Gardening

The vegetable highway in Serbule.

“

Growing things in a garden: herbs, food, and flowers.

Gardening is a trade skill that allows to grow plants: fruits, flowers, vegetables. The plants can be used in other trade skills and sometimes as quest objectives (ie. collect flowers).

Related Skills

Primary:

• Foraging

Secondary:

• Cooking for Food Buffs that require vegetables
• Nature Appreciation Grow your own Flowers
• Textile Creation Grow your own Cotton

Basic plants usually require a Bottle of Water to be grown, while higher level ones require a Bottle of Fertilizer.

Seeds can be bought from NPCs such as Therese, and often drops from creatures (for example Panthers in Eltibule).

To plant a seed simply right-click the seeds in your inventory. You must be in a gardening area.

Note that seeds are also prized as a gift for Hulon.

• Empty Bottles are returned to your inventory after utilizing a Fertilizer.
• Empty Bottles are returned to your inventory after utilizing a Bottle of Water.
• It is not necessary to buy a Bottle of Water from Therese after the initial investment. Full bottles cost 100 gold, but refilling bottles at the well in the middle of Serbule town is free.
• You can only plant 2 seeds of every Vegetable, 3 of any combination of Flowers, and 5 Cotton in total.

Gardening Locations

Locations that allow gardening can usually be distinguished by the row of vegetables and cabbage on the ground.

Serbule

Serbule Keep, south part of town near Therese

The farm west of town

Eltibule

Sie Antry's homestead (Jesina and water are nearby)

A small garden plot near an abandoned house just outside of Eltibule Keep

Vegetables

Seeds	Level	Gardening XP	Grow Time	Location	Value	Profit	Needs Fertilizer
Potato Seedling	0	30	50s	Can be purchased from Therese, Jesina, or Kelim.	5	-2	No
Onion Seedling	5	70	50s	Can be purchased from Therese, Jesina, or Kelim.	6	-4	No
Cabbage Leafling	10	100	55s	Can be purchased from Therese, Jesina, or Kelim.	8	8	Yes
Beet Seedling	20	200	1m 5s	Can be purchased from Therese, Jesina, or Kelim.	10	10	Yes
Squash Seedling	30	400	2m 50s	Can be purchased from Therese (with favor), Jesina, or Kelim.	13	27	Yes
Broccoli Seedling	40	600	2m 55s	Can be purchased from Therese (with favor) or Kelim.	15	30	Yes
Carrot Seedling	50	750	2m 55s	Can be purchased from Therese (with favor) or Kelim.	18	22	Yes
Green Pepper Seeds	55	???	??	Can be purchased from Kelim. (with favor)	25	25	??
Red Pepper Seeds	60	???	??	Can be purchased from Kelim. (with favor)	30	30	??

Flowers

Seeds	Level	Gardening XP (Base)	Grow Time	Location	Value	Profit	Needs Fertilizer
Bluebell Seeds	3	45	1m 10s	Found in Serbule and Eltibule, Myconian Cave drop.	5	15	Yes
Red Aster Seeds	10	30	1m 30s	Found in Serbule and Eltibule.	6	24	Yes
Violet Seeds	15	225	1m 50s	Found in Eltibule.	7	33	Yes
Dahlia Seeds	20	300	2m 0s	Found in Eltibule.	8	48	Yes
Daisy Seeds	25	325	2m 10s	Found in Eltibule and Sun Vale.	9	51	Yes
Pansy Seeds	30	450	2m 20s	Found in Sun Vale.	10	60	Yes
Marigold Seeds	35	525	2m 30s	Found in Sun Vale.	11	69	Yes
Poppy Seeds	40	600	2m 40s	Found in Sun Vale.	12	78	Yes
Red Rose Seeds	45	675	3m 40s	??	13	87	Yes
Elven Lily Seeds	50	750	3m 0s	Random drop from level 40-60 enemies.	14	96	Yes
Winterhue Seeds	55	825	3m 10s	Found in Kur Mountains.	15	110	Yes
Desert Rose Seeds	60	???	??	Found in Ilmari.	16	134	Yes

Unique

Seeds	Level	Gardening XP (Base)	Grow Time	Location	Value	Profit
Cotton	35	250	2m 30s	Found in Eltibule.	3	3	Yes

Gardening Complete Recipe List

Click "Expand" on the box below to view a complete list of Recipes for the Gardening skill.

Lvl	Name	First-Time XP	XP	Ingredients	Results	Description	Source
5	Basic Fertilizer (from Dirt)	100	30	Bottle of Water x3 Strange Dirt x1	Bottle of Fertilizer x3	Prepare basic fertilizer, suitable for fertilizing simple flowers and some vegetables. Creates three doses.	Item: Gardening: Basic Fertilizer Training: Julius Patton
8	Basic Fertilizer (from Bone)	100	30	Bottle of Water x3 Bone Meal x9	Bottle of Fertilizer x3	An alternate way to create basic fertilizer that uses a whole bunch of bone meal as the key ingredient. Creates three doses.	Training: Julius Patton Training: Therese
35	Sift Through Grass For Barley Seeds	150	15	Grass x1	Barley Seeds x1 (!) Barley Seeds x1 (!) Barley Seeds x1 (!)	Sift through a pile of grass, looking for plantable barley seeds. Yields between 0 and 3 seeds.	Training: Suspicious Cow
40	Basic Fertilizer (from Rotten Meat)	400	100	Bottle of Water x3 Rotten Meat x2	Bottle of Fertilizer x3	An alternate way to create basic fertilizer that uses rotten meat as the key ingredient. Creates three doses.	Training: Kelim

Gardening Level Up Rewards

Level	Reward
20	+1 to Foraging
25	+1 to Rabbit
30	+1 to Cooking
40	+1 to Nature Appreciation
45	+1 to Pig
48 (!)	+1 to Fairy Magic
50	+1 to Foraging
51	+1 to Cow
53	+1 to Rabbit
55	+1 to Nature Appreciation
60	+1 to Mycology
70	+1 to Cooking

Notes

• Most seeds can be collected randomly by looting corpses.
• Having the Performance Appreciation buff active while gardening will increase the experience gained for each plant harvested.
• Playing an instrument or standing in the proximity of someone playing one while gardening will also randomly yield more harvest. You will be prompted when this effect takes place.
• The recipe for Bottle of Fertilizer can be bought from Therese. That recipe takes one Strange Dirt.
• After gaining favor with her to Friend, she will also sell a followup recipe how to make Fertilizer from Bone Meal. At Close Friends Therese will teach you a recipe how to make Bone Meal from Femurs.