How to Grow Summer Squash in Stardew Valley (1.6 Update)

Summer Squash is the beauty of any summer crop, and you should add it to your patch as soon as possible. Here’s how to get Summer Squash in Stardew Valley.

How to Find and Grow Summer Squash in Stardew Valley

She’s curvaceous, gold, and she just keeps on giving. The vegetable of the summer is naturally the summer squash, but you can’t find summer squash in any old general store. To find summer squash seeds, you’ll need to find it in the wild.

In Stardew Valley, you can find summer squash by digging up artifact or worm sites during the summer, or close to summer. Though you can find summer squash seeds in spring (which is when I found my first few pouches of seeds), they become much more common in Artifact Spots during the summer. Artifact spots are made distinct by the wriggling-looking worms that define them. You can only find artifact spots on tillable land, deserts, or beaches. They’re also particularly common when it rains.

You can also get summer squash seeds in crates and barrels deep in the mine. And finally, you can find summer squash seeds as a reward from Mayor Lewise Prize Box.

So, to sum up, look at the following locations for summer squash seeds in Stardew Valley:

• Artifact / Worm site
• Boxes and crates in mines
• As a reward from Mayor Lewis’ Prize Box

Once you have seeds, you’ll only be able to grow summer squash in summer. In the autumn the plants will wilt. It will take six days for summer squash to grow, at which point the vine stays, and you can harvest one summer squash per plant every three days. That means that if you plant a summer squash on the first day of summer, you can get six harvests per summer, meaning you’ll get 294 gold per plant by the end of the season. A basic summer squash can be sold for 45 gold.

That means that summer squash is more profitable than blueberries! And summer squash is essentially free since it can’t be purchased. This is also the case for carrot seeds, which are the springtime equivalent.