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Seeds from feeding piggies.

Getting seeds for a vegetable by feeding that vegetable to piggies is *a lot* of work. 
I think the seed dividends should be large for the amount of produce.

As it currently stands if I grow spinach or onions or tomatoes I get 6 when they grow. 3 of them go to feeding the piggie to get the seed back out of them to reseed. So I only 'make' 3 spinach. 

Has anyone tried gardening a lot this way? It's so much work for so little produce. 

Especially when seeds are so expensive.. It seems that that's a motivation to do it via piggies.. but then you realize that's a bust too. 

Posted 18 months ago by Gabriel Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • When you get to higher skill levels, the output per plant gets much larger.
    Posted 18 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have all the gardening skills and I usually get at least 12 of anything I grow. The only thing that makes the piggy plop a lot of work is the fact that you can't select 3 from the menu, if you could do that, it would not be so bad.
    Posted 18 months ago by FrankenPaula Subscriber! | Permalink
  • We have asked lots of times for "3" always to be an option to feed vegetables to pigs.  Having to feed one at a time or overfeed is such a pain!!! (Especially if the lowest option is 10!!!)

    Please, pretty please, may we always have a "3" option?
    Posted 18 months ago by Cassandria Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Cassandria, I just drop a lot of the crop on the ground so that I only keep about 20. Then the lowest option is 3 :) Of course I would advise against this in community gardens and strongly agree with you that there should always be the choice to feed 3. Or better, manual entry of the amount you want to feed.
    Posted 18 months ago by Victoria Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 to manual entry
    Posted 18 months ago by Fokian Fool Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 to 3 as an option and +100 to manual entry...for everything!
    Posted 18 months ago by RM Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ++1 to manual entry!
    Posted 18 months ago by The Cat Face Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +++1 to 3 as an option. I've asked so many times
    Posted 18 months ago by Twoodle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1000 to manual entry. I'm a self professed obsessive gardener, so I'm just a teeny bit obsessed with keeping my garden patches full. Though I have a separate bag to put piggy feed, so I drop the main bag when I'm going a-feeding.
    Posted 18 months ago by KitkatCat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love the 3 and the manual entry.  +1 to both!
    Posted 17 months ago by WhizGidget Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 to a manual entry option! The fixed options are very convenient most of the time, so I would hate to see them go, but perhaps we could click a button for setting a manual value. This would be helpful in other areas, too, such as when crushing ore—if I have 1000 dullite rocks, I can't easily crush more than 30 but less than 1000.
    Posted 17 months ago by scottj Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1,506 to manual entry.
    Posted 17 months ago by Mac Rapalicious Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1506 + 1 to manual entry.
    Posted 17 months ago by Nanookie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 for the manual entry option. Also I find the lack of manual entry annoying for giving things to people. If I'm working at a project & someone says "anybody got any cherries?"... I'm probably carrying 500 or so... don't want to give them all away but giving 30 seems a bit pointless.
    Posted 17 months ago by Snazzlefrazz Subscriber! | Permalink