When it comes to your crop planning, knowing where to start isn’t always easy, and there’s a lot you may need to keep in mind to help with this. However, if you have been struggling to decide on the right strategy for your own crop growing in the Stardew Valley summer, today’s guide might just help.
What Stardew Valley Summer Crops are Available?
When it comes to variety, Summer offers an excellent opportunity for crop growing in Stardew Valley. Indeed, with the arrival of hot weather and summer storms comes a great selection of new crops to grow, and considering the different options could help you find the right solutions for your needs. Indeed, the main crops that grow in the summer are as follows:
- Blueberries
- Hops
- Corn
- Hot peppers
- Melons
- Radishes
- Red cabbage
- Starfruits
- Summer Spangle
- Poppies
- Summer squash
- Sunflowers
- Tomatoes
- Wheat
The exact growing requirements for each crop will differ slightly, so keeping this in mind could help you understand more about these unique crops.
What are Stardew Valley’s Best Summer Crops to Grow?
Working out which crops are the best options for summer isn’t always easy as there are so many different options available, and keeping this in mind could help. However, the most valuable summer crops are starfruit seeds, which provide a daily yield of almost 27g per day at minimum; however, these are only available in the desert Oasis, which most people won’t unlock until at least their second summer.
In line with this thought, if you don’t yet have access to the Oasis, the next best crop to grow are blueberries. Since blueberry plants produce three blueberries per harvest and regrow multiple times during the season, they provide an excellent money-making option. What’s more, they don’t grow on a trellis, so you won’t have to worry about practicalities of walking through them. The annual profit of blueberries is around 20g per day.
If you’ve reached your second summer, Red Cabbage seeds are also a valuable option to grow. These aren’t quite as valuable as blueberries, but they still provide over 17g per day; if you get lucky, you might also be able to find them in the Traveling Cart, although the seeds will be more expensive here. As another option, if you enabled “guaranteed year 1 completable” during the setup of your game, you can get them guaranteed from the traveling cart during year 1.
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Is Growing Multi-Season Crops Worth It in Stardew Valley?
There are several multi-season crops that you can grow in the summer in Stardew Valley, and it’s not always immediately clear whether this is worth it. Namely, the main options here are corn and wheat.
Whether or not to grow these crops is a little tricky to decide, since it depends on a couple of factors. In terms of profitability alone, it’s probably not worth growing corn or wheat, given that they are much lower in value than other crops. However, from an ease perspective, corn offers a great multi-season crop as it continues to regrow, meaning you won’t have to re-sow it all the time.
Meanwhile, in the case of Stardew Valley wheat, there’s a 40% chance that you will also receive hay when harvesting. As such, in Stardew Valley, this makes wheat a great crop to grow in order to save money on your winter livestock feed if you are unlikely to get enough hay from your grass fields.
Where Can I Get Seeds for Stardew Valley Summer Crops
There are several ways to obtain summer seeds for your Stardew Valley crops. Most seeds are available from Pierre’s General Store or JojaMart, and Starfruit seeds are available from the desert Oasis. In addition, Summer Squash seeds are available as certain world drops and for completing raccoon quests. Finally, you can also craft seeds if you have access to a seed maker.
FAQs
Starfruit seeds in Stardew Valley are available in the summer only, and these can be purchased from the desert Oasis store for 400g. They are also occasionally available for 600-1000g from the traveling cart. Alternatively, you can receive a single packet of seeds from Gunther after you donate fifteen items, or obtain these from Skull Cavern treasure rooms.
Red cabbage is not necessarily available in your first year of Stardew Valley unless you have enabled the “Year 1 completable” option when setting up the game. As such, if you can’t find red cabbage in Stardew Valley, you’ll have to wait until the next year (or keep checking the traveling cart in the interim).
Final Thoughts
There are many different Stardew Valley Summer crops, and knowing which to—and not to—grow can sometimes seem a little difficult. However, this shouldn’t have to be a major challenge, and luckily, there are plenty of excellent Stardew Valley summer crops you could consider growing. Hopefully, today’s guide will have helped simplify this decision somewhat, so knowing where to start should be easier.