Cranberries are the fall blueberry
240g seeds look expensive until you do the math: 7 days to mature, regrows every 5 days, yields two berries at 75g each. Over the season one plant returns several multiples of its seed cost. Plant day 1; late plantings miss regrowth cycles that never come back.
Pumpkins are the single-harvest king
100g seed, 13 days, 320g base — and pumpkins are gift-loved by many villagers plus required for the Quality Crops bundle. A pumpkin also has a chance to spawn as a giant crop. A balanced fall field is bulk cranberries with a pumpkin block for bundles, gifting and gold.
The ancient fruit clock starts now
If any ancient fruit seeds came out of your Seed Maker over summer, plant them in fall even though the first harvest barely lands — an ancient plant that survives winter in the greenhouse or on Ginger Island pays 550g every 7 days permanently. Year two players switch the whole fall plan to full ancient fruit.
