Gardens

Getting Started

You will be able to order your Gardening kit from your latest cattlelog. The cost of this kit is currently set at 50 jellybeans and will arrive shortly after ordering. Also, you will notice that the cattlelog contains statues that you may purchase once your gardening skill is higher.

Once the package arrives in your mailbox it will explain a little more about gardening and your tree locations, flower pots, wheelbarrow, and statue base will pop into view.

Now you need to plant some flowers and decide which gag trees you want planted.

If you look at your sticker book you will notice a new page for gardening with a few different sections. On these pages you can tell how many shovel and watering can points you have. A list of flowers that you have picked and if you have any special gardening items.

As you can see this looks alot like the, sorry UBERS, fishing page. It has basically the same layout as the fishing page with the exception of the Specials page.

I will cover the tabs briefly.

The first tab is the Basket tab (pictured above) which allows you to see the flowers in your basket and also has your stats for Shovel and Watering Can points.

The next tab is Album tab and just like in Fishing this shows you all the flowers that you have picked up to that point.

Next is the Trophies tab which contain your gardening trophies you receive when growing 10, 20, 30, and 40 different flowers.

Finally the last tab is the Specials which will show your InstaGrow Fertilizer and statues if purchased.

Planting Flowers

It's time to add some beauty to your toon estate and give your doodles something to eat and/or water!

Step up to YOUR flower box/pot and your will see this appear where the chat/speedchat is.

Just go right ahead and click on the PLANT button and you get after a brief planting animation

Now you can either choose to figure out the beans to plant yourself OR you could go to the Bean Combo's section which lists the combo's out for you. It's your choice! Once you plant something you will get a screen similar to the following.

Uber Toons will be able to beautify their estates also because they can just plant one of each flower over and over again. Since the bean combo's only go to 8 you will never get the 10th flower to get that dreaded extra laff point as long as you only plant one flower of each level.

OK, we got those flowers planted now lets go water each one of them once. Here is a picture of two flowers one watered and the other dry as a bone.

And what happens if your flowers/trees aren't watered? Well does THIS look familar?

Just give it a little water and it will spring back to life.

Finally, if this is after day one of planting don't foget to run around and top off your trees with a little water.

Flowers will grow at Midnight Pacific time NO MATTER WHEN planted. Woo hoo! I verified this by planting 5 minutes before midnight. NOTE: You will have to go back to playground and then back to estate to see the growth cycle!

If you need to remove a flower that you have planted then walk right up to the flower and click...

Planting Trees

Now you need to decide which type/types of trees you want to plant. You have 8 locations to plant trees for your toon and NO you cannot pick from other toons trees. Little toons will more than likely broaden their tree base and then consolidate to one gag as they grow while bigger toons will probably go for one gag at a time.

Remember no matter what you plant you need the lower gag trees planted in order to have your higher gags active, meaning you need to plant your level 1 gag tree first before you can plant your level 2 gag tree.

If you want that extra boost on your FOG you need to have ALL the lower sound gags planted and HEALTHY.

Currently it takes 3 days for a tree to mature and you will start to receive the bonus one day before the tree produces gags.

How do you tell if your bonus is active? That's a very good question and you will notice a change in your gag selection screen. I bet you can see it!

You can look below to see the added damage for the Organic Gag Bonus or you can calculate it yourself. Organic gags give a 10% increase in the gag's strength. Note that anything below 1 such as .3 will be rounded to one but once you are above 1 only round DOWN.

Note: These values are for gags that are maxxed for that level. If your gag isn't maxxed then the value may be a little lower. You can always look at the gag in the gag selection screen and it will list its DAMAGE with the bonus damage in ( ) beside the damage. So a maxxed fog will list Damage: 50 (+5).

• Throw Gags
• Level 1 +1
• Level 2 +1
• Level 3 +1
• Level 4 +2 WILL destroy a lured level 5 with lure bonus
• Level 5 +4
• Level 6 +10 WILL destroy a lured level 11 with lure bonus

• Squirt Gags
• Level 1 +1 bonus
• Level 2 +1 bonus
• Level 3 +1 bonus
• Level 4 +2 bonus
• Level 5 +3 bonus
• Level 6 +8 bonus

• Trap Gags
• Level 1 +1
• Level 2 +2
• Level 3 +3
• Level 4 +5
• Level 5 +7
• Level 6 +18

• Sound Gags
• Level 1 sound +1
• Level 2 sound +1
• Level 3 sound +1
• Level 4 sound +1
• Level 5 sound +2
• Level 6 sound +5

• Drop Gags
• Level 1 +1
• Level 2 +1
• Level 3 +3
• Level 4 +4
• Level 5 +6
• Level 6 +17

• Toon Up Gags
• Level 1 +1
• Level 2 +1
• Level 3 +3
• Level 4 +4
• Level 5 +7
• Level 6 +12

UBERS will be very interested in knowing the following and avoiding the dreaded MISS in Skele round of VP

Planting lure will increase the accuracy of it hitting the cogs.

Ok, now you have your trees planted let's get those things watered. I would advise watering the trees 8 times each as you never know when you're going to miss a day or two of being on TT.

Trees don't wilt they will look like trees you might see around Halloween. Just give them some water and once Midnight Pacific hits they will return to life.

Again trees grow at Midnight Pacific Time but it seems that gags don't sprout until after the time you planted them. I'm still verifying about the gags sprouting!

If you need to remove a tree that you have planted then walk right up to the tree and click... Well, I haven't verified that so you may have to harvest gags first!

Picking your Flowers

My flowers grew now what do I do!? Well walk right up to that flower and you'll see this box appear.

Click 'pick' and you will see something similar to the following...

After picking all the flowers walk up to the wheelbarrow and you'll see this. Again, it looks like fishing...

Shovel Points

You earn a shovel point for picking flowers and increasing your shovel points will allow you to plant flowers using multiple beans. After increasing in points for a bean combination, you will no long be able to earn points for bean combo's lower. This means that if you are able to plant 3 bean combo's you can grow one, two, and three bean flowers but you only EARN points for the three bean combo's.

• Receive Tin shovel in Gardening Kit
• One bean combo 0 - 40 shoveling points
• Two bean combo 41 - 79 shoveling points
• Receive BRONZE shovel
• Three bean combo 80 - 159 shovling points
• Four bean combo 160 - 239 shovling points
• Receive Silver shovel
• Five bean combo 240 - 399 shovling points
• Six bean combo 400 - 559 shovling points
• Receive Gold Shovel
• Seven bean combo 560 - ?? shovling points
• Eight bean combo ?? - ?? shovling points

Remember to check your cattlelog every so often for statues that you may be able to purchase. This usually occurs after a shovel change. Pay close attention to what is said after buying the statue because it is important and it may be missed.

At least that Donald won't bug you or look like he REALLY shouldn't be piloting that boat!

Watering Can points

Each time you water a flower or tree that hasn't been watered fully you will receive a watering point.

• Small Watering can 0 - 99 points Will keep plants watered 1/2 days per water
• Medium Watering can 100 - 199 points Will keep plants watered 3/4 days per water
• Large Watering can 200 - 699 points Will keep plants watered 5/6 days per water
• Huge Watering can 700+ points Will keep plants watered 7/8 days per water

So if you water you plants 8 times with the HUGE watering can they will be healthy for 56 - 64 days. I need to verify this but I am guessing that Trees will be the lower of the days while flowers will be the higher amount.

Yes you CAN water your other toons' flowers/trees! You can even water your friends' when they are at their estate. Notice the change in the box... no pick/plant

Laff Points

You will gain a laff point when you grow 10, 20, 30, and 40 unique flowers. I find it easier to grow the different combo's of flowers the first day of planting and then plant all the same until the next combo is active. Maybe I'm just lazy!

Bean Combo's

This section made possible by many a wonderful toon who have worked very hard in figuring out the higher flowers. Give a special shout out to Andrew, Little Pearl Petalbee, Kings silver, Monkey Bites and many others.

--Coolwinkydoggendoodle 12:37, 16 September 2006 (CDT)