Greenhouse
Greenhouse | |
A place to grow crops from any season, year round! | |
Information | |
Build cost | All Pantry Bundles completed or 35,000g for Joja |
Build materials | None |
Size | 7x6 |
The Greenhouse is a building present on the farm from the outset. However, initially it is in a state of disrepair, making it unusable.
The building can be repaired by completing the Pantry bundles for the Community Center, or by purchasing it for35,000g through the Joja Community Development Projects.
Crops grown inside the greenhouse are not subject to season restrictions, allowing you to produce most plants and fruit trees, regardless of the time of year.
Basics
The interior of the building features a 10-by-12 plot for crops, and a trough to refill your Watering Can (though only the right side of the trough can be used).
Scarecrows are not required in the greenhouse to prevent crows from eating crops.
Crops and fruit trees will never be hit by lightning.
Fertilizer in the greenhouse lasts for one season only.
Fruit trees can be grown in the tiled area outside of the wooden border that surrounds the soil.
Bee houses placed inside of the greenhouse produce no honey.
Optimizing Yields
Given that the greenhouse permits the production of most crops, regardless of season, the limited growing space it houses is quite valuable and should not be wasted.
Sprinkler Arrangement
If you intend to use automated sprinklers to water crops, some soil tiles will have to be sacrificed to place the sprinklers. This is due to the fact that the growing area is too large for any sprinkler to water the center from any edge.
Fortunately, in the optimal configuration only 4 tiles are lost, leaving ~97% of the useful area to be used. This is mostly thanks to the fact that sprinklers can be placed on the wooden railing bordering the farmable area.
Due to the odd dimensions, there are many different ways to locate sprinklers in the greenhouse. Below are some possible sprinkler arrangements that achieve optimal coverage while limiting the number of squares that are covered. Note that in each case some sprinklers have to be located on the wooden border.
16 Quality Sprinklers. 12 crop spaces are lost to sprinklers (-10%) leaving room for 108 crops.
6 Iridium Sprinklers. Only 4 crop spaces are lost to sprinklers (-4%) leaving room for 116 crops.
Fruit Tree Arrangement
Fruit trees can be grown in the tiled area outside of the wooden border that surrounds the soil. This tiled area is two tiles thick, consisting of an inner rectangle next to the wooden border, and an outer rectangle next to the Greenhouse wall. The outer rectangle includes the outermost corners, which are complete tiles even though the wall appears to slant through them. Unlike farmland tiles, neither the building edge nor the wooden border hinder the growth of fruit trees. Even the furniture items (like planters and barrels), purely decorative, do not crowd out the trees and stall their growth. In fact, fruit trees can be planted and grow right on top of a visual decoration (on the same tile), if so desired. (It is difficult to imagine why it would be desirable to plant a tree on top of the water trough, even though it would not hinder one from filling the water can.)
Therefore, the only considerations to be made when planting trees are their proximity to one another, and to any sprinklers that might be placed on the wood border. The trees will stall and refuse to grow if a sprinkler is occupying the 8-tile prohibited zone around the tree before it reaches maturity. As such, it may be necessary to temporarily move sprinklers for one season while the tree grows to its full size, or instead, to plant some of the trees in the outer rectangle, away from the sprinklers.
With this in mind, it is possible to grow at least 18 fruit trees inside the greenhouse. One possible optimal configuration is displayed in the image that follows.
6 Iridium Sprinklers and 18 Fruit Trees placed to maximize planting space and trees.
Tip
You may notice that the given optimal configuration places one tree so that it blocks direct access to the right side of the watering can. One must go around the tree to get water. The image of the filled Greenhouse below, however, opens the access by placing only five trees in the north (top) row, reducing the total number of trees to 17. An alternative placement puts one tree in the outer rectangle, one tile away from the right side of the watering trough. Moving the next tree east one tile east, and the last tree into the corner, completes the configuration, which allows both easy access to the watering can, and the maximum 18 trees in the Greenhouse, all without planting on top of any visual objects.
Gallery
- Greenhousefruit.jpg
Filled
History
- 1.0: Introduced.
- 1.07: Trees can no longer be planted on perimeter tiles around the soil area.
- 1.1: Trees can once again be planted on outside perimeter tiles.
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