You can harvest crops and plants in Stardew Valley for food, crafts, gifts, festivals, quests, and many other purposes. There is usually a specific season in which each crop can be grown. You can plant crops in their designated seasons, and they will weaken and die as the seasons change after the 28th day of the season. We’ve included multi-season crops in each season they’re grown, as well as specialty crops that don’t really have a designated season but bloom year-round.
Some crops may regrow faster than they did when you first planted them. You can tell a plant is growing back when it looks like a seed that was planted after harvest. When watered immediately after harvest, these crops regrow on their own. Crops have a limited number of regrowth, so you need to plant a new seed when they are finished. When a regrowing crop is finished, it looks like an empty patch of land.
Below are the basic metrics for each crop, such as how much you can sell it for, where you can find it, how long it takes to grow it, and what you can do with it. It’s important to remember that we’re only indicating who will love each culture as a gift, not whether they’ll only love them because loving a culture is rare. How well each crop is irrigated will determine how fast it grows and how much you can sell it for.
The best harvests for each season in Stardew Valley
Best Spring Crops in Stardew Valley
You’ll miss many of the plants featured below for the first time since every game begins in the spring. Keep an eye out for the end of each season and save your seeds if the plant dries out before it can fully sprout because the seeds never expire.
One festival you should watch out for is the Egg Festival on the 13th of Spring, where Peter sells strawberry seeds for 100 gold each. If you don’t save the seeds from the previous year and only plant them after buying them from Pierre, you can plant and harvest strawberry seeds twice before the start of summer. Because you only have a short time to plant after the festival, we recommend saving the seeds for next year.
| Crop | Gold (normal selling price) | How long to grow | Uses | Where to find |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strawberries | 120 | 8 days repels: 4 days |
Gift for Maru and Demetrius | Bought at the Egg Festival |
| Coffee bean | 15 | 10 days repels: 2 days |
Coffee | Bought at the Traveling Cart |
| Rhubarb | 220 | 13 days | rhubarb pie | Purchased from Oasis |
| kale | 110 | 6 days | Salmon dinner and stir-fry | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| Potato | 80 | 6 days | Lot of hash browns and spring crops | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| Garlic | 60 | 4 days | Garlic oil, fiddlehead and snail risotto | Bought at Pierre’s shop |
| Cauliflower | 175 | 12 days | Cauliflower with cheese, spring harvest bundle and maru (gift) | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| green bean | 40 | 10 days repels: 3 days |
Set of bean hotpot and spring crops | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| Parsnip | 35 | 4 days | Farmer’s Lunch, Parsnip Soup, Spring Crop Bundle, Quality Crop Bundle, and Pam (gift) | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| blue jazz | 50 | 7 days | lucky lunch | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| Unmilled rice | 30 | 8 days | Rice | Bought at Pierre’s shop |
| Tulip | 30 | 6 days | Evelyn (gift) | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
Best summer harvests in Stardew Valley
If you’ve just started playing, summer should be the time when you’ve mastered the game and have already harvested the seeds you can grow here from foraging. If you need seeds, visit Pierre’s Shop or JojaMart.
There is one festival you should watch out for, the 11th Summer Luau, where you must have an ingredient ready. Since you haven’t planted anything of high quality yet, you won’t get a good response from the Governor the first time around. The Starfruit is also available from Pierre here for 1,000 gold, but you should only buy it if you really need it.
| Crop | Gold (normal selling price) | How long to grow | Uses | Where to find |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| carambola | 750 | 13 days | Junimo cabin | Purchased from Oasis |
| Red cabbage | 260 | 9 days | Coleslaw, fish tacos, red plate and dye lot | Bought at Pierre’s shop |
| Blueberry | 50 | 13 days repels: 4 days |
Set of blueberry pie, fruit salad and summer crops | Bought at Pierre’s shop |
| Coffee bean | 15 | 10 days repels: 2 days |
Coffee | Bought at the Traveling Cart |
| Melon | 250 | 12 days | Fruit Salad, Pink Cake, Summer Crop Bundle, Premium Crop Bundle, and Penny (Gift) | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| Hop | 25 | 11 days repels: One day |
White beer | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| Poppy | 140 | 7 days | Poppy seed muffin, chef’s batch and Penny (gift) | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| Radish | 90 | 6 days | Radish Salad and Red Platter | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| Pepper | 40 | 5 days repels: 3 days |
Pepper Poppers, Spicy Eel, Tropical Curry, Summer Crops Bundle, Lewis (gift) and Shane (gift) | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| Tomato | 60 | 11 days repels: 4 days |
Bruschetta, eggplant parmesan, fish stew, pizza, spaghetti, mixed vegetables and summer crop set | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| summer sequin | 90 | 8 days | gift for carolina | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| Sunflower | 80 | 8 days | Oil, dye lot and Haley (gift) | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| Corn | 50 | 14 days repels: 4 days |
Tortilla, oil, fall crop batch, premium crop batch | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| Wheat | 25 | 4 days | Beer, wheat flour, fodder | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
Best fall/fall crops in Stardew Valley
During the fall, you can plant as much as possible because you can’t grow anything in the winter. You can grow crops that everyone loves during the winter, as some festivals involve gifts.
Attending all Fall Festivals is essential to get the two rare Scarecrows that can help you grow your crops. You can wait until next year if they’re too expensive, but you should save up to get the rare Scarecrows. The Stardew Valley Fair also offers mixed seeds for sale from Stone.
| Crop | Gold (normal selling price) | How long to grow | Uses | Where to find |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweet gem berry | 3,000 | 24 days | Offered to Old Master Cannoli for a Stardrop | Purchased from the Traveling Cart |
| Pumpkin | 320 | 13 days | Autumn’s Bounty, Pumpkin Pie, Pumpkin Soup, Jack-O-Lantern, Fall Crops Bundle, Quality Crops Bundle, Abigail (gift), Krobus (gift), and Willy (gift) | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| pink fairy | 290 | 12 days | Fairy Dust, Evelyn (gift) and Jas (gift) | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| Grape seed | 80 | 10 days repels: 3 days |
Summer Seeds, Summer Foraging Bundle and Vincent (gift) | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| Yam | 160 | 10 days | Fall Bounty, Glazed Yams, Fall Harvest Bundle, and Linus (gift) | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| Eggplant | 60 | 5 days repels: 5 days |
Eggplant Parmesan, Survival Burger, Fall Crop Bundle | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| Sunflower | 80 | 8 days | Oil, dye lot and Haley (gift) | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| Amaranth | 150 | 7 days | Salmon dinner | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| Artichoke | 160 | 8 days | Artichoke dip and great meal | Bought at Pierre’s shop |
| Beet | 100 | 6 days | Mix of vegetables, sugar and Evelyn (gift) | Purchased from Oasis |
| bok choy | 80 | 4 days | Great Meal | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| Cranberries | 75 | 7 days repels: 5 days |
Cranberry candy, cranberry sauce, stuffing, great meal | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| Poppy | 140 | 7 days | Poppy seed muffin, chef’s batch and Penny (gift) | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| Corn | 50 | 14 days repels: 4 days |
Tortialla, Oil, Fall Crop Bundle, Quality Crop Bundle | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
| Wheat | 25 | 4 days | Beer, wheat flour, fodder | Bought at Pierre’s/JojaMart |
Best winter crops in Stardew Valley
This season, you can only grow winter seeds, which grow bushes that you can feed from. At the end of the season, these bushes will wither and die. Winter should be used for mining or fishing. Fishing is recommended since the Ice Festival and the Night Market revolve around fishing, and it helps to have a high level. The only thing you can get from Winter Festivals for your crops is the rare Ice Festival Scarecrow.
| Crop | Gold (normal selling price) | How long to grow | Uses | Where to find |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| winter seeds | Changes depending on what is grown (random) | 7 days | Yields Winter Forage Fruit | Purchased from the Traveling Cart |
Special crops in Stardew Valley
There really isn’t a special crop season. These can be grown all year round (except winter) and will most likely thrive. In addition to prizes, gifts or other special occasions, these are also generally useful for earning money, but very few can be profitable.
| Crop | Gold (normal selling price) | How long to grow | Uses | Where to find |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ancient fruit | 550 | 28 days repels: 7 days |
The Missing Batch and the Rare Culture Batch | Purchased from the Traveling Cart |
| cactus fruit | 75 | 12 days repels: 3 days |
Exotic foraging set, Linus (gift), Pam (gift) and Sam (gift) | Purchased from Oasis |
| Fiber | 1 | 7 days | Craft different items | A weed that grows randomly |
| Mixed seeds | Depends on what grows (random) | Depends on what grows (random) | fiber seeds | Found randomly while exploring |
| Pineapple | 300 | 14 days repels: 7 days |
tropical curry | Purchased from Island Trader |
| taro root | 100 | 10 days | poi | Purchased from Island Trader |
| tea leaves | 50 | 20 days repels: One day |
Green tea | Randomly found |
| wild seeds | Depends on what grows (random) | Depends on what grows (random) | Depends on what grows (random) | Made from fodder plants |
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