Like real life, spring is a great time for farming in Stardew Valley. The dependable rain showers will save you a ton of time watering crops, and the wide variety of events and crop types make the season of growth a fun time all around. You could make sure the garden is full and make a nice change, but optimizing your work will always be the ultimate goal of the true epic farming experience. To that end, we cover Stardew Valley’s best spring crops.
Each section will cover a different crop and what it might be best used for. These include profit, gifts, buffs, and more!
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Best Spring Crops For Profit
By the numbers, Stardew Valley’s best spring crop for profit is the strawberry. This is based on how much a single strawberry is worth at the different star levels, how long it takes the crop to mature, and the yields of each plant, since some continue to produce after maturity. The strawberry is an example of one such fruit. It takes longer to produce than other plants (8 days), but since a single strawberry is worth 120g with no stars, the time difference evens out.
You can pick up strawberry seeds from the Spring Egg Festival for 100g. They take eight days to mature into their harvestable form and then another four days to regrow. Because of this, you can expect recurring profits from your strawberry seeds! Quite a lucrative investment.
And unlike kale, for instance–which is worth only 10g less and produces two days faster but will disappear once it’s harvested–the strawberry plant continues to produce throughout spring. It even has a chance to produce bonus strawberries.
If you have a desert farm, rhubarb will be your best bet. It gives lots of profit and is a very simple crop to take care of. You can buy rhubarb seeds from the Oasis.
Best spring crops for buffs and recipes
In terms of a raw ingredient that provides the most useful buffs with no extra preparation, the cauliflower is Stardew Valley’s best spring crop. Cauliflowers provide 75 energy and 33 health when eaten raw; kale, the second-best, provides 50 and 22, respectively.
The best recipes depend on which buff you find most valuable. Rice is a versatile base ingredient for three of the game’s best dishes, including Mango Sticky Rice, which gives 113 energy and 50 health, as well as a +3 defense boost for 5 minutes. Rhubarb is also a good choice for both buffs and profits, since rhubarb pie grants 216 energy, 96 health, and sells for 400g.
Cauliflower is also good to grow right before you get access to strawberries (the truly best spring crop). Once the Cauliflower is ready for harvest, you can start planting strawberries.
Best spring crops for gifts
The coffee bean is likely Stardew Valley’s best spring crop in terms of gift-giving. Assuming you have bought the keg from the Stardrop Saloon for 300g, you can turn it into coffee. Coffee is an almost universally-liked gift among the town’s teens and adults, and it is a loved gift for Harvey, who runs the clinic. Logically, only the town’s children, Leo, Jas, and Vincent, are either neutral or displeased by it.
Also, like strawberries, coffee beans can be regrown and have a chance of giving extra beans!
For those with the Tiller profession, you won’t be able to get any bonuses to its price when you sell it. So Tillers can’t eek out more profit with coffee beans.
That said, depending on the quality, you could sell coffee beans for 15-30g each. Or, the much smarter option, you could turn it into coffee and sell it for 150g.
But, you’ll more likely be using coffee for gifts.
Conclusion
That’s the best use of each spring crop! Hopefully, this article helps you. Good luck on your farms!
