# Field Care: tend your soil, grow Fine and Choice crops

**URL:** https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/field-care-tend-your-soil-grow-fine-and-choice-crops/1690
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**Created:** [October 17, 2026, 1:24pm UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/field-care-tend-your-soil-grow-fine-and-choice-crops/1690 "2026-10-17T13:24:42Z")
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![Field Care](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/uploads/default/original/2X/b/b87b7c0307afbb0c34d5857119b19bd565218d1b.jpeg)

Every field now remembers how it was looked after. While a crop grows, you can water it, feed it, test it and mulch it, and how well its soil was kept over the growing week decides the harvest: more of the crop, a **Fine** or **Choice** grade, and seed back to plant again.

Our new **Field Care 101** video walks through it end to end:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/duIX7b3jYH8/maxresdefault.jpg "Second Life Farming: Soil Care for Fine & Choice Crops — Field Care 101 | SL Colonies Roleplay") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duIX7b3jYH8)

## How it works

**Touch a growing field** and you’ll find a small care menu. Anyone the field’s security lets work it can use it, and it works on vineyards, fields, vegetable fields, wet fields and herb plots.

| Action | You need | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Water** | water and a worn clay jar | tops the soil’s moisture up (it never adds more than the field holds) |
| **Amend** | a fertiliser and a worn large bag | moves the pH: **garden lime** raises it, **sulphur mulch** lowers it, the _fine_ kinds move it gently |
| **Test** | a worn soil kit | gives the exact pH and moisture, what the crop wants, and how the week is going |
| **Mulch** | reed and a worn small basket | halves the drying for two days |
| **Assay** | a vine assay kit (vineyards) | reveals one of the vine’s hidden genes, recorded in your Journal |

- **One of each action a day.** Care is a few visits a week, not a chore list.
- **Each action costs a little energy.**
- **Nothing dies.** A field you never touch grows exactly as it always has. Care only ever adds.

## Reading your soil

The field’s hover text tells you how it feels: **Thriving** , **Thirsty** , **Sour soil** , **Chalky soil** , **Waterlogged**. A soil kit gives the exact numbers, and what the crop wants is something you find out by testing.

**Every crop has its own wants.** Grapes want pH 5.8–6.8 and moisture 35–85. A vineyard’s soil sits a little sour, so it’s a little lime that gets grapes into the band, not more water. Some crops want it drier; overwatering them leaves the field waterlogged, and that costs you.

**Timing is the skill.** Watering always fills to the same level, so you choose _when_ to water, not how much. Water when the soil runs low, and mulch when it’s already where you want it.

## What care pays

How long your field spends with its pH and moisture in the crop’s band over the growing week gives a care score, and the score decides the harvest:

- **Fine:** more crop, and seed back for certain, enough to replant.
- **Choice:** more again, and on a vineyard a **cutting** of the vine, for the Grafting Table.

Fine and Choice crops cook and brew into Fine and Choice dishes and drinks, which restore more when you eat or drink them.

**Fields also remember what grew last.** Rotating crops earns care points: a different crop family than last time helps, and a cereal after soybeans gets a nitrogen boost.

## Your Journal

Everything your character learns is kept in your **Journal** on the website, at **[Your journal — SL Colonies Roleplay](http://slcoloniesroleplay.com/profile/journal)**:

- **Crops:** each crop you’ve tested, what it wants and what you’ve seen.
- **Vines:** every gene your assays have revealed.

Each field you care for also has its own page, with its soil, its care log and its week.

## Where things come from

- **Soil kits** and **vine assay kits** are sold by the Masters.
- **Garden lime** is made in the **Compost Bin** , from dung and chalk from the **Chalk Pit**.
- **Water** comes from your clay jar, and **reed** from gathering.

Make sure your fields have the latest scripts from the updater. Next up: the **Grafting Table** , where your vineyard’s cuttings become new grape varieties of your own. A video for that is on its way.

Happy farming!