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Seeds
There are over 40 different types of seeds, the groups for planting are: Tree, Herb, Vegetable, Flower, Cactus, Mushroom, Fruit Tree, Spirit Tree, Calquat, Hops, and Bush. Each one has thier own patch, and certain flower seeds protect other types of plants.
Marigolds- Protect onions, tomatoes, and potatoes from disease.
Rosemary- Protects Cabbage from disease.
Scarecrow- Protects Sweetcorn from birds
Nasturtiums- Protect watermelons from disease.
Getting your seeds
There are various ways to get seeds, there are stall in drynor which you need 27 thieving to steal from. There are also Master Farmers which you can pickpockets, you'll need 38 to steal from them. if you haven't stolen from stalls or pickpocketed farmers lately, you can buy seeds from the stall owner. You can also get seeds as monster drops from monsters as, farmers and moss giants.
Tree Seeds
Tree seeds can be obtained by cutting down trees, and gettting birds nests. Don't think you'll always get a tree seed though, sometimes regular seeds are in them too!

Seed List- I changed some of the catagories from RuneScape.com. Next to the seed is where you can find them the easiest, the level to plant is before the seed name.(other than trading other players)
Allotment Seeds
1-Potatoe Seed- Pickpocket/Steal from stall
5-Onion Seed- Pickpocket/Steal from stall
7-Cabbage Seed- Pickpocket/Steal from stall
12-Tomato Seed- Pickpocket/Steal from stall
20-Sweetcorn Seed- Pickpocket/Steal from stall
31-Strawberries Seed- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
47-Watermelons Seed- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
Hops
3-Barley- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
4-Hammerstone Hops- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
8-Asgarnian Hops- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
13-Jute Plants- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
16-Yanillian Hops- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
21-Krandorian Hops- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
28-Wildblood Hops- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
Trees
15-Acorn(Oak Tree)- Bird Nests
30-Willow Tree Seed- Bird Nests
45-Maple Tree Seed- Bird Nests
60-Yew Tree Seed- Bird Nests
75-Magic Tree Seed- Bird Nests
83-Spirit Tree Seed- Bird Nests ~~~You may have 1 planted/grown at a time!
27-Apple Tree Seed- Bird Nests
33-Banana Tree Seed- Bird Nests
39-Orange Tree Seed- Bird Nests
42-Curry Tree Seed- Bird Nests
51-Pineapple Plant Seed- Bird Nests
57-Papaya Tree Seed- Bird Nests
68-Palm Tree Seed- Bird Nests
Bushes
10-Redberry Bush Seeds- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
22-Cadavaberry Bush Seed- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
36-Dwellberry Bush Seed- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
48-Jangerberry Bush Seed- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
59-Whiteberry Bush Seed- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
70-Posin Ivy Seed- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
Flowers
2-Marigold Seed- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
11-Rosemary Seed- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
24-Nasturtium Seed- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
25-Woad Leaf Seed- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
26-Limpwurt Seed- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
Herbs
9-Herb Seed(Guam Leaf)- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
14-Herb Seed(Marentill)- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
19-Herb Seed(Tarromin)- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
26-Herb Seed(Harralander)- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
32-Herb Seed(Rannar Seed)- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
38-Herb Seed(Toadflax)- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
44-Herb Seed(Irit Leaf)- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
50-Herb Seed(Avantoe)- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
56-Seed(Kwuarm)- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
62-Herb Seed(Snapdragon)- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
67-Herb Seed(Cadantine)- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
73-Herb Seed(Lantadyme)- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
79-Herb Seed(Dwarf Weed)- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
85-Herb Seed(Torstol)- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
Mushrooms
53-Mushroom Spore(Bittercap Mushroom)- Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
Cacti
55-Cactus Seed-Pickpocket/Steal from stalls
Belladonna
63-Belladonna (Nightshade)-Moss Giant drop
Calquat
72-Calquat Tree Seed- ?

Scarecrows(Posted Image)
Like other flowers, scarecrows help protect your crops. Once you reach level 20, you have the ability to plant sweet corn. Once you begin to plant corn, you'll notice that it pesky birds keep eating it before you have a chance to harvest! That's where the scarecrow comes into play! Scarecrows occupy flower patches. These can be found near atollments (in variety farming patches) These will help protect your corn from those birds.
To build a scarecrow, you must first have level 23 farming. Next you should get a sack by either crafting or buying from a farming shop. Fill the sack with straw by "using" it with a square bale of hay(Posted Image). Then, get a bronze spear. To get this, you must either buy one, or kill goblins. Use the spear with the sack of hay(Posted Image). Now you must get a watermelon. You must either buy one from a player or the shop or grow one with 43 farming. Use it with the sack that was pierced by the spear.(Posted Image)
Now your ready to set up the scarecrow in your flower patch!

Tools and Compost
(Posted Image)Watercan: Used to water your seeds and helps them be healthier.
(Posted Image)Spade: Not made for only farming, but used to harvest your crops. Also used to get rid of dead plants.
(Posted Image)Seed Dibber: You must have this in your inventory to plant seeds
(Posted Image)Gardening Boots: Add +1 to farming.
(Posted Image)Rake: Used to clean up weeds to you can lay compost and plant
(Posted Image)Secateurs: Used to cure bushes and trees from disease.
(Posted Image)Gardening Trowel: Used to take saplings out of pots to put in a tree patch.
(Posted Image)Compost: Used before you plant to treat the ground.

Planting
First take a bucket of compost, you can make your own(see Compost) or buy some at a farming store. Use the bucket of compost on the place you wish to plant, then water that spot. Make sure you have your seed dibber in your inventory and use the seed with the spot. Use the seed with a spot in the patch and the patch will fill up, you've just planted seeds!

Tree Planting
To plant trees you must buy a plant pot, make sure you have a garden trowel too, and a watercan to water your seed. Use the seed with the pot to create a Seeding, water it, after it grows into a sapling plant it in a tree patch.

Harvesting
Regular Harvesting
This is quite easy, just have a spade in your inventory and choose the Harvest option.
Herb Picking
Just choose the Pick Herbs option, simple.
Trees
Check the health and chop it down, it will respwan to clear it out use a spade on the stump.
Bushes
Check the health, if its healthy pick the berries, to clewar it use a spade to dig it out.
Dead Plants(regular harvesting)
Just use a spade on the dead crop, and the patch is ready for replanting.

Compost(Posted Image)
Compost can be made by using weeds, plants and others things (like your crops). Just take an organic item and use it on the compost bin, it can take a fair amount of time to rot, so if you plan to plant crops immediately then you should probably just buy some compost from the farming shops located around runescape! After you filled the compost bin up, close it and wait, when it is finsihed open it up and use as many buckets with it as you need (until it's empty of course). This can be used to treat your ground. NEVER use tomatoes to make compost, it will not make compost, ust rotton tomatoes.
Super Compost
To see if an item makes super compost use it with a farmer and they will tell you. Here is a list of what can be used to make super compost(not done):
Pineapples

Disease
Plants can get diseased. The best thing to do is see if your crop has flower protection(see above) and plant flowers to help. To cure disease buy a cure(Posted Image). You can buy them from the farmer walking around your crops, or from a farming store. To cure trees or bushes use your secateurs. If your crops are diseased you cannot get a farmer to take care of them! Laying down compost can decrease the risk of disease.

Farmer Assistance
Different Farmers ask for different things. You will not need to do anything to these crops until they are ready to be harvested. Sometimes you will need baskets or sacks, these can be bought at farming stores. Sacks hold 10 each, and baskets hold 5 each.
This is the chart for paying farmers:
1 Sack Of Potatoes- Crops here(I forgot them)
1 Sack Of Onions- Cabbage, Arsgarnian Hops
4 Sacks Of Cabbage- Redberrybush
2 Buckets Of Compost- Potatoes
2 Sacks Of Cabbage- Tomatoes
Basket Of Tomatoes- Oak Tree
Basket Of Apples- Willow Tree
3 Baskets of Tomatoes- Cadavaberry Bushes
10 Jute Fibres- Sweetcorn

Plant Use
Hops- Hops can be used is brewing, which is making ales or cider.Breweries are found in Keldagrim and Port Phasmatys, you need the main ingrediants(most of the time hops), 4 buckets of water, 2 handfuls of barley malt(barley roasted on a range)., and a pot of ale yeast.(can be bought from brewers)
Jute Fibers- Jute fibers can be used to make sacks, in which to carry crops, and saving inventory space.
Willow Branches(cut young branches from player-grown willow trees with a pair of secateurs)- Used to make fruit baskets.


Farming Random Events
Capt' Arnav- If you fail you will end up in a random place.
Nature Amulet

Farming Patches- Vegetable spots are now called allotment.
Northwest of port phasmatys:(Posted Image)(Posted Image)
North of Ardougne:(Posted Image)(Posted Image)

North Of Catherby:(Posted Image)(Posted Image)
South Of Falador, west of Draynor:(Posted Image)(Posted Image)

Tree, bush, and other certain spots

Trees
West Of Lumbridge Castle:(Posted Image)
Falador Park:(Posted Image)
Taverly:(Posted Image)
In Varrock Castle, just northeast of the entrance:
(Posted Image)

Fruit Trees
Southeast of Catherby:(Posted Image)
Brimhaven South of boats to Arougdne:(Posted Image)
Gnome Stronghold: (Posted Image)
West of Tree Gnome Village: (Posted Image)

Bushes
Northwest Of Rimmington: (Posted Image)
West Of Champion'sGuild:(Posted Image)
South of Aroudgne[Bush]:(Posted Image)
Western Etceteria: (Posted Image)

Spirit Trees
Northern Point Of Port Sarim:(Posted Image)
Northwest the Brimhaven Agility Course:(Posted Image)
Southern Etceteria: (Posted Image)

Hops
Yanille:(Posted Image)
North Of McGrubbers Woods: (Posted Image)
Southwestern Entrana: (Posted Image)
North Of The Chickens, East Of Lumbridge: (Posted Image)

Cactus
Northern Al Kharid: (Posted Image)

Mushroom
Southwest of Canfis: (Posted Image)


Calquat
Karamja,east of anvil:(Posted Image)

Belladonna
Western Draynor Manor: (Posted Image)

Hours wasted, never trying to make a guide again. Please take the parts of mine off the site.

This post has been edited by xRyan on Jul 19 2005, 03:24 PM

nice guide, (i'm f2p)

but it looks good :)

who else loves the new farming title screen? oh ya thats an ok guide, but for the sectuars it says in the runescape manual what they do.

I have a nice tip for you if you want more experience while waiting for your crops to grow. If you are in the building north of Port Sarim I suggest you plant some vegetables (potatoes or something) on the 2 Vegetable Patches. Next, take your rake and weed the herb and flower patches, each weed gives you 4 exp.

XP:
Basic Farming
Weeding: 4xp Per layer 12 XP all together
Laying Down Compost: 18 XP
Getting Compost out of the bin: 4 XP
Getting Super Compost out of the bin: 8 XP
Setting Up Scarecrow: 8 XP

Planting
Tomatoes: 12XP
Rosemary: 12 XP
Cabbage: 10 XP
Tarromin: 16 XP
Limpwurt: 44 XP
Sweetcorn: 17 XP

Harvesting
Jute Seed: 72XP Each
Tomatoes: 14 XP Each
Rosemary: 67 XP
Tarromin: 18 XP Each
Limpwurt: 120 XP
Check Health-Trees and Bushes
Oak Tree- 467 XP
Willow- 1,456

Still need this I'll work on it, but all helping me is always a choice.

Things this guide needs:
More things farmers ask for to take care of your crops
More XP Stuff
New Random Event
Nature Amulet
More items used for super compost.

Credits: xRyan,halo-man31, MageCartman, wiseguy63000, Beeboy, candi, sootcat, jakedesnakey

This post has been edited by xRyan on Jul 13 2005, 08:01 PM

Anyone know where to plant hops?

This guide is gonna take a while to make with all the new stuff...

Where are bushes places??

The spots for trees have specific names, what an adventure this will be :P

This post has been edited by xRyan on Jul 11 2005, 01:39 PM

Why don't you say, what kind of Patches there are, and where they are :)

Later I was going to go to every farming patch(not tree spot too many of those) and screenie them and label.

Now I'm going to every tree place too, just not to screenie.

This post has been edited by xRyan on Jul 11 2005, 01:41 PM

nice guide to start off with

Moved up a post I'll use this if needed.

This post has been edited by xRyan on Jul 12 2005, 12:07 AM

i got some stuff gardening boots apparently raise farming buy 1 lvl when wore gardening trowel lets you take a tree seed out of pot when grown into sprout only bronze spear works yes flowers work 100 % and no1 can make a scarecrow yet cause no1 has 47 farming

Thanks mage cartmen I'll add that, and credit you. (p.s. kenny own cartman)

ps kennys in cartman =P