Farming Guide

Farming Guide


Getting Started


Farming Equipment

Before you can start Farming you will need to get some farming tools. These can all be bought in the Farming Shops located close to all allotment patches. They are relatively inexpensive at around a few gp each. Some of them can also be found at various respawning points, such as the shed in Lumbridge swamps. Here is a list of all the farming tools:

	Spade	Used to harvest crops, dead plants, plant roots and bushes. Also, to harvest trees and herbs.
	Seed dibber	Used to plant seeds
	Gardening trowel	Used for planting tree seeds in pots
	Secateurs	Needed to cut away diseased branches from bushes and trees
	Watering can	Used to water all your crops, herbs, and trees
	Rake	Used to clear weeds from patches
	Plant Pot	Used to plant tree seeds
	Basket	Used to store up to 5 fruits
	Sack	Used to store up to 10 vegetables (potatoes, onions and cabbage only).
	Gardening Boots	Dropped only by Farmers. Some boots for decorative purposes only.
	Plant Cure	Used to cure your plants and herbs if they get dieseased

Additional Tools:

	Magic Secateurs	A reward for completing Fariy Tale Part 1 Quest. You will given a pair of magic secateurs. If you equip these while harvesting, they will increase the number of vegetables, herbs or hops harvested by 10%. Also, if you wish to fight the tanglefoot monsters, the secateurs are the only effective weapon. The damage you inflict with the secateurs is based on your Farming skill
	Magic Watering can	A reward from Fairytale Part 3 Quest. You will be given a magic watering can which never has to be refilled. Also, if you speak with Martin the Master Gardener after this quest, the other gardeners will offer to keep your allotment patches weeded for you, should you wish.
	Amulet of Nature	The amulet of Farming will allow you to track the growth progress of a Farming patch that it has been attuned to - they can only be attuned to allotments or flower patches. Also, any amulets of Farming that you own can only be attuned to one patch at a time. You can, however, always reattune your amulets of Farming to a different patch. Amulets of Farming cannot be made by players, only bought in Farming shops or from other players. You can own more than one amulet of Farming at a time.

At each farming patch, you can find a leprechaun nearby. This leprechaun will offer to hold your tools, buckets, and compost in his magical tool shed. He will also note any farming produce from allotments, as well as flowers, herbs, and fruit from trees, even if you can't yet grow the items at your farming level. This includes anything that you can farm (except logs), even if you did not harvest the items yourself. However, the leprachaun at falador patch will not note cabbage due to cabbage field nearby. When you talk to the leprechaun, his tool shed storage screen will come up. It shows what items you can store, how many of each item are in the toolshed at the moment, and the maximum number of the items that the tool shed will hold.







Getting Seeds

You can get your seeds from various places. You can collect seeds by thieving from Master Farmers or from the Seed stalls. The Seed stalls do not yield herb seeds, while the Master Farmers do. Some monsters drop seeds. You can also purchase seeds from other players.

You can get tree seeds from a bird's nest. Bird's nests are randomly dropped from trees while you are woodcutting. Also, bird's nests can be obtained from Miscellania Kingdom. If you search a bird's nest, there is a chance you will find a tree seed, a ring, a fruit tree seed or a bird egg. You may also like Killing the Giant Mole who will give you mole skin and claws, in which you can trade to Wyson the Gardener in Falador park in exchange for 1 bird's nest per mole item you turn in.


Allotment, Flower, and Herb Patches

	North of Catherby Bank	You can Teleport to Camelot and walk east, or use the Lunar Catherby teleport. There is also a farming shop east of the patch. Where you can buy any items you might need.
	South of Falador	You can Teleport to cabbage patch using the Explorer's ring (3) and head north through the gate or to Draynor with an Amulet of glory, and go north-west through the cabbage patch. There is also a Farming shop to the west. Just jump over stile and head a little south.
	North-west of Port Phasmatys	Use your ectophial and go west past the undead farm or use the fairy ring teleport (ALQ) and head north. If you havent done quest, you can walk to this location. But I would suggest doing quest before doing this route. To save you time. There is also a farm shop to the east of the patch. Note: you need a ghostspeak amulet to use this shop.
	North of Ardougne	Best route is Ardougne teleport, go through the northern gate past the farms and then east. You can also use Ardougne Cloak Teleport. Which is obtained by completing Achievement Diary.
	Troll Stronghold (Herb Only)	This patch can be accessed using the Trollheim Teleport and running from the top of the hill to the stronghold. This patch becomes available after you finish My Arm's Big Adventure Quest Also, this patch will never become dieseased. Great for planting high levels seeds without worry of them dying.
	Harmony Island (1 Allotment patch Only)	You can use this patch after completeing The Great Brain Robbery Quest. I did not find this patch useful. It was to far and to much trouble to get to
	Limpwurt Patch Only	This is available after Spirit of Summer Quest. I also found this patch to be useless and now with recent updates. It's a high Risk area due to Pker's. It's located in level 22 wildy.

Below is a list of everything you can plant in allotment patches. I've included time for growth, farm level to plant, and xp for planting and picking. This is a rough guideline for you to follow. Times can vary if your patch becomes dieseased. Also, you require 3 seeds per patch when planting.

	Potatoes	Lvl 1	40 mins	8 xp for planting	9 xp ea for picking
	Onion	Lvl 5	40 mins	9.5 xp for planting	10.5 xp ea for picking
	Cabbage	Lvl 7	35 mins	10 xp for planting	11.5 xp ea for picking
	Tomato	Lvl 12	40 mins	12.5 xp for planting	14 xp ea for picking
	Sweetcorn	Lvl 20	55 mins	17 xp for planting	19 xp ea for picking
	Strawberry	Lvl 31	55 mins	26 xp for planting	29 xp ea for picking
	Watermelon	Lvl 47	75 mins	48.5 xp for planting	54.5 xp ea for picking

If you are unable to care for patches yourself. You can pay the farmers at each allotment to take care of them for you. This does not apply to herb patches unfortunately. Below is the list of items you must pay the farmers to look after your crops:

	2 Buckets of compost
	1 Sack of potatoes
	1 Sack of onions
	2 Sacks of cabbages
	10 Jute fibres
	1 Basket of apples
	10 Curry leafs

Flowers and Scarecrows

Scarecrow

Used to protect sweetcorn from getting eaten by birds. To make a scarecrow,Use a empty sack on a straw bale ( you can find a straw bale north of ardougne). Then use the hay sack on a bronze spear. ( you can get this by killing goblins in lumbridge or purchase from G.E.) Then use a watermelon on the bronze spear and hay sack as a head. Plant in a flower patch for 25xp and when your done you can place in Toolshed for later use. You can place up to 4 scarecrows in your toolshed

Its not required that you pick your flowers once they are grown. if you plan on planting the same seeds on your next farm run. You can let them there to protect your next harvest. With the exception of limpwurt and woad of course. You only require 1 seed when planting flowers.

	Marigold	Lvl 2	17.5 mins	8.5 XP for planting	47 XP for picking	Protects onions, tomatoes and potatoes
	Rosemary	Lvl 11	17.5 mins	12 XP for planting	66.5 XP for picking	Protects cabbage
	Nasturtium	Lvl 24	17.5 mins	19.5 XP for planting	111 XP for picking	Protects watermelon
	Woad	Lvl 25	17.5 mins	20.5 XP for planting	115.5 XP for picking	Give two Woad leaves and 5gp to Aggie in Draynor village to get blue dye.
	Limpwurt	Lvl 26	17.5 mins	21.5 XP for planting	120 XP for picking	Limpwurt Roots can be used in various herblore pots. I mainly used to make Super strength.
	White lily	Lvl 52	120 mins	50 XP for planting	250 XP for picking	Protects all fruits and vegetables. Seeds can be obtained while wielding a Falador 3 Shield ( Achievement Diary Reward ) from Wyson when trading in mole skins. Mole skins are obtained from killing Giant Mole. Also, turns to ashes when picked.

Herbs

Herbs play a major part in your goal for 99. It also goes hand in hand with herblore skill. Herbs cannot be protected in any way or be looked after by the farmer. With the exception of Troll Stronghold patch which is diesease free. If they get dieseased, use a plant potion on them or of you didnt make it in time. Simply use a spade and replant. Herbs also do not require watering. Also, when you harvest your herbs they will be grimy and you will require the appropriate herb level to clean them. Below are all herbs and approx times of growth. I've also added the xp for planting and picking.

	Guam	Lvl 9	75 mins	11 xp for planting	12.5 xp ea for picking
	Marrentill	Lvl 14	75 mins	13.5 xp for planting	15 xp ea for picking
	Tarromin	Lvl 19	75 mins	16 xp for planting	18 xp ea for picking
	Harralander	Lvl 26	75 mins	21.5 xp for planting	24 xp ea for picking
	Goutweed	Lvl 29	75 mins	105 xp for planting	45 xp ea for picking
	Ranarr	Lvl 32	75 mins	27 xp for planting	30.5 xp ea for picking
	Spirit Weed	Lvl 36	75 mins	32 xp for planting	36 xp ea for picking
	Toadflax	Lvl 38	75 mins	34 xp for planting	38.5 xp ea for picking
	Irit	Lvl 44	75 mins	43 xp for planting	48.5 xp ea for picking
	Wergali	Lvl 46	75 mins	52.8 xp for planting	51.5 xp ea for picking
	Avantoe	Lvl 50	75 mins	54.5 xp for planting	61.5 xp ea for picking
	Kwuarm	Lvl 56	75 mins	69 xp for planting	78 xp ea for picking
	Snapdragon	Lvl 62	75 mins	87.5 xp for planting	98.5 xp ea for picking
	Cadantine	Lvl 67	75 mins	106.5 xp for planting	120 xp ea for picking
	Lantadyme	Lvl 73	75 mins	134.5 xp for planting	151.5 xp ea for picking
	Dwarf Weed	Lvl 79	75 mins	170.5 xp for planting	192 xp ea for picking
	Torstol	Lvl 85	75 mins	199.5 xp for planting	224.5 xp ea for picking

I've also add a table below for cleaning your grimy herbs. If you really want your herbs cleaned but are not a high enough level you can have Zuhur in Nardah clean them for you at a cost of 200gp each.

Guam	lvl 3 herblore to clean
Marrentill	lvl 5 herblore to clean
Tarromin	lvl 11 herblore to clean
Harralander	lvl 20 herblore to clean
Goutweed	Requires Two Bai Cleanup Mini game
Ranarr	lvl 25 herblore to clean
Spirit Weed	lvl 30 herblore to clean
Toadflax	lvl 35 herblore to clean
Irit	lvl 40 herblore to clean
Wergali	lvl 41 herblore to clean
Avantoe	lvl 48 herblore to clean
Kwuarm	lvl 54 herblore to clean
Snapdragon	lvl 59 herblore to clean
Candantine	lvl 65 herblore to clean
Lantadyme	lvl 67 herblore to clean
Dwarf Weed	lvl 70 herblore to clean
Torstol	lvl 75 herblore to clean

Trees and Fruit Trees

You will need a trowel to plant your seeds in plant pots. Plant pots can be purchased from any farm shop. After planting your tree or fruit tree seed. Simply water and wait for your sapling to sprout. Trees do not need to be watered but if they become dieseased. You will need to use your secateurs on it. After your tree or fruit tree has grown. You can check its health then harvest, chop and remove for your next planting. You will also obtain roots when removing your trees which can be used for various things. ( Spinning, Summoning, Herblore or Super Compost) If your feeling lazy and dont want to chop your trees. You can pay the farmer by the patch to do it for you for 200gp. Also, keep in mind that if you choose to pay. you will not obtain roots.

Below is the location of all tree and fruit tree patches:

	Fruit Tree Patch East of Catherby	Teleport Camelot and run south to Catherby		Tree patch Falador Park	Teleport to Falador and walk west
	Fruit Tree Patch West of Tree Gnome maze	Use Spirit Tree to teleport to village and follow eknoy or walk from Ardrougne		Tree Patch Taverly	Teleport Falador and walk North-east
	Fruit Tree Patch North-west of Brimhaven	You can take a boat from Catherby or Ardrougne. If you plant a spirit tree. you can use this teleport option also.		Tree patch Varrock Castle	Varrock Teleport
	Fruit Tree Patch North of Gnome Agility Course	Teleport using Spirit Tree or you can use the glider from AlKharid.		Tree Patch Lumbridge	Lumbridge Teleport then walk east behind castle by rats
	Fruit Tree Patch South-east corner of Lletya	Just West of Teleport Crystal arrival Spot. You must have completed Mourning's Ends Part 1 quest to access this area.		Tree Patch Gnome Stronghold	Spirit tree teleport or you can use glider in Al Kharid

Here is a list of all trees and fruit trees, levels and XP. These are approximate growth times, since they depend on whether a tree suffers from disease
during its time in the ground, even when watched by farmers. I've also added a list of farming products you have to pay to let the farmer watch your crops. ( Farmers take noted items if your worried about inventory space)

	Acorn	Lvl 15	140 mins	14 xp for planting	463.7 XP for checking health
	Willow	Lvl 30	220 mins	25 xp for planting	1,456.3 XP for checking health
	maple	Lvl 45	300 mins	45 xp for planting	3,403.4 XP for checking health
	Yew	Lvl 60	380 mins	81 xp for planting	7,609.9 XP for checking health
	Magic	Lvl 75	460 mins	145 xp for planting	13,768.5 XP for checking health

	Oak Trees	1 basket of tomatoes
	Willow Trees	1 basket of apples
	Maple Trees	1 basket of oranges
	Yew Trees	10 cactus spines
	Magic Trees	25 coconuts

	Apple Trees	Lvl 27	14.6 hours	22 xp fpr planting	1,199.5 xp fpr checking health	8.5 xp for each fruit picked
	Banana Trees	Lvl 33	14.6 hours	28 xp for planting	1,750.5 xp fpr checking health	10.5 xp for each fruit picked
	Orange Trees	Lvl 39	14.6 hours	35 xp fpr planting	2,470 xp fpr checking health	13.5 xp for each fruit picked
	Curry Trees	Lvl 42	14.6 hours	40 xp fpr planting	2,907 xp fpr checking health	15 xp for each fruit picked
	Pineapple Trees	Lvl 51	14.6 hours	57 xp fpr planting	4,605.7 xp fpr checking health	21.5 xp for each fruit picked
	Papaya Trees	Lvl 57	14.6 hours	72 xp fpr planting	6,146.4 xp fpr checking health	27 xp for each fruit picked
	Palm Trees	Lvl 68	14.6 hours	110.5 xp fpr planting	10,150.1 xp fpr checking health	41.5 xp for each fruit picked

	Apple Tree	9 raw sweetcorn
	Banana Tree	4 baskets of apples
	Orange Tree	3 baskets of strawberries
	Curry Tree	5 baskets of bananas
	Pineapple Tree	10 watermelon
	Papaya Tree	10 pineapples
	Palm Tree	15 papaya

Hops

In my goal for 99 farm. I tried a hops run twice in that whole time. As I felt that it was more a waste of time for the hassle of the run. For such a little amount of xp. I will give a breif overview since you use hops for brewing ales (except jute). Also, you require wildblood hops( a payment to farmer) if you plan on doing Jade Vine. Below are the locations , seeds, and approximate growing times.

	McGruber's Wood North of Seers village		North of Lumbridge Farms
	Yanille		Entrana

	Barley	lvl 3	35 mins	3 buckets of compost to have looked after by farmer
	Hammerstone	lvl 4	35 mins	1 marigold to have looked after by farmer
	Asgarnian	lvl 8	45 mins	1 sack of onions to have looked after by farmer
	Jute	lvl 13	45 mins	6 barley malt (made by using barley on a range) to have looked after by farmer
	Yanillian	lvl 16	55 mins	1 basket of tomatoes to have looked after by farmer
	Krandorian	lvl 21	65 mins	3 sacks of cabbage to have looked after by farmer
	Wildblood	lvl 28	75 mins	1 nasturtium to have looked after by farmer

Bushes

There are four locations in which you can plant these. They don't require to be watered but can get dieseased (except poison ivy). Below are the locations of the patches:

	South Of Ardrougne		Rimmington
	South-west Etceteria		West of Champions' Guild

Here is a list of all seeds including growing times , levels required and xp. Ive also added payment required to have looked after by a farmer :

	Redberries	lvl 10	90 mins	11.5 XP for planting	64 XP for checking health	4 XP for picking	4 sacks of cabbage
	Cadavaberries	lvl 22	110 mins	18 XP for planting	104.5 XP for checking health	7 XP for picking	3 baskets of tomatoes
	Dwellberries	lvl 36	130 mins	31.5 XP for planting	177.5 XP for checking health	12 XP for picking	3 baskets of strawberries
	Jangerberries	lvl 48	150 mins	50.5 XP for planting	284.5 XP for checking health	19 XP for picking	6 watermelon
	Whiteberries	lvl 59	150 mins	78 XP for planting	437 XP for checking health	29 XP for picking	8 mushrooms
	Poison ivy Berries	lvl 70	150 mins	120 XP for planting	674 XP for checking health	45 XP for picking	Do not require since they are already poisonous

Special Patches

Specials become available after you have reached level 42 farming and higher. Below are the locations and some additional information regarding them. Please note that for most of your specials. They cannot be looked after by a farmer. They can become dieseased and die.

	Spirit tree South-east Etceteria	lvl 83	3680 mins	19,301.8 xp for checking health	Spirit Trees require Monkey Madness quest in order to plant. Also,after completing The Prisoner of Glorphire quest and with a Farming level of 86 or above, two Spirit Trees can be planted at the same time in different patches. Also, you can pay a farmer 5 monkey nuts, 1 monkey bar, 1 ground suqah tooth to have it looked after.
	Spirit tree West of Draynor (east of Port Sarim)	lvl 83	3680 mins	19,301.8 xp for checking health	Spirit Trees require Monkey Madness quest in order to plant. Also,after completing The Prisoner of Glorphire and with a Farming level of 86 or above, two Spirit Trees can be planted at the same time in different patches. Also, you can pay a farmer 5 monkey nuts, 1 monkey bar, 1 ground suqah tooth to have it looked after.
	Spirit tree North-east of Brimhaven	lvl 83	3680 mins	19,301.8 xp for checking health	Spirit Trees require Monkey Madness quest in order to plant. Also, after completing The Prisoner of Glorphire and with a Farming level of 86 or above, two Spirit Trees can be planted at the same time in different patches. Also, you can pay a farmer 5 monkey nuts, 1 monkey bar, 1 ground suqah tooth to have it looked after
	Cactus Al-Kharid	lvl 55	550 mins	374 xp for checking health	The cactus produces cactus spines which can be used for payment for your yew trees. You can also use Ring of Dueling and teleport to Duel Arena for easy access to this patch.
	Jade Vine Ardrougne	lvl 53	1200 mins	1500 xp for checking health	The Jade Vine can only be grown after the completion of the Back to my Roots quest. You are able to prune the vine, gaining 30 XP per branch cut. Should you allow the vine to grow wild, it can be killed to obtain 2500 slayer XP. Also, you can pay a farmer 10 wildblood hops to have it looked after.
	Belladonna Draynor Mansion	lvl 63	280 mins	512 xp for picking	U can use Falador Ring (Achievement Diary reward) to teleport to cabbage patch and walk north or Amulet of Glory teleport to Draynor village and walk from there.
	Bittercap Mushrooms West of Canifis	lvl 53	220 mins	57.6 xp for picking	I find that these become dieseased often. You can use the fairy ring teleport (CKS) or ancient magicks teleport to Kharyll, then head west from Canifis.
	Calquat Tree North of Tai Bwo Wannai	lvl 72	1200 mins	12,096 xp for checking health	Can pay farmer 8 poison berries to have hom look after it for you. It also produces nightshade which can be used in herblore. Its untradeable and can only be obtained if you grow it.
	Evil Turnip Draynor Mansion North of belladona patch	lvl 42	5 mins	46 xp for picking	Just north of Belladona patch.

Quests that provide farming expierence:

• Perils of Ice Mountain (5000 farming xp)
  
• Swept Away (100-9900 farming xp)
  
• Gunnars Ground (200 farming xp)
  
• Myths of White Lands (500 farming xp)
  
• Meeting History ( 500-2500 farming xp)
  
• Saving Goblin Generels (100 farm xp)
  
• Spirit of Summer (200 farming xp)
  
• Darkness of Hallowale (2000-6000 farming xp)
  
• A Fairytale Pt. 2 (2500 xp lamp)
  
• Legacy of Seergaze (2500-7500 farming xp)
  
• A fairytale Pt.3 ( 11000 farming xp)
  
• Back to my Roots ( 24000 farming xp)
  

Scroll of Life

The scroll of life can be purchased from the rewards trader of
Daemonheim with dungeoneering tokens. Once used, the scroll will
disappear, giving you the following permanent effects:

• When harvesting a non-tree farming patch, there is a 10% chance that you
  will regain a number of seeds equal to the number you originally
  planted
  
• When digging up a fruit tree or normal tree patch, there is a 5% chance that you will regain the seed you originally planted
  
• You also gain the chance of regaining seeds once you have finished harvesting a plant
  

The Herblore Habitat

By practising your herblore in the Herblore Habitat, you might be able to make yourself a juju farming potion. This concoction, when drunk, gives you a one in three chance of picking twice the number of herbs whenever you harvest from a herb patch. Each dose lasts for 5 minutes.

Tips and Tricks

• it is recommended to use supercompost for all crops except trees and
  fruit trees. It will increase your harvests and have less chance of your crops and herbs becoming dieseased.
  
• Plan your travel routine to avoid less bank stops. The more efficent your travel routine. the more time you have in-between to do something else.
  
• If you notice that more than one of your herbs have become dieseased on your farm run. Change to a differnet seed. You will get less death.
  
• Always replant your bushes. Check health XP is much better than picking
  XP. But don't dig up bushes unless you're replanting them. Picking XP is
  better than nothing.
  
• Be aware of the farming cycle. Every 5 mins your allotments and herbs "tick" to the next stage. Your trees and fruit trees have a longer cycle. If they become dieseased during this stage and are not treated. They will die on the next "tick".
  
• Wearing Faldaor Shield 2 or falador Shield 3 while harvesting at patches south of falador. you will gain 10% more xp.
  
• If you're fighting monsters that drop grimy herbs or crops and you are
  near a farming spot with a leprechaun, you can note the items to save
  space in your inventory
  

Good Luck and Happy Farming !!

Great guide, gonna have to start putting it to some use. Will be a great help for me as I'm a complete newb when it comes to farming on Rs... Not irl though.. it's my job to grow stuff. lol

I'm putting this Guide to proper use now. I've consulted it about 90 times in the last two days for farming advice. Great Guide.

Thanks for taking the time to do this ^^

Thanks mate, I need 70 soon for my goal, will use this guide