Running your own tavern in Ale & Tale: Tavern means sourcing all your own crops until you’re able to afford otherwise. This means you’ll need to get comfy with getting your hands dirty and plan ahead to make sure you have enough in your harvest to serve your patrons. Thankfully, we’re here to help you get started.

While the garden isn’t unlocked immediately, a bit of patience is all it takes to start planting and harvesting your crops. You won’t be alone in this endeavor, either, as your agriculturally-inclined companion Scary will help you navigate the ups and downs of farming.

How To Unlock The Garden

As you get into the groove of your tavern routine, you’ll rank up. Once yourank up enough, you’ll start a new quest by talking to the merchant outside the tavern. When you speak to him, he’llsend you to the garden behind the tavernto begin your agricultural journey.

While you can find the garden before this, youcannot clear the debris prior to this questbeing unlocked.

Here, you’llmeet Scary the Scarecrow! He’s an exciting lad who has a penchant for magic weed. He’ll teach youeverything you need to know about gardening, from acquiring seeds to harvesting the final crop.

There are15 plots in the gardenand you’ll need to clear away the debris that’s covering them in order to start your garden. Use your axe to do so, then get ready to plant!

How To Plant Crops

The first thing you’ll need to start gardening is a hoe. You canpurchase one from the merchantfor 200 gold, and it’s a consumable item that willbreak over time. You’ll also need seeds, which you can buy as well.

You can find some wild seeds in the forest or collect them from loot crates.

The type of seeds vary in cost, but you’ll be able topurchase a wider selectionas you rank up. They include the following:

300 Gold

Tavern Rank 15

Each purchasecomes with 15 seeds, allowing you to fill the garden with each crop. Use your hoe totill each space, then select your seeds andinteract with each plotto plant them.

The crops will start to grow immediately, and it willtake a few minutesto grow. When they’re fully matured, you can interact with them to collect the finished crop. You’llgain two crops from each plant, for a total of 30 from 15 seeds.

How To Make Crops Grow Faster

While each crop takes a different amount of time to grow, you canspeed up this processto ensure a quick and easy harvest. You can use your compost bin tocreate compost from garbageleft around your tavern.

For example, five apple cores will make five bags of compost for your crops.

Compost will increase the crop yieldfrom each harvest, granting you more to work with. You can also use thewatering can to speed up the growthprocess. Watering the soil and fertilizing it will optimize your growth time, allowing you toharvest more cropsmore quickly.