Best Spring Crops in Stardew Valley

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Tulips may not be profitable, but they make nice gifts and increase your friendship level with townspeople.
Blue Jazz Flower is a bit more expensive, but it has a higher yield, making it a good investment.
Coffee beans are expensive, but they bring great benefits, speed up your work, and make great gifts.

Spring is the start of a new year and a new beginning. Stardew ValleyIt is time to refresh and start anew, and to plan the productivity of the year. Players must dedicate farm space to crops and harvest them to generate the most income.

There are 10 exclusive spring crops to choose from, each with different values and growing times. Each crop on this list has its own unique growing time and selling point. These are the best crops to plant and harvest in the spring. Stardew Valley.

Updated by Matthew Weideman on September 21, 2024: Stardew Valley continues to entertain players eight years after its initial release in 2016. Update 1.6, now out on PC and coming soon to consoles, has inspired many players to return to the farm and explore all the new content available. Additional information has been added to the article to make it a little easier for readers to find the information.

14 tulip

Pretty flowers that make great gifts

Seed Price: 20g
Perfect for building friendships with townspeople
Growing time: 6 days
Tulips are not used in any cooking.

Although not the most profitable option, tulips make a beautiful addition to any farm. The price Tulip seeds and Jazz Seed When purchased at Pierre's, it costs 20g. After harvesting, these flowers sell for 30-66g each, so it's not worth investing time and farm space. However, tulip honey can be very profitable for players with the Artisan perk, as the price increases to 224g.

The best part about growing tulips is that they make perfect gifts and are great for increasing your friendship level with certain townspeople. Evelyn loves tulips, but most other townspeople love them.

13 Blue Jazz

An almost universal gift

Seed Price: 30g
Perfect for building friendships with townspeople
Growing time: 7 days
Best Recipe: Lucky Lunch

Blue Jazz The seeds are slightly more expensive than tulip seeds, but the flowers are ultimately more valuable. They sell for 50-110g depending on the player's perks, making these flowers a slightly better investment than tulips. They are also more expensive. honeyAdditionally, it helps players get good returns on their investments.

As with other flowers in the game, the best way to use this flower is to make friends. While most townspeople like Blue Jazz, Clint, Georgeand Sebastian I hate it. This almost universal gift will help players who want to make friends quickly.

12 carrot

Classic Farm Vegetables

Seed Price: Not available for purchase
Perfect for feeding horses
Growing time: 3 days
Carrots are not used in any dishes.

carrots First introduced in Update 1.6, which came a full eight years after the original game, this update added new crops, new events, new tools, and even new characters. Carrot seeds can be obtained by trading Maple Seeds with one of these new characters. They can also be dug up, looted from certain enemies, and found in a variety of other ways.

This classic vegetable is not very profitable, selling for 35-70g. However, when fed to a horse, it gives the horse a speed bonus, making it easier to move around the valley. It can also be given as a gift, as only a few villagers dislike it.

11 garlic

quick money

Seed Price: 40g
Perfect for cooking and making garlic oil.
Growing time: 4 days
Best Recipe: Escargot

Garlic seeds You can buy it for 40 gold and sell it for at least 60 gold, or 120 gold for the best quality. This crop only takes 4 days to grow, mature, and be ready for harvest, making it a quick way to make money.

Garlic is also a staple in many recipes and can be used to make garlic oil, which players can consume as a buff to ward off insects and other threats while mining.

10 Parsnip

A cheap and fast way to make money

Seed Price: 20g
Perfect for cooking recipes
Growing time: 4 days
Best Recipe: Farmer's Lunch

no way Stardew Valley Essentials. Parsnips are cheap and easy to maintain, as they only take 4 days to grow. Players are guaranteed at least 10 gold in net profit from them, so it is worth allocating some land to this essential crop.

They're also essential for cooking recipes like Farmer's Lunch or Parsnip Soup, or for packing up at the community center.

9 coffee beans

Brew some coffee to drink or share.

Seed price: 100-1,000g
Great for making friends or getting some speed.
Growing time: 10 days; Regrowth time: 2 days
Best Recipe: Coffee

coffee beansIt is expensive, but it is a great investment for several reasons. After the initial 10-day growth period, coffee trees can be harvested every two days in both spring and summer. Each time, the player is given 4 coffee beans, so the player can have a huge stock of coffee beans very quickly.

To brew coffee, you need 5 coffee beans in the barrel, which will increase the player's speed when drinking coffee. Having enough coffee on hand is a good way to make the early game more efficient before the player can afford to buy a horse. Most villagers also like this, so you can give them extra coffee as a gift.

8 Unmilled rice

One of the most profitable crops

Seed Price: 40g
Perfect for generating significant profits
Growing time: 8 days; 6 days with irrigation
Best Recipe: Rice

In the second year of farming, players will discover a versatile and rewarding crop. Unmilled rice. This unique crop requires a sickle to harvest, and ideally a mill to process it into convenient bags of rice. Rice sprouts, available for 40g at Pierre's General Store, provide the basis for growing this profitable grain.

Selling rice directly can yield a significant profit of 100g, but if you choose to sell the unmilled rice itself, you can earn up to 66g. This crop takes 8 days to grow.

7 Kale

Level up farm skills

Seed Price: 70g
Suitable for generating significant income and improving agricultural skills.
Growing time: 6 days
Best Recipe: Stir-fry

Sold at a reasonable price of 70g at Pierre's General Store, this leafy green has incredible profit potential. When of the highest quality, a single harvest Kale It can fetch a significant amount of money, up to 242g, making it a lucrative choice for those looking for significant profits.

In addition to the monetary rewards, Kale has proven to be a great tool for leveling up a player’s farming skills, offering a generous 17xp reward each time it is harvested. This crop takes 6 days to mature, making it a worthy investment for aspiring farmers.

6 Green beans

Great investment option

Seed Price: 60g
Suitable for multiple crops
Growing time: 10 days; Regrowth time: 3 days
Best Recipe: Bean Pot

Players can buy mung bean seeds for 60 gold, which is quite expensive, but one seed can produce a crop that can be harvested multiple times. The crop can then be sold for 40 to 80 gold.

After an initial growth rate of 10 days, the crop will regrow more beans every 3 days. This is a crop that is completely worth investing in.

5 potato

An essential crop

Seed Price: 50g
Perfect for the player's diet
Growing time: 6 days
Best Recipe: Hash Browns

Potatoes are a root vegetable, an essential staple in both the athlete's diet and the farm. They are sold at Pierre's for 50g.

After harvest, if they are of the highest quality, they can be sold for 80g or even double that. Potatoes take 6 days to mature, making them a steady source of income.

4 rhubarb

Expensive option

Seed Price: 100g
Suitable for making significant profits
Growing time: 13 days
Best Recipe: Rhubarb Pie

Rhubarb seeds It can be purchased for 100 gold at Sandy's Oasis Store in Calico Desert. Calico Desert can be accessed by repairing buses, completing Community Center Vault bundles, or through the Joja Community Development form.

It's quite expensive, but it's worth it as it's a high quality crop that can be sold for 220-440 gold. Rhubarb takes 13 days to mature, so stock up and plant it.

3 Cauliflower

It takes time, but it's worth the wait.

Seed Price: 80g
Suitable for making significant profits
Growing time: 12 days
Best Recipe: Cheesy Cauliflower

Cauliflower seeds It costs 80 gold to purchase from Pierre. This heavy vegetable has the longest growing period of 12 days, so it can only be planted twice in spring.

However, they each reward you with 175 gold in profit, which means a minimum of 95 gold in common quality. In the highest Iridium quality, they are worth 350 gold. All crops are worth 10% more, so having the cultivator profession will help.

2 Ancient Fruit

Get ready to get rich

Seed Price: Obtained through a recipe provided by Gunther
Perfect for huge profits
Growing time: 28 days
The ancient fruit is not used in any recipes.

This strange fruit isn't just for spring. It can be grown in spring, summer, and fall, and harvested every season until winter. The selling price of this rare fruit ranges from 550 gold to a whopping 1,100 gold. Spring is the perfect time to plant extra Ancient Seeds and reap the rewards.

Ancient Seeds However, they are very rare to obtain. The typical way is to donate the first Ancient Seed artifact you find to Gunther in the museum. Gunther will provide the player with the recipe for turning the artifact into a seed and a pack of Ancient Seeds through Kickstarter.

Ancient Seeds are sometimes sold in the Travel Cart.

1 strawberry