Groves

Lvl 1 Matching Grove

Groves are bought with coins and favors and there is a limit to how many you can buy (45). The groves could earlier be bought with coins and then you had your friends help build them. Finding a neighbor farm with more groves than you can buy today, does not necessarily mean that they are cheating.

Groves use less water and give larger crops. Making matching groves, with one kind of tree, is even better. Heirloom groves produces most, and give large prized fruits for the State/County Fair.

Tips: Put a grove close to the entrance of your farm to optimize the odds of your neighbors clicking on them. Also put a couple of single trees by it. When you see that a neighbor will click on a single tree, you move it into a grove. Water, fertilize and then let the neighbor go to work. The neighbor will then speed grow the whole grove. This does work with water and fertilizer too of course, but speed grow is more valuable than the other two.

Warning!: Elder trees are the worst to have in a grove. They take more water than heirloom trees and does not drop random Pruning Shears as ordinary trees do. The game will warn you about the first elder tree you come across during harvest, and you'll be offered to sell or store it, but there can be more elder trees in your groves. Check the groves regularly and remove them.  Store the elder trees if you have all the Pruning Shears you can hold, and sell them later when you need more.