Crops (LoH)

In Harvest Moon: Light of Hope, you can grow crops on both your plot of farmland as well as other areas outside of your farm. Crops can be grown all year long, and the same crop seeds can be planted every season: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. This means that any crop can be planted all year long without it dying. It's health will most likely end up "poor", meaning the plant is weak and might not survive another day. With that being said, crops will therefore grow better in specific seasons.

Depending on multiple factors, crops may mutate to become another crop. For more info, refer to the Crop Mutations page.

When you first start on your farm, Jeanne will give you a watering can, hoe, and cabbage seeds to help you getting started as a farmer. She will also show you how to do simple farm tasks such as tilling the soil, planting seeds and watering the plants so they can grow and turn into crops that you can harvest. Plants do not need watering on rainy or snowy days, which means on these days you have the time and stamina to do other things (such as fishing or going to the mine).

Crops

Image	Name	Cost	Season	Terrain	Days	(Sam) Normal Quality	(Sam) Great Quality	(Bastian) Normal Quality	(Bastian) Great Quality
	Cabbage	20 G	Spring / Fall / Winter	All	3 Days	40 G		60 G
	Red Cabbage	20 G	Spring / Fall / Winter	All	3 Days	60 G		90 G
	Huge Cabbage	110 G	Spring / Fall	All	8 Days	260 G
	Green Cabbage	120 G	Spring / Summer	Swampy	6 Days	250 G	380 G
	Dome Cabbage	260 G	Spring / Winter	Grassy	8 Days	590 G	890 G
	Celery	20 G	Spring / Fall	All	6 Days	70 G	110 G	105 G	165 G
	White Celery	40 G	Spring / Fall	All	6 Days	80 G	120 G
	Mystic Herb	80 G	Spring / Summer	Grassy	8 Days	180 G	270 G
	Royal Herb	260 G	Fall / Winter	Mixed	8 Days	580 G	870 G
	Onion	30 G	Spring / Summer	Mixed	6 Days	70 G	110 G	105 G
	Scallion	40 G	Spring / Summer	All	6 Days	80 G	120 G	120 G
	Petite Onion	90 G	Spring	Dry	4 Days	190 G	290 G
	Red Onion	180 G	Spring / Summer	All	8Days	390 G
	Pearl Onion	180 G	Fall / winter	Grassy	8 Days	390 G	560 G
	Strawberry	20 G	Spring / Fall	All	8 Days (Regrows)	40 G	60 G	60 G	90 G
	Tomato	30 G	Summer / Fall	All	6 Days	70 G		105 G
	San Marzano	50 G	Summer / Fall	Dry	6 Days	110 G
	Corn	20 G	Summer / Fall	All	6 Days (Regrows)	40 G	60 G	60 G
	Fodder Corn	20 G	Summer / Winter	All	6 Days (Regrows)	40 G	60 G	60 G
	Sweet Corn	30 G	Spring / Summer	All	8 Days (Regrows)	60 G	90 G	90 G
	Green Pepper	20 G	Spring / Summer	All	8 Days (Regrows)	40 G	60 G	60 G	90 G
	Orange Pepper	40 G	Summer	Grassy	8 Days (Regrows)	80 G	120 G	90 G	180
	Wheat	20 G	Spring / Summer / Fall	Grassy	4 Days	40 G	60 G	60 G	90 G
	Durum Wheat	20 G	Spring / Summer / Fall	Mixed	4 Days	40 G		60 G
	Hot Pepper	20 G	Summer / Fall	All	6 Days (Regrows)	40 G	60 G	60 G	90 G
	Habanero	20 G	Fall	Mixed	6 Days (Regrows)	40 G	60 G	60 G	90 G
	Potato	20 G	Summer / Fall	All	4 Days	40 G		60 G
	Giant Potato		Fall	All	4 Days
	Carrot	20 G	Spring / Fall / Winter	All	4 Days	40 G
	Baby Carrot	30 G	Spring / Fall / Winter	Grassy	3 Days
	Brown Carrot	40 G	Summer / Fall	Swampy	5 Days	80 G
	Pumpkin	20 G	Spring / Fall	All	9 Days (Regrows)	40 G	60 G		90 G
	Zucchini		Summer	Swampy		60 G
	Squash	40 G	Spring / Summer	Grassy	10 Days (Regrows)	80 G	120 G
	Spinach	20 G	Spring / Fall / Winter	All	4 Days	40 G		60 G
	Savoy Spinach	40 G	Spring / Winter	Grassy	5 Days
	Broccoli	20 G	Summer / Fall / Winter	All	6 Days	40 G
	Broccolini	30 G	All	Grassy	5 Days
	Blueberry	30 G	Summer / Fall	Mixed	12 Days (Regrows)
	Watermelon	50 G	Summer / Fall	Mixed	8 Days
	Asparagus	30 G	Summer / Fall	Grassy	12 Days (Regrows)

Trees

Image	Name	Cost	Season	Terrain	Days	Sell Price
	Grapefruit	2,000 G	Spring	All	28 Days	100 G
	Peach	3,000 G	Summer	All	28 Days	200 G
	Apple	3,000 G	Fall	All	28 Days	150 G
	Orange	3,000 G	Winter	All	28 Days	300 G

Flowers

Note: The sell prices are for Carol only. If you ship flowers or sell them to Sam they will be worth less.

Image	Name	Cost	Season	Terrain	Days	Normal Quality	Great Quality
	Marguerite	20 G	Spring	All	4 Days	75 G	120 G
	Tulip	30 G	Spring	All	6 Days	105 G	165 G
	White Tulip	40 G	Spring	All	6 Days	135 G	210 G
	Yellow Tulip	40 G	Spring	All	6 Days	135 G	210 G
	Pink Rose	80 G	Spring	All	12 Days	420 G	630 G
	Sunflower	20 G	Summer	All	6 Days	75 G	120 G
	Pink Dahlia	50 G	Summer	All	8 Days	225 G	345 G
	White Dahlia	110 G	Summer	All	8 Days	435 G	660 G
	Yellow Dahlia	110 G	Summer	All	8 Days	435 G	660 G
	Red Rose	80 G	Summer	All	12 Days	420 G	630 G
	Cosmos	30 G	Fall	All	6 Days	105 G	165 G
	Sunny Red	40 G	Fall	All	6 Days	135 G	210 G
	Carnation	40 G	Spring, Fall	All	8 Days	165 G
	Pink Carnation		Fall	All	8 Days	435 G	660 G
	White Rose	80 G	Fall	All	12 Days	420 G	630 G
	Pink Pansy	30 G	Winter	All	8 Days	105 G	165 G
	Yellow Pansy	60 G	Winter	All	6 Days	210 G	315 G
	Purple Pansy	60 G	Winter	All	6 Days	210 G	315 G
	Viola	80 G	Winter	All	6 Days	270 G	405 G
	Blue Rose	80 G	Winter	All	12 Days	420 G	630 G

Terrain Types

There are four types of terrain you can plant crops in. Different terrain are in different areas of Beacon Island. A terrain will not change from one type to another.

1. Grassy: This soil can be found everywhere on your farm on both sides of the bridges.
2. Mixed: A combination of dry and grassy soil found in the mountain area just north of your farm. It is also on the cliff area above Sofia's Livestock shop.
3. Dry: At the top of the mountain above the Goddess' Spring, by Edmond's house.
4. Swamp: Found in the southwest corner of the island. You'll need to repair some bridges after you complete the main storyline to reach these areas.

Picking the terrain to grow your crops in won't affect growth rate, but it can affect the chance of triggering a crop mutation. These new types of crops grow from basic seeds and can be used for cooking recipes, making fertilizer, completing villager requests, or selling for more profit (though in general, mining is more profitable than farming).

Terrain will not change from one type to another based on environmental factors; rainy days will not turn grassy terrain into swampy terrain.

To plant a seed, simply use your hoe on the terrain of choice, then press the action button to till the terrain. If you have upgraded your hoe at Gus' blacksmith shop, hold down the action button to power up and extend the range of terrain you're impacting. Then simply move your cursor over to the freshly-tilled area and press the action button again to select the seed you want to plant. Again, you can hold down the action button to spread the seeds in a 3x3 range.

Seeds

New seeds will be for sale as you proceed through the game. Sam sells crop seeds and Carol sells flower seeds.

• Sam's shop is open Monday through Saturday from 6am to 8pm. Sam's location will change depending on the day of the week, so check your in-game map to see if he's either in Beacon Town, on your farm, or in the Mountain area.
• Carol's shop is also open Monday through Saturday, but she stays in Beacon Town and doesn't move around like Sam does. Her hours are from 10am to 8pm.

The basic level of seeds unlock naturally as you restore the lighthouse, while the hybrid seeds unlock as you sell a certain number of harvests (10, 20, or 30). Selling crops to unlock their seeds can be done either by shipping the crops in your shipping bin or selling them directly to Sam (crops) or Carol (flowers). You can also sell your crops to Bastian, who will buy your grown crops for more than what you can earn from selling directly to Sam or placing in your shipping bin.

When going to buy seeds from Sam or Carol, the seed review screen will tell you the preferred season the crop grows in, the type of terrain it likes, how many days it will take for the crop to mature, and if the crop can be harvested more than once. A bag of seeds will plant one crop in your tilled soil. If you want to plant 9 crops, you've to buy 9 bags of seeds.

Plant Health

Technically, the plants will grow without daily watering, but NOT watering your plants will negatively affect the plants "health". You can get a general idea of how healthy you plants are by standing next to the plant. A thought-bubble will appear, with a background color basted on the crop's health level.

The higher the crop's health, the better the chance of it surviving bad weather storms and possibly mutating into a new type of crop if grown on the right terrain and in the right season. Poor health crops have a greater chance of wilting the next morning. If your crop's health is poor, you can spruce it up by applying fertilizer . You can add fertilizer once per day after you water the plants. Fertilizer can be purchased from Carol's flower shop or manufactured at the Fertilizer Bin on your farm. There are two other Fertilizer Bins on the island, which are both connected to the main one on your farm from storage purposes.

Plants that are healthy can also live through the season change.