okkkkk heres part three to my farming guide...... and the final part 2!
Protecting Your Plants
You can protect your crops by growing certain kinds of Flowers that will allow for prey to not pick on your produce. They are to be placed in the flower plots while you are growing the vegetables that are being protected. They can be grown fully and remain there while you are growing the vegetables and will not die.
Marigolds protect Onions, Potatoes and Tomatoes from disease.
Rosemary protects Cabbage from disease.
Nasturtiums protect Watermelons from disease.
Scarecrows
When you reach level 23 Farming, you’ll have the ability to make a Scarecrow. They will ward birds away from your Sweetcorn, thus preventing disease. They are to be placed in allotment patches once you’ve planted Sweetcorn. You will not be able to plant other crops around the Scarecrow.
To make a Scarecrow, first fill an Empty Sack with Straw by using with a Bale of Hay. An empty Sack can be crafted or bought from a Farming Shop. Stick the Sack of Hay onto a Bronze Spear, which can be obtained by killing Goblins. Place a Watermelon on top of the spear to make the Scarecrow’s head. Now just stand the fully completed Scarecrow inside of an empty allotment patch to protect your Sweetcorn plots.
Spirit Trees
You can also pay nearby Farmers to protect your Spirit Trees. Of course, you must pay them to protect your tree, and they require 5 Monkey Nuts, a Monkey Bar, and a ground Suqah Tooth.
Both monkey Nuts and Bars can be bought from Solihib’s Food Stall on Ape Atoll.
Suqah Teeth are a possible drop from Suqah monsters, located on Moonclan Island.
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Produce Containers
Once your crops are ready to be harvested, you can place your produce in the different containers to store them. Be sure to have the following in your inventory:
Vegetable Sack
Fruit Basket
These items can either be bought from a Farming Shop, or crafted on a Loom located in Sarah’s Farming Shop at the old farm south of Falador.
Vegetable sacks are made of 4 Jute Fibres grown by planting Jute seeds in a Hops plot.
Fruit baskets are made by pruning a young willow tree that you have grown and obtaining 6 branches.
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Other Events & Items
There are a few events and helpful things that may help you out while Farming.
Tool Damage
Just like in woodcutting, your rake head will fly off the handle and you will have to repair it by putting the pieces back together. If you can’t find the rake head, buy another rake from any of the stores listed above.
Gardener Assistance
If you need hired help to watch over a crop you can ask a nearby gardener to watch over your crop. They will love to help you for a tiny price of some farmed items.
Potatoes - 2 buckets of Compost.
Onions - 1 sack of Potatoes
Cabbages - 1 sack of Onions.
Tomatoes - 2 sacks of Cabbage
Sweetcorn - 10 Jute Fibres
Strawberries - 1 basket of Apples
Watermelon - 10 Curry Leaves
Barley - 3 buckets of Compost
Hammerstone Hops - 1 bunch of Marigolds
Asgarnian Hops - 1 sack of Onions
Jute - 6 Barley Malts
Yanillian Hops - 1 basket of Tomatoes
Krandorian Hops - 3 sacks of Cabbages
Wildblood Hops - 1 bunch of Nasturtiums
Oak Tree - 1 basket of Tomatoes
Willow Tree - 1 basket of Apples
Maple Tree - 1 Basket of Oranges
Yew Tree - 10 Cactus Spines
Magic Tree - 25 Coconuts
Apple Tree - 9 raw Sweetcorn
Banana Tree - 4 baskets of Apples
Orange Tree - 3 baskets of Strawberries
Curry Tree - 5 baskets of Bananas
Pineapple Plant - 10 Watermelons
Papaya Tree - 10 Pineapples
Palm Tree - 15 Papayas
Redberry Bush - 4 sacks of Cabbage.
Cadavaberry Bush - 3 baskets of Tomatoes
Dwellberry Bush - 3 baskets of Strawberries
Jangerberry Bush - 6 Watermelons
Whiteberry Bush - 8 Bittercap Mushrooms
Poison Ivy Bush - 15 Coconuts
Nature Amulet
A Nature Amulet will allow you to hear about the quality of your crops. You will be able to go and work on other skills and your Nature Amulet can tell you your crop’s progress when you rub it. Nature Amulets have unlimited rubbing charges.
You can only have one Nature Amulet at a time. When you attempt to enchant an amulet you have just crafted, a message will appear blocking your magic. A Nature Amulet can only be used on one patch at a time.
To make one of these useful amulets, you’ll need to craft an Emerald Amulet unstrung and obtaining some Magic String from the roots of a grown Magic Tree. The Magic String can be spun on a spinning wheel. Attach the Magic String to the Emerald Amulet and enchant it. If your farming level or crafting level is not high enough to make an amulet, you can buy a Pre-Nature Amulet from other players. Once you have a Pre-Nature Amulet, use the Emerald Enchant spell to transform it into a Nature Amulet. Once it is enchanted, it is untradable.
Capt’ Arnav
He will come and tell you that you are planting seeds in a place where he buried treasure and will ask you for help with opening the chest. A puzzle screen will pop up with 3 columns (up and down) and may have 3 rotating items in each column:
Gold Necklace
Gold Ring
Gold Bar
Coins
At the bottom of each column will be the word of the item you will need to move into the middle row. Use the cursors at the top and bottom to move that named item into the middle of each column and unlock the chest. For helping him, he will give you a token of thanks and be gone. If you do not help him he will teleport you away. For more info, check the Random Events guide.
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Tips & Tricks
A good place to start with farming is the Catherby vegetable, flower and herb plots. It is the closest place to the bank, so if you need more seeds or farming items you can quickly make a bank run for them. Also in the time that you are waiting for your seeds to grow, you can go fishing and check on them every 5-10 minutes. That way you can practice fishing, cooking and farming at the same time.
If you are in need of lots of Compost just to have in your bank, go to the plots where the compost bins are (Catherby, Ardougne, Old Farm - because these are more close together) and make 3 bins full. In the long run you will have 3 times as much compost that you’d regularly get from one bin.
Its easy to carry a few main things at all times in your inventory so you can just hang out at the plots. For example: take the vegetable seeds you are planting (Potatoes) and bring the flower that will help fight against the diseases (Marigolds) and some herb seeds (Guam). Always bring the seeds you are planting and a rake, seed dibber, 2 plant cures, 2 watering cans, and 4 compost buckets. Then you are ready for anything that will come along. If you want, you can bring sacks to fill your produce with.
Need more buckets? Not a problem. It seems that people who buy the Compost tend to drop their buckets! Great way for collecting a bunch for when you make your own. There are also bucket spawns in Catherby if you tend to farm there regularly.
If you need produce to pay Gardeners to watch over your crops, pick up the produce other players have dropped from their crops and hand it over to the gardener.
Magic secateurs can be obtained as a reward for completing the A Fairy Tale Part 1: Growing Pains quest. They increase the amount of herbs, vegetables or hops you collect when farming by 10% when you wield them. 10% may seem small, but in the long run, it is very useful, and makes that quest worthwhile to complete only to get that farming tool.
