Crops provide various benefits depending on the species, some granting passive buffs as they sit planted in the Garden, while others give rewards when harvested. The green and yellow squares (labeled with a "G" and "Y" respectively) indicate the 2 types of planted tiles.

Bakeberry is one of the best plants in the game when it comes to getting lots of cookies really quickly. You gain +3% of your regular CpS while the game is closed (provided you have the Twin Gates of Transcendence heavenly upgrade). If you don't mind getting involved a little bit, it's a good idea to turn on Wood Chips during Brown Mold blooms and Clay during White Mildew blooms.Filling up an entire field with bakeberries will give you a base CpS increase of 36% once they all mature.

Additionally, it's important to note that bakeberry harvesting rewards are capped at just 3% of your current cookies, so they should ideally only be harvested when you have loads of cookies saved up to get a bigger reward. 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. The increased Golden Cookie frequency also increases the chance of getting combo effects, which can potentially yield massive amounts of cookies. To top it all off, wrinklers can also help a lot when it comes to lowering seed costs; having 10 of them at once will halve seed costs while also increasing overall cookie yield (see here for more details).

Immediately after changing the soil type, it cannot be changed for the next 10 minutes, unless a sugar lump is spent to reset the timer. once all the plants have matured (or 9% if using clay soil), which is nearly 50% more effective than Breath of Milk and only around 2. 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.

Filling up an entire 6x6 field with Golden Clovers will grant a 108% increase in Golden Cookie frequency when all plants are mature (135% if using clay soil). The Garden has its own equivalent of ascension, which removes all planted crops and seeds except the starter seed of Baker's Wheat, in exchange for 10 sugar lumps.Even better, since milk boosts (like CpS boosts) stack multiplicatively, using the whiskerblooms in combination with the aforementioned effects will lead to an even greater production boost! 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. 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.