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'''Vegetable gardening''' is an [[Knowledge Points|amateur]]-status [[Sage Ability|sage ability]] in the [[Sage Study|study]] of [[Grasses & Grains (sage study)|Grasses & Grains]], encompasses an intensive cultivation approach that demands fertile soil and significant manual effort, essential for combating weed growth and disease while yielding a valuable harvest of vegetables or tubers.
 
'''Vegetable gardening''' is an [[Knowledge Points|amateur]]-status [[Sage Ability|sage ability]] in the [[Sage Study|study]] of [[Grasses & Grains (sage study)|Grasses & Grains]], encompasses an intensive cultivation approach that demands fertile soil and significant manual effort, essential for combating weed growth and disease while yielding a valuable harvest of vegetables or tubers.
  
The minimum size for an effective vegetable patch is 16½ ft. on a side (1 sq. rod), with an area of 272 sq.ft.  This requires 29 hours of labour spread equally over a 90-day season, with attention paid no less often than a span of 6 days.  Popular varieties of crops
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The minimum size for an effective vegetable patch is 16½ ft. on a side (1 sq. rod), with an area of 272 sq.ft.  This requires 29 hours of labour spread equally over a 90-day season, with attention paid no less often than a span of 6 days.  Skipping more days than this results in sufficient damage done by pests and weeds to lower the overall yield by 10%, each time a gap of 7 days or more happens.
  
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Popular varieties of crops include beets, turnips and cabbage — but no carrots, as these hadn't be bred as a vegetable until after the 18th century, despite their presence in the shown image.
  
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== Yields ==
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For a patch equalling a square rod, '''unskilled farmers''' can obtain 250 +20-120 lbs. of food.  If 340 lbs. of vegetables are yielded, however, it demonstrates that the character has learned something about vegetable farming and may add 1 [[Knowledge Points|point of knowledge]] in this ability.
  
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For characters with this skill, the yield or a square yard will be 560 +20-80 lbs.
  
For unskilled persons in the game world's time period, the best yield that can be obtained equals 1.3 lbs. per hour spent, per square foot of ground planted.
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A [[Vegetable Patch|vegetable patch]] will require 115 hours of labour per 90-day season (typically a little more than two hours every other day) for a yield of approximately 115 lbs — therefore, about 1 hour a pound. Work must be done every three days, however. Reduce the total yield by 10% whenever the garden's tending is made to wait more than six days.
 
 
 
Take note that the growth above exceeds what a peasant would produce on the same field, about 2/3rds of a pound per hour of labour.
 

Revision as of 19:33, 5 October 2023

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Vegetable gardening is an amateur-status sage ability in the study of Grasses & Grains, encompasses an intensive cultivation approach that demands fertile soil and significant manual effort, essential for combating weed growth and disease while yielding a valuable harvest of vegetables or tubers.

The minimum size for an effective vegetable patch is 16½ ft. on a side (1 sq. rod), with an area of 272 sq.ft. This requires 29 hours of labour spread equally over a 90-day season, with attention paid no less often than a span of 6 days. Skipping more days than this results in sufficient damage done by pests and weeds to lower the overall yield by 10%, each time a gap of 7 days or more happens.

Popular varieties of crops include beets, turnips and cabbage — but no carrots, as these hadn't be bred as a vegetable until after the 18th century, despite their presence in the shown image.

Yields

For a patch equalling a square rod, unskilled farmers can obtain 250 +20-120 lbs. of food. If 340 lbs. of vegetables are yielded, however, it demonstrates that the character has learned something about vegetable farming and may add 1 point of knowledge in this ability.

For characters with this skill, the yield or a square yard will be 560 +20-80 lbs.