Buy 24 potato seeds (96gp), 4 marigolds (66gp), and 10 compost (970gp).  Buy any utensils you will need form the farmer.

Remove weeds from any farming plot and place in the compost bin.  That is 12 weeds for 156 xp.  Use the compost on all 4 plots and plant your potatoes and marigold for another 42xp.  You will have made it up to level 3 at this point.  Pay the farmer to look over your potatoes.  It costs less than 200gp (compost) and the xp is well worth it.

Now the challenge is to set a goal.  Do you want money?  XP? Herbs for herblore?  A good starting goal is 35 farming.  At that level you can plant ranarr with relatively little chance of them becoming diseased and reap some huge profits.

The easiest route to 35 farming?

Plant at least 2 areas at a time for faster farming xp.  It is passive training, so the most time is spent in preparation, and preparation for 2 areas is nearly the same as for a single one.  Explorers ring for the Fally area and cammy tele for the catherby plot is an easy route for 2 areas.

What to plant

After harvesting your first crop, add another 3 potatoes to the compost bin and make compost.  You should be making this every round for later use as payments, for your crops, or just to sell.  You will now be at level 5.  Plant two more areas with potatoes, and 2 marigolds.  These are in demand for summoning, so it is better to pick them and plant again than to use them to protect your allotments.  (Marigolds sell for almost 3k, payments only cost 180gp).

After harvesting your potatoes and marigolds again, you will be at level 10.  Now it gets interesting.  Guy some guam seeds.  They are cheap enough that you can let them die at a higher rate.  All crops tend to get diseased and die a lot more until you are at least 3 levels above the min to farm them.

At this point if you have the ectophial, you can start farming all 4 areas.  Ecto to the port P, Cabbage tele to Fally, Cammy to Catherby and then run to the Ardo plot.

One trip to the 4 areas planting cabbage, marigold, and guam will net about 2,400xp, do that twice and you will be up to level 22.

Now you can plant sweet corn, a very profitable farming product.  Seeds cost 455 (1365 an allotment), and the produce sells well for a profit.  Make yourself some scare crows and you are good to go.  Plant whatever herb seeds you can.  Real money doesn’t come from those until you are level 29 and can do Harras without a reasonable chance they will die.

One more trip planting that will get you to 25.  Repeat again twice and you are to level 30, and can start doing fruit trees.  Start those at 27 if you pay for the gardener to watch them though.  3 more farming rounds or 8 apple trees   will be at 35, and ready for some serious cash making opportunity.

Thoughts on farming

Super compost costs 500gp, Ingredients can be had in bulk from the GE for 100gp eacy, and no requirements to make it.  Make it every round, if you don’t, then make normal compost every round.  Running out of buckets?  The RFD chest stocks them and Catherby has them in unlimited supply.  At a free 135 xp per area, that adds up fast, not to mention the higher yields it gives you for allotments and herbs.

Ask away if you have any questions, or pm me in game and I will give y ou the tour. – kamakiri88