Summary
Trellis crops can be a pain in the butt, at least inStardew Valley. Once planted, you can’t pass through the spot they occupy, like you can with all the other crops in the game. That means you have to think out how to plant these crops to ensure you can still move around and harvest everything.
But, if you plant them right, it can be fun to grow the different trellis crops in their rightful seasons. You can even have some fun with how you work these crops into your farm design. Either way, you can rely on these tips to ensure you have an easier time with them.
This list highlights the three trellis crops: green beans, hops, and grapes. All the tips are focused on ease of movement and harvesting.
8In Line With Sprinklers
Planting your trellis cropsin line with your sprinklersis a tried and true way to be able to move around easily and grow everything you want. It ensures that you may still harvest all of your crops while keeping everything looking nice and neat.
The main thing you have to be careful about is if your line of crops butts up against a wall or other obstacle. Otherwise, this way helps keep room for all other crops while you grow green beans, hops, or grapes.
7Encircle Your Sprinklers
If you are happy with your sprinkler placement, you may ensnare them with trellis crops. That is to say, you can plant the trellis crops to completely encircle your sprinklers.
Although this makes it so you can’t move your sprinklers, it does leave plenty of room to move around and fill your field with additional, non-trellis crops.
This tip is aimed at quality and iridium sprinklers, not the first sprinklers you unlock through farming that only water four spaces. This can still work, but makes moving around more difficult.
6Encircle Your Crop Field
If you like the idea of encircling your sprinklers but want more trellis crops, you can instead encircle your entire crop field or, in this example, line theGreenhousefarming boarders with trellises.
It is important to note, that you can’t do this without leaving at least one space for you to enter and exit your circle of crops. Otherwise, you can’t access any of the crops within the outline of trellises.
5Using Garden Pots
Speaking of the Greenhouse, instead of giving up any room in the limited plot of soil, you can line your Greenhouse not withfruit treesbut with garden pots instead.
Doing this lets you utilize the space you otherwise couldn’t grow any crops in, and it’s also still incredibly easy to move around and harvest everything. But you may want to retain soil, otherwise, you will have to water these crops every day.
There are multiple retaining soils, but only one that keeps crops watered all the time. You’ll want deluxe retaining soil if you don’t want to water your garden pot plants.
4Every Other Plot
Although this will slow down your planting process, you can place your trellis crops in every other spot in your field or your Greenhouse.
This is a beautiful way to not only ensure you can move around freely but to also grow a great number of these crops. It also leaves room for you to grow other things and diversify your farmland.
3Vertical Rows
This isn’t a new take on how to plant trellis crops, but the reason for that is that vertical rows just work and are easy to both plant and move through.
It’s the same concept as lining your trellis crops up with your sprinklers but takes the next step of adding more rows. You’ll have to mind your sprinkler location, but it’s a very manageable thing to do.
2Horizontal Columns
It’s just like rows, but flipped! More seriously, columns are just as easy, if not more so, to plant and navigate through as vertical rows.
These two tips are really up to you and how you usually walk through and plant in your crop field. If you naturally go side to side when you are planting and harvesting, this is the tip for you. But if you usually go up and down, then you may prefer vertical rows.
1Planting In Patterns
Although this may not be the easiest way to plant your trellis crops, it can be the most fun or reflect how you truly want your farm to look.
Use your trellis crops to draw out shapes. A heart, moon, star, or anything you can think up and do in a grid setting can be made with your trellis crops. But, again, keep in mind that you should leave a spot for you to move through if you plan to plant anything on the inside of your pattern or shape.
