RuneScape; Basic Basic Vegetable Allotment, Flower, and Herb Farming

RuneScape farming is a members-only skill in the MMORPG RuneScape. Multiple crops are grown through the RuneScape farming skill. This article will focus on farming RuneScape Vegetables, RuneScape flowers, and RuneScape Herbs.

RuneScape has four main farming locations for these crops. Each RuneScape farming location contains two allotments for vegetables, a flower patch, and an herb patch. There is also a compost bin, a caretaker and a tool leprechaun.

Vegetables grow in RuneScape farming allotments. You can grow Potatoes, Onions, Cabbages, Tomatoes, Sweetcorn, Strawberries, and Watermelons. Potatoes, onions, and cabbages can go in sacks; a sack will hold ten. Tomatoes and strawberries go in baskets, which hold five. Sacks and baskets no longer play an important role in RuneScape farming save for transporting cabbages to compost bins. RuneScape vegetables, like any RuneScape crop, can get diseased and die. Vegetables (and flowers) can be watered with a watering can during any of their four stages of development. Watering protects from disease throughout that stage. Treating the farming patch with compost or supercompost also helps prevent disease. Diseased plants can be cured with plant cure, which sells in farming stores for 40 gold. RuneScape players receive experience for weeding, treating with compost, planting, and harvesting the patch. Compost is easy to obtain, use on potatoes, cabbage, onions, and tomatoes to increase yield and train faster. Use supercompost on valuable vegetables if desired.

Flower patches allow you to grow flowers. Nasturtium and Marigold, if allowed to remain fully grown in the patch, will protect certain crops from disease. Marigolds, which can be grown with level two farming, are in high demand by players power leveling in summoning and are worth 3k RuneScape gold. Woad can be grown for Woad leaves, used in making blue dye. Limpwurt roots can be grown in a flower patch and produce three Limpwurt roots, worth between 900 and 1,300 RuneScape gold each. Growing flowers is usually a good way to make some gold while farming. Scarecrows, which protect sweetcorn from disease, can be set up in a flower patch.

Herbs are grown in herb patches. By growing herbs, you can make RuneScape gold while training farming. Use the herbs to train the herblore skill so you can train herblore while still making some gold. With higher farming levels, you can grow valuable herbs and make lots of RuneScape gold. Always use compost on herb patches, use supercompost on Harralander or higher. Using compost and supercompost increase the yield of vegetables and herbs. Herbs cannot be watered with a watering can.

Compost Bins allow you to make compost. Weeds, most vegetables, flowers, and herbs can be composted. Some items make supercompost. These items can be gathered, grown (watermelon) or bought on the grand exchange for upwards of 100 RuneScape gold depending on the item. Supercompost sells on the grand exchange for around 500 RuneScape gold, making it profitable.

Caretakers will sell you tools for way more gold than the tools are worth. They will look over your vegetables if you pay them. Payment is usually a vegetable in a sack or basket. Depending on the crop and value of payment, it may or may not be worth paying caretakers.

Tool Leprechauns are very helpful training farming. They can exchange crops for banknotes. Use (don't eat) the crop on the leprechaun to exchange the crop for banknotes. Bank noting is very helpful for vegetables and herbs. Tool leprechauns don't unnote, so be sure you don't need the item for compost. Dirty and clean herbs can be exchanged for bank notes now. Tool leprechauns also hold one of every farming tool. Tool leprechauns hold 31 empty buckets, 255 buckets of compost, and 255 buckets of supercompost, like a "bank" for storing tools and compost. If making compost for RuneScape gold, compost can be withdrawn from a tool leprechaun near a bank and banked.

Allotment farming is great for starting farming training and remains a good way to train due to its potential to make good RuneScape gold in higher levels while growing herbs. Allotments provide vegetables that are useful in cooking or making compost. Flower patches (level 2+) provide good income with Marigolds and Limpwurt roots, while Herb patches (level 9+) provide RuneScape gold and free herbs for training herblore.