Farming

Farming is a time-consuming but useful skill. It takes a while to grow the crops. You start at potatoes, and at the end you can eventually grow the famed Spirit Tree.

DO NOT stand around waiting for your crops to die, either bribe, use the protective flower, or simply plant and leave and hope they don't die.

Some general notes

 * The hardest bit about farming is all the inventory micro-management you have to do. Keep it as simple as possible, and do one type of crop in each type of field and teleport around to each farm (see below)
 * Super compost is great - to make it, use jangerberries (collect from ogre island west of Yanille), or Pineapples (collect from Karamja or buy in Grand Tree) on the compost bins.
 * Method 1: Use normal compost, and bribe the farmer to take care of your crops
 * Method 2: Use super compost and if they're vegetables, make sure you have the protective flower growing. You shouldn't need to bribe then.
 * Trees are superb xp
 * Most vegetables are roughly the same xp, except for the high (rare) ones - strawberry+
 * You seem to get less deaths if your level is higher with herbs.

Tools

 * Rake - for removing weeds
 * Secateurs - for pruning trees
 * Trowel - for putting a tree seed in a plant pot
 * Plant Pots - for planting saplings
 * Seed Dibber - to plant any seed except trees
 * Watering can - to water vegetables and hops
 * Compost - for helping your plants grow
 * Spade - for harvesting
 * Gardening boots - no function

Patches
The only things you need to water are vegetables and hops, everything else it has no effect on.

Seeds, Bribes and Experience
If you choose to pay the farmer, pay them with NOTES and save inventory spots!! Barley malt is made by roasting barley on a range.

Amulet of Nature
The amulet of nature can be bound to a particular patch, you can either rub the amulet to find out how your crops are doing, or wear it and it will tell you of any changes to your crops. To make one, you will need to spin a magic root on a spinning wheel, make a normal emerald amulet using the crafting skill and string it with the magic string. Then use the nature amulet with the patch to watch progress on that patch. You can only obtain one amulet of nature, and they are untradeable, though all the ingredients to make it are tradeable.

Temporary Boosts

 * A cider will boost farming by 1, this is brewed using the Cooking skill.
 * A Mature cider will boost farming by 2, this is brewed using the Cooking skill.
 * A Garden Pie will boost farming by 3, this is made using the Cooking skill.

The Big Farm Run
The hop run Start anywhere! Equipment: Duelling ring with charges OR ring of charos (u), Amulet of glory with charges, Law Tiara, boots of lightness. No armour or weapons so I don't have to change it when going to entrana. You can wear robes of zamorak if you like. Inventory: Dibber, Rake, Spade, Watering Can (keep these 4 next to each other in the bank), Barley seeds1, Noted compost2, 1 supercompost, 4 Laws, 2 earth, 1 fire, 8 air3 Teleport to watchtower, climb under the wall, harvest your crop, compost, plant seeds, water, pay the farmer (From here on I'll call this 'harvest,plant,bribe') Teleport to Camelot, run to seers bank, store your crop and the empty bucket, withdraw 1 supercompost. Run northwest to the hop patch, harvest, plant, bribe. Teleport to Varrock, run to west bank, store your crop and the empty bucket, withdraw 1 supercompost, 1 bush seed and 1 bush bribe. Run south to bush-patch, harvest, plant (no need to compost), bribe, run south to hops patch, harvest, plant, bribe. Glory to Draynor and bank your crops there and any weapons or armour, withdraw 1 supercompost. Run to entrana, harvest, plant and bribe for the hops patch there. Refill your watering can from the sink and glory back to Draynor - hooray, finished the hops run! Store any surplus hop-seeds and hop-bribes back in the bank. The vegetable and herb run is more complex, and requires more inventory micro-management The vegetables run Inventory: Dibber, Rake, Spade, Watering Can, vegetable seeds8, Noted bribes8 (optional), herb seeds, 3 supercompost, 3 sacks9 Start from Draynor, run northwest to farm, harvest, plant, if you're using normal compost or you're growing high-level seeds bribe but don't bother otherwise. Glory to edgeville10, bank your crops and empty buckets, withdraw 3 supercompost, 3 sacks9, and the ectophial. Ectophial to Phantasmys, run to phantasmys farm, harvest, plant, bribe. Run to canifis, bank your crops, empty buckets and the ectophial, withdraw 4 supercompost and 1 mushroom spore, 3 laws, 2 water runes, 3 empty sacks, run west to mushroom patch, harvest and plant (this is the tightest inventory management bit - you may want to take 4 sacks, just in case you get a bumper crop). Teleport to Ardougne, run north to farm, harvest, plant, bribe. Teleport to camelot and bank and refill your watering can at the fountain right there, and bank at Catherby bank. Bank your crops, and withdraw 3 supercompost and 3 sacks. Run to catherby farming spot, harvest plant bribe, refill your watering can at the nearby sink and bank. Hooray! Finished the vegetables run. Now, either jump ahead to the supercompost run, or if you have tree seeds or trees that need checking, read on! The fruit-tree run Inventory: Dibber, Rake, Spade, Watering Can, 2 Laws, 2 water, amulet of glory with 2 or more charges, 4 fruit tree seeds, 4 plant pots, trowel, bribes for the trees, 1 cactus seed, 1 supercompost, woodcutting axe and a bit of cash or ring of charos (u) Assuming you're in catherby, buy plant pots if necessary and plant the saplings in them and don't forget to water! If you don't have enough bribes, you could either try supercomposting, or you stop off in grand tree in a moment, where a lot of bribes can be bought. Run to catherby fruit tree, harvest, cut it down, plant, bribe, teleport to ardougne. Run to Brimhaven fruit tree, harvest, cut it down, plant, bribe, glory to al-kharid. Sort the cactus out and gnome glider to grand tree. Use this opportunity to stock up on any bribes you need from Hudo (pineapples, oranges, etc), then do the fruit tree outside grand tree. Use the spirit tree to teleport to battlefield of Khazard. Run southwest and do the tree just outside the Tree-gnome village, glory to Edgeville or Draynor. Finished the fruit-tree run, yay! The wood-tree run Inventory: Dibber, Rake, Spade, Watering Can, 2 Laws, 1 water, 1 fire, 3 airs, amulet of glory with 2 or more charges, games necklace, 4 wood tree seeds, 4 plant pots, trowel, bribes for the trees, woodcutting axe. Assuming you're in catherby or draynor, buy plant pots if necessary and plant the saplings in them and don't forget to water! If you don't have enough bribes, you could either try supercomposting, but I'd recommend you bribe with trees - the xp is too good to lose Teleport to varrock, run north into castle and sort the tree out there, games necklace to burthorpe Run south-east to Taverley and do the tree there, teleport to falador. Run into the park and do the tree there, glory to draynor Run west to the lumbridge tree, and glory back to draynor The supercompost run There are 2 easy options for supercompost ingredients - pineapples near brimhaven (south of the dock), and jangerberries on ogre island west of yanille (need a rope). First, go to catherby and load up the leprechaun with empty buckets (you can buy 100 in phantasmys). I start the run in draynor so I finish at catherby again so I can unload the buckets of compost from the leprechaun at the end. Inventory: Amulet of glory with charges (worn), 15 supercompost ingredients - if you're using edible things like berries, be very careful not to eat them, or you'll have to make extra trips, the rest empty buckets. Run to falador farm, empty compost bin (use leprechaun for spare buckets and storing supercompost), store ingredients in bin, glory to edgeville10, withdraw ectophial, 15 supercompost ingredients, the rest empty buckets Ectophial to phantasmys, run to phantasmys farm, empty compost bin, store ingredients in bin, glory to edgeville10, store compost, withdraw 15 supercompost ingredients, 3 laws, 2 waters, 5 airs, the rest empty buckets. Teleport to ardougne, run to farm, empty compost bin, store ingredients Teleport to camelot, run to catherby bank, withdraw 15 empty buckets, the rest supercompost ingredients, run to farm, empty compost bin, store ingredients, run to bank and store compost, withdraw ingredients and store in bin. Use this as an opportunity to restock with empty baskets, empty sacks, supercompost (from the leprechaun), and anything else you might need from the farm shop. 1 - Or any other type of hop seeds 2 - Or other noted bribe, barley = 3 compost, hammerstone = 1 marigold, asgarnian = 1 onions, jute = 6 roasted barley, yanillian = 1 tomatoes, krandorian = 3 cabbages, wildblood = 1 nasturnium. Withdraw enough to bribe 4 times. 3 - You can carry more runes if you like, these are just the minimum 4 - If you have a tree seed and a plant pot, withdraw them now, plus a woodcutting axe. 5 - If you are planting a tree in varrock castle, do this now. 6 - redberry = 4 cabbages, cadava = 3 tomatoes, dwell = 3 strawberries, janger = 6 watermelons, white = 8 mushrooms, ivy = 15 coconuts. In general, I rarely get deaths when not bribing with bushes, so you can supercompost and go if you like instead. 7 - and optionally your law-crafting kit 8 - Noted bribes needed: potato = 2 compost, onions = 1 potatos, cabbages = 1 onions, tomatoes = 2 cabbages, sweetcorn = 10 jute, strawberry = 1 apples, watermelon = 10 curry leaves. Withdraw enough to bribe 4 times. If you have a grown protective flower of the correct type, don't bother bribing. 9 - Potatos, Onions, Cabbages go in sacks; Tomatoes and Strawberries go in baskets. Sweetcorn and watermelons do not have a container - if so, an additional bank teleport is strongly recommended instead, or just drop them if you like. 10 - This is just a quick-bank, use a ring of duelling to castle wars instead if you like. Congratulations if you did them all! It takes about an hour or so to get round all the patches.