Stardew Valley: Best Crops To Grow On Ginger Island

Summary

• Make the most out of Ginger Island's additional farm with continuously growing crops like Pineapples and Starfruits for high profits.
• Pair Fairy Roses with Bee Houses for valuable Fairy Rose Honey, or focus on regrowing plants like Cranberries for great Wine production.
• For the ultimate profit, plant Ancient Fruit on Ginger Island for a consistent, valuable crop worth processing into Wine to increase it's already high sale price.

When it comes to making a solid profit in Stardew Valley, no place is better than Ginger Island. This tropical island works just like the Greenhouse; any crop can grow here all year round, no matter what season you might be in.

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Because of that, even players who are well into the end-game can revise their strategy to get the most out of the best crops in the game. Keep in mind that processing crops into fine artisan goods effectively raises their value by a value that isn't to be scoffed at.

Updated April 19, 2024 by Gabrielle Castania: Now that we've had some time to explore all the new additions from the 1.6 update, we're updating plenty of our Stardew Valley content to bring it in line with our current publishing standards. Our list of the best Ginger Island crops to grow on the Island Farm now contains even more info and helpful hyperlinks that before. Happy growing!

All values listed in the tables included in our list of the best Ginger Island crops are without professions taken into consideration. If you've chosen a profession that changes the sale price of some of your goods, your mileage may vary with the numbers we've included below.

8 Pineapple

Info

Seed Price

1 Magma Cap

Location

The Island Trader

Sale Prices

300g-600g

Best Use

Wine

Pineapples are a late addition to Stardew Valley, and they are quite valuable. It turns out that they make more money in the long run when compared to unprocessed Starfruit simply because they continuously grow. Just plant them once, make sure to water them every day, and then profit.

They're a bit tough to find, however, which is why we placed them this low on the list of the best Ginger Island crops - the Island Trader sells them in exchange for Magma Caps from the Volcano Dungeon, a pricey investment for just one plant.

Buy one Pineapple Seeds, grow it, and turn the crop into seeds using a Seed Maker to quickly double your crop after each harvest.

7 Hops

Info

Seed Price

Pierre's: 60g

JojaMart: 75g

Location

Pierre's Shop or JojaMart

Sale Prices

25g-50g

Best Use

Pale Ale

Admittedly, Hops are good only if you process them in a Keg to make Pale Ale. Theoretically, Hops have some of the most efficient money return per seed bought in the entire game - if you were to fill the entirety of Ginger Island with Hops and Kegs to process your Island Farm Hops, you would make 360,000 gold per day. However, there's a huge catch that might make you reconsider.

First and foremost, Hops grow on trellises, so you have to get a little creative with how you plant them. Otherwise, the harvest is going to be a disaster. Secondly, Hops regrow and processes into ale very quickly. In order to make 360,000 every day, you'd have to devote all your time to picking hops and putting them in kegs. Of course, if you have the patience, it's worth its weight in gold.

6 Starfruit

Info

Seed Price

200g

Location

The Oasis

Sale Prices

750g-1,500g

Best Use

Wine

Seasoned Stardew Valley players already know that Starfruit is among the very best Summer crops to grow, with Starfruit Wine aged in your Pelican Town farmhouse's basement casks selling for quite a high price. Naturally, Starfruit can grow without limits on Ginger Island, so as long as you can process bulk quantities of it, you should be good to go.

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Since this crop doesn't continuously grow, you will have to replant it after every time you harvest it, which is a bit frustrating given some of the other crops on our list. Luckily, Starfruit takes 13 days to grow without fertilizer, so you won't be making frequent trips to Ginger Island to tend to it if you've got Sprinklers in action.

5 Fairy Rose

Info

Seed Price

Pierre's: 200g

JojaMart: 250g

Location

Pierre's Shop or JojaMart

Sale Prices

290g-580g

Best Use

Honey

This might come as a surprise, but Fairy Roses are incredibly valuable. They don't sell for exorbitant amounts, but when fully grown in proximity to Bee House, they produce Fairy Rose Honey. This particular type is the most valuable Honey in the entire game, since it sells for 680 gold even without the Artisan profession, which boosts its value to a whopping 952 gold.

A Bee House has to stay within a five-tile range from a Fairy Rose otherwise, it'll just make Wild Honey, which isn't particularly valuable.

You can place quite a few beehives around a single Fairy Rose, wait about four days, and then come back to collect tons of precious honey. The only challenging factor with this strategy is having enough Bee House , so the more at your disposal, the better.

4 Cranberries

Info

Seed Price

Pierre's: 240g

JojaMart: 300g

Location

Pierre's Shop or JojaMart

Sale Prices

75g-150g

Best Use

Wine

By the time Fall rolls around, you're likely no stranger to the multi-harvest berry plants in Stardew Valley, but Cranberries may be the most valuable of them all. Each plant drops multiple berries when harvested, usually between one and three berries depending on the perks of your chosen professions.

With berries making for such good Wine fruits, use your lowest-quality Cranberries for wine and sell the gold, silver, or iridium-quality produce as-is to take advantage of the higher prices.

3 Any Fruit Tree

Info

Seed Price

Pierre's: 2,000g-6,000g

Island Trader: 5 Dragon Tooth (Banana), 75 Mussels (Mango)

Location

Pierre's Shop, The Island Trader

Sale Prices

Varied

Best Use

Gifting

Depending on the type of fruit tree you plant and when you plant it, your trees can produce quite a lot of fruit during a given season, but with them requiring a full season to grow before producing one fruit per day, it takes quite a lot of planning to make them advantageous on the Pelican Town farm.

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Instead, plant them someplace where they won't be subjected to any seasonal weather changes! Fruit trees, once they reach maturity, bear one piece of fruit per day when planted on Ginger Island, able to accumulate up to three before they stop growing back in between harvests.

To save time, visit your Ginger Island crops every three days to shake the fruit trees - they can't hold more than three at a time.

2 Sweet Gem Berry

Info

Seed Price

1,000g

Location

The Traveling Cart

Sale Prices

3,000g-6,000g

Best Use

Selling As-Is

Sweet Gem Berries grow from the Rare Seed you'll occasionally see for sale at the Traveling Merchant. While a Sweet Gem Berry can't be processed into any of the various artisan goods, the raw fruit sells for a pretty staggering base price.

It takes a full 24 days for a Rare Seed to grow into a Sweet Gem Berry, and given that they normally only grow during the Fall, it can be a hassle to plan your planting. Rather than timing your harvest, simply plant Rare Seeds on Ginger Island.

Just don't forget to give one to Old Master Cannoli, though - he gives you a Stardrop for it!

1 Ancient Fruit

Info

Seed Price

N/A

Location

The Museum

Sale Prices

550g-1,000g

Best Use

Wine

The Ancient Fruit is the overall best crop in the game, no matter where you plant it. It is not the most valuable one in terms of the selling price per single unit, but it does have a few key characteristics that make it the perfect Ginger Island crops. Namely, it continually grows just like other berry plants, and it can be processed in Kegs to make Ancient Fruit Wine.

Overall, if you can plant an Ancient Fruit seed in every tillable tile available on the Ginger Island Farm, you'll walk away with hundreds of precious fruit to process in kegs. It's best to use all your Ancient Fruit as Wine, as it's the quickest and easiest way to make a good amount of gold with each harvest.

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