Monday, May 31, 2010

( Lesson 9 ) Keeping Track

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As your farm gets bigger and you plant more and more different kinds of crops, you may start to lose track of what is planted where and when it will be ready for harvest. This is easy to do, but you can help yourself by following a few simple guidelines for planting and organization.
First, it's a good idea to plant in blocks. This means that you'll have a symmetrical section for each type of crop. It's much easier to keep track of crops in various stages of growth if they're grouped together and not winding all over the place and around each other. For example, you may want to plant a 3 by 3 section of eggplants, adjacent to a 3 by 3 section of soybeans, and continue on like that.
It's also a good idea not to plant the same type of crop at two different times. That's because it's very easy to forget about one of them and not go back to harvest until the later one is ready. By then you may have already lost your first crop. Planting all pumpkins at one time, and then all squash the next will make it much easier for you to remember what needs to be harvested when.

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