🔓 How to Unlock Gardening
Gardening is one of your first hobbies, automatically unlocked during the tutorial:
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Meet Blanc
Progress through the early tutorial until you encounter Blanc, the gardening mentor.
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Receive Starter Kit
Blanc gives you a watering can, starter seeds, and initial plant boxes.
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Start Farming!
Place plant boxes, plant seeds, water daily, and harvest when ready!
📍 Finding Blanc
Blanc's location changes throughout the day. Open your map (M) and look for his icon. He's usually at the Garden Shop (8AM-6PM) or at home (early morning/evening).
🌻 Gardening Basics
How to Grow Crops
- 1. Buy seeds from Blanc at the Garden Shop
- 2. Place a plant box on your lot (8 available at start)
- 3. Plant the seed in the plant box
- 4. Water regularly — every missed watering delays growth!
- 5. Harvest when fully grown, then replant
🌾 Regular Crops
Planted in plant boxes. Most vegetables and fruits go here.
🌸 Flowers
Unlocked at Level 3. Must be planted directly in soil, not in plant boxes.
🥕 All Crops List
Here's every crop in Heartopia with growth times, seed costs, and unlock levels:
| Crop | Growth Time | Seed Price | Unlock Level |
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| 🍅 Tomato | 15 min | 10 Gold | Lv 1 |
| 🥔 Potato ⭐ | 60 min | 30 Gold | Lv 1 |
| 🌾 Wheat | 4 hours | 95 Gold | Lv 2 |
| 🥬 Lettuce | 8 hours | 145 Gold | Lv 3 |
| 🍍 Pineapple | 30 min | 15 Gold | Lv 4 |
| 🥕 Carrot | 2 hours | 50 Gold | Lv 5 |
| 🍓 Strawberry ⭐ | 6 hours | 125 Gold | Lv 6 |
| 🌽 Corn ⭐ | 12 hours | 170 Gold | Lv 6 |
| 🍇 Grape | — | 160 Gold | Lv 7 |
| 🍆 Eggplant | — | 135 Gold | Lv 8 |
| 🍵 Tea Tree | — | 25 Gold | Lv 11 |
| 🍫 Cacao Tree | — | 110 Gold | Lv 12 |
| 🥑 Avocado | — | 180 Gold | Lv 13 |
⭐ = Recommended for profit. Growth times for later crops are not yet confirmed.
💰 Best Crops for Profit
🥔 Potato vs 🍅 Tomato
Potatoes are significantly more profitable than tomatoes:
🍅 Tomato
| Growth: | 15 min |
| Seed: | 10 Gold |
| ★ Sell: | 30 Gold |
| ★★ Sell: | 40 Gold |
| ★★★ Sell: | 50 Gold |
🥔 Potato (Recommended)
| Growth: | 60 min |
| Seed: | 30 Gold |
| ★ Sell: | 90 Gold |
| ★★ Sell: | 120 Gold |
| ★★★ Sell: | 150 Gold |
Result: Potatoes earn 60-100 Gold more per harvest than tomatoes, despite the longer growth time.
🌽 Advanced: Corn-Strawberry Rotation
At Level 6+: Plant Corn before bed (12 hours) → Harvest in morning → Plant Strawberries (6 hours) → Harvest and replant. This rotation maximizes daily yield!
🧪 Fertilizer & Growth Boosters
Unlock these items at Gardening Level 2 — buy them from Blanc:
🌿 Fertilizer
- • Improves crop quality
- • Higher star crops = more Gold
- • Apply before watering
⚡ Growth Booster
- • Reduces growth time by 15 minutes
- • Great for quick harvests
- • Use on longer-growing crops
💡 Gardening Tips
✅ Do
- • Level up to Gardening Level 2 ASAP — unlocks better crop yields, fertilizer, and boosters
- • Plant potatoes over tomatoes — much better profit margin
- • Water every time you return home — missed watering delays growth
- • Cook crops into dishes before selling — 2-3x more Gold!
- • Clear weeds — they give gardening proficiency points
- • Buy more plant boxes as you level up to grow more crops simultaneously
❌ Don't
- • Sell raw crops — always cook them first!
- • Forget to water — every delay costs you Gold per day
- • Plant cheap seeds when you can afford potatoes
- • Ignore leveling — higher levels unlock more profitable crops
⬆️ Leveling Up Gardening
How to Earn Gardening Proficiency:
- 🌱 Plant seeds
- 💧 Water crops
- 🌾 Harvest crops
- 🌿 Remove weeds
Key Level Unlocks:
- Level 2: Fertilizer, Growth Booster, improved yields, Wheat
- Level 3: Flower seeds, Lettuce
- Level 4-5: More crops (Pineapple, Carrot)
- Level 6: Strawberry, Corn (best rotation crops)