any recommendations on how to lay out your crops when you're still pretty early on?

[feral meteor]

So I just had what I consider my first full crop season. Got the two rank to E, near the end if my first summer.

Going into Sunmer I had some cash finally and 2 decent scarecrows I bought from Ben so I wanted to make it a really hot crop summer. I completely filled the area of one scarecrow, half of it with peppers and the rest with other crops I rotated through the season. Worked pretty well.

But one thing I learned is that the 3d style makes it kind of a pain when you have a ton of crops like that; it's really hard to tell if you missed a spot watering or something.

Did I just got too hard? Maybe 120 was just too much to water by hand? I only have access to 3 sprinklers currently and I'm not raking in enough silver kelp to make more yet. Part of my is also wondering if there's just a smarter way to arrange my crops so I don't have them all bunched up like that. If there's any tips or recommendations you have, I'm happy to hear them!

[warped cosmos]

It really depends on you. Some people like to do groups of 9 so there's space in between the crops.

I find if I water from bottom to the top of my screen, it's easier to see if I missed a spot.

I think a lot of people just don't go all out until they have sprinklers because it can be such a pain.

[gloomy patio]

With an 11x11 scarecrow you can fit a 5x5 planting square four times with a freespace cross at the vertical and horizontal of the scarecrow. This also fits well with leaving the center of the 5x5 open for sprinklers (either t1 that waters the immediate 8 so only watering the outer 16 ; or tier2 that waters all 24 crops in the square).

In dividing the 24 you could do 8 Inner Crop A - 16 Outer Crop B / 12 Crop A - 12 Crop B / 10 Crop A - 4 Crop B - 10 Crop C / 5 Crop A - 5 Crop B - 4 Crop C - 5 Crop D - 5 Crop E.