If you don't have that much milk or if you prefer longer-lived plants, Drowsyfern gives the biggest CpS boost. The only maintenance necessary arises from the fact that 3 nearby Doughshrooms may form a Shriekbulb, which in turn will likely make 1 other Shriekbulb next to it. You can uproot these if you like, but leaving them won't cost you more than about 1% of your CpS when using wood chips, and eventually they will die out on their own.

Also rarely, you can get an elderwort. I would recommend harvesting it, and here's why: It takes up a space and won't reproduce with any of the other plants present. This can put your garden past a tipping point, making it lose the potential to reproduce itself and eventually die out, leaving just an elderwort or two. Green rot boosts cookie duration (not effect duration), random drops, and frequency. Tragically short-lived, however. By starting with lots of White Mildew or with only about 4 Brown Mold plants, you can make the White Mildew blooms larger than the Brown Mold blooms (there will be more spaces for white milder to appear and fewer for brown mold on every cycle). However, this tends to gradually even itself out. Duketaters give a vary large boost, but don't expect to have more than about 1/3 of the ones you planted ever to be mature at the same time.

This leaves plenty of room to have a few Keenmoss and/or Wardlichen reproducing independently of the clovers. These usually last for white a while, but may require an occasional replanting. Queenbeets can quadruple your bank about every 3.5 hours (make sure to harvest when frozen to increase your CpS) Bakeberries can triple your bank about every 2 hours, but require a larger multiplier to reach their cap. Harvest them on clay to maximize your CpS. Note that there are certain plants which require more than just 2 adjacent plants (Juicy Queenbeet, Shriekbulb & Everdaisy). If you're trying to grow one of these plants, DO NOT FOLLOW the mutation setups shown above (they won't work very well for you, if at all). For Juicy Queenbeets, plant 4 3x3 rings of Queenbeets in each corner. For Everdaisies, fill the 1st and 5th rows with Tidygrasses and the 3rd row with Elderworts. For Shriekbulbs, see this section for more details. Once this garden is established, one of your plants will "pop" upon its decay about every 2 minutes, giving you either 1 or 5 minutes of whatever your CpS is at the time.

Plants useful for their passive effects:• Don't grow baker's wheat. Chocoroot has the same effect with similar maturation but also also a longer lifespan and a harvest boost

Also be careful that some baker's wheat is always present. If too much cronerice, ordinary clover, or elderwort is getting in the way, you may need to occasionally harvest a few. The need for maintenance (or simple repopulation of baker's wheat) arises very infrequently. Plant brown mold or white mildew. What will happen is you will get fluctuating waves of CpS increase (White Mildew blooms) and CpS decrease (Brown Mold blooms). By planting a single Meddleweed seed (or even just waiting around for one to appear), you can have an entirely self-maintaining garden, with about 10-15 weeds present

You can start with a bunch of Crumbspore, or dive right in and plant what the overall proportions of the garden will eventually be: about 7 Doughshrooms and 9 Crumbspores in random locations. For the second chart, level 6 can be altered to remove its unwanted plots by using the setup for level 7 without the empty top row. However, this uses up one more space in the grid, meaning there is one less space for a new plant to grow. This is optimal if you are not actively managing your Garden to remove unneeded or unwanted plants. Nursetulips are very effective at increasing the effectiveness of other plants. Since they reduce your CpS, Nursetulips should be used in situations where the goal isn't to boost your CpS. (Examples include Wrinklegills, Golden Clovers, Keenmoss, etc.) With a full 6x6 garden, the most effective way of using Nursetulips is to alternate between planting rows of Nursetulips and rows of the other plant. This will have a greater effect than simply planting 36 plants of the desired type, at the cost of slightly lowering your CpS. Sometimes, constantly tending to your garden can be a pain, and you wish you could just leave it to its own devices.The second picture shows examples of optimal alignments for each Garden level for mutations from 2 different parents (example: Cronerice from Baker's Wheat and Thumbcorn). The green and yellow squares (labeled with a "G" and "Y" respectively) indicate the 2 types of planted tiles. The light red squares (labelled with an "R") indicate plots that could grow unwanted crops resulting from the mutation of 2 plants of the same type. For example, growing Baker's Wheat and Gildmillet may spawn unwanted Thumbcorns in the R plots. Interestingly enough, it appears that the Popcorn garden and the BW/TC/CR garden can coexist in a wood chips garden for a while. Grow a popcorn garden and then plant several pairs of baker's wheat, and both sets of plants will continue to grow. Glovemorel can also appear in this hybrid garden. Eventually, the BW/TC/CR garden will die out because the Baker's Wheat and Thumbcorn get boxed in by longer-lived plants (mainly Cronerice and Doughshroom), preventing their continued spread and reproduction.