

Kale : March through August, Best month April/August / Worst September

Tobacco : May/June/July, Best June / Worst July
♥♥♥♥♥♥  [author] Dec 27, 2024 @ 1:56pm 
thanks, if you have any other seed not listed, like hemp or tobacco and you know the growing season let me know!