How to Succeed on Farmville

Determine how often you'll be visiting your farm. If only once a day or every few days, make sure to plant crops that take longer to harvest. If visiting your farm frequently throughout the day, figure out how often and plant crops that will harvest close to time you plan on returning. While crops with the shorter times may earn less money, they allow you to plot more frequently, speeding up the time it takes you to earn XP. This will allow you to advance past levels quicker and reach much more lucrative crops.

Make sure to check on your Farmville crops periodically so they don't die. After a crop is ready to be harvested, the amount of time it will stay alive is the same amount of time it took to grow. For example pumpkins take 8 hours to harvest, so once ready, you have 8 hours to harvest the crop before it dies.

Help out your friends. Because Farmville is a game accessed through Facebook, it only makes sense that success on the game is relied heavily upon social networking. Make sure to request as many Farmville neighbors as you can and visit their farms. Often neighbors need help and you can earn coins as well as XP just by visiting their farms and performing tasks that are as simple as one click. You can also earn more by fertilizing their farms. If they return the favor, you will earn extra XP on the fertilized crops when harvesting.

Expand your farm. Do this as soon as you can afford it. While you might not want to give up all of your hard earned Farmville coins at once, just remember that a bigger farm means more space to plant resulting in more XP and more Farmville coins. Always worth it.

Stay away from pointless decorations until you can afford it. Farmville wants you to spend your hard earned coins or Farmville cash on just about anything. While they may look nice, at the moment, mailboxes and butter churns do absolutely nothing except give you a one time XP boost. Stick to buying crops, trees, animals, or anything that can earn you coins in return until you can afford to waste coins.

Give gifts to friends. Friends on Farmville that are at higher levels than you have access to better gifts and can give you objects that you may not be able to reach just yet. If your friends give you trees and animals this can help you earn coins much quicker absolutely free.

Once you've got Farmville coins and XP to your liking, go crazy and make all the lavish purchases you desire.