The opening sequence
Plant your 15 free parsnips on day 1, then buy potatoes as gold allows — potatoes cost 50g, grow in 6 days and have a ~25% chance of a bonus tuber, pushing their average yield above parsnips. Cauliflower (80g seed, 175g sell, 12 days) is the season’s big single-harvest paycheck but skips two full plant cycles.
Strawberry day 13 is the pivot
The Egg Festival on Spring 13 sells strawberry seeds (100g) — the best spring crop by gold per day if planted immediately, because they regrow every 4 days. Every plant bought on day 13 gets roughly four harvests before summer; the same seeds bought on day 20 get two. This is why veterans spend the whole first two weeks scraping together festival money, including selling early fish.
<h2>Forgotten spring money</h2><p>Rhubarb from the Oasis (100g seed, 13 days, 220g sell) rivals strawberries for players with bus access, and green beans (regrowing trellis crop) fit fence lines. Keep one small plot of kale or cauliflower for the Community Center bundle — the spring crops bundle needs three different crops including a green bean.</p>
