Crops & Tree Care

By growing crops on your farm you can sell them at the bazaar for profit, use them to fulfill villager requests, or cook meals with them in your kitchen.

This page offers a complete guide to farming for crops and fruits in Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar.

We’ll cover how to grow and care for your crops, how to raise their quality, and we’ll share some helpful tips to manage your farm’s fields efficiently.

How to Grow Crops

Step 1: Use the Hoe on any field to till the soil.

Step 2: Equip seeds from your bag and plant them in the tilled soil. You can only plant seeds that match the current season.

Step 3: Water your seeds using the Watering Can.

Remember to water your crops daily! Missing 2 days of watering will cause planted crops to wilt and die.

Step 4: Apply fertilizer to any tile to increase crop quality.

While this is not required for growth, it is highly recommended to get higher-quality results for more profit or for better recipes.

Step 5: When a crop is mature, just press the action button to harvest.

The crops will go into your bag and the soil will then be ready for tilling again.

Or for multi-yield crops, they will continue producing until their growth season ends.

Watering

Watering crops with your Watering Can is essential for crop growth. You should water at least once a day to keep your crops healthy.

If you skip a day, the crop wilts – though watering it the next day restores it back to life, but it won’t advance a growth stage that day.

If a wilted crop goes a second full day without water, it dies permanently. If that happens then you’ll need to use the Sickle to remove those dead crops from your field.

Double-Watering

Your soil will dry out ~10 hours after your first watering. This means you can water your crops two times in one day.

Watering twice per day significantly speeds up crop growth.

For example, a turnip that normally takes 4 days to grow can be harvested in just 3 days if watered twice daily.

You’ll see that double watering also increases how effective your Fertilizer is as well.

So double watering your crops is worth the effort if you can spare the time and stamina.

Using Sprinklers

Sprinklers are a late-game craftable item you can make at the Red Windmill after reaching Bazaar Rank 5 and purchasing the Purple Wonderstone from Felipe’s Fineries.

While optional, these do provide a major quality-of-life boost, since they let you spend your stamina on other activities.

Sprinklers automatically double-water the surrounding 8 tiles of crops at 6 AM and 4 PM each day. This leads to the same 1.4x boost in growth speed and fertilizer effectiveness.

Raising Crop Quality

Crop quality can be gradually increased with fertilizer.

Here’s the process to follow:

Step 1: Plant crop seeds and apply fertilizer daily. For fertilizer to take effect, the crop must also be watered that same day.

Step 2: Harvest and process your final crops into seeds at the Windmills.

The quality of each crop directly determines the seed quality that you get.

Step 3: Replant the processed seeds to grow them into crops, and keep fertilizing to reach ★5 quality.

And once you unlock Bazaar Rank 3 and Garon’s Construction, you can purchase Soil Quality Upgrades (starting at 50,000 G) to instantly boost the quality of any crops planted in your field even further.

Rare Crops

Occasionally, your crops will grow into rare variants like giants and golden crops.

The higher you can raise your planted crop’s quality, the higher your chance is of getting a rare crop when it matures.

You can boost crop quality by fertilizing once and watering twice daily, and you can further increase your odds of getting rare crops with these tips:

Tip #1: Plant high-quality seeds. Just process your high-quality crops at the Windmills to produce high-quality seeds that you can then re-plant.

Tip #2: Eat foods that grant the Watering Rare Crop % effect (such as Mashed Potatoes and Caprese Salad) before watering your crops. You can see a full list on this page.

Tip #3: Visit Kagetsu for a random blessing, as one possible blessing effect grants Watering Rare Crop %.

Tip #4: Keep applying fertilizer to your crops that are already at max quality. Because any excess quality gets converts into a higher bonus rare crop chance.

Tip #5: Level up your Forageables Sprite Level with Ivy to get higher-quality weeds. This lets you process high quality fertilizers at your Windmills.

Fruit Trees

Fruit trees are permanent crops that grow from trees in your field.

These trees take 14 days to grow, but they will produce fruit year after year.

More specifically, your trees:

1. Never wilt
2. Don’t need watering
3. And during storms your trees won’t be uprooted—though unprotected trees may lose fruit if in season.

Tree Growth Stages

Stage	Seedling	Sprout	Sapling	Juvenile	Mature – Bud	Mature – Flower	Mature – Small Fruit	Mature – Harvest
Day	1	3	5	7	9	10	12	14
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After you harvest fruit from a tree it will reset to the “Mature – Bud” stage. Then it cycles through the 5-day fruiting period repeatedly, as long as the fruit is in season.

When out of season, a tree will stay in the Mature stage without bearing fruit.

Fertilizing Fruit Trees

Fertilizing a fruit tree at different stages has effects that differ from regular crops.

To increase a fruit tree’s quality beyond the Mature stage, you’ll need to process harvested fruit at the Yellow Windmill to get a new seedling, then replant and fertilize it once more.

Protecting Your Crops

Hurricanes (in Summer) and blizzards (in Winter) can devastate any unprotected field.

During a big storm, unprotected fields may lose around 70% of your total planted crops.

On the day before a hurricane or blizzard, a radio cutscene will warn you about the incoming storm. You can treat this as a signal to set up your Windscreens the day before the storm arrives.

After the storm hits, the Windscreens will be destroyed, but your crops will remain safe. Don’t forget to craft new Windscreens at the Red Windmill afterward.

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