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How to Grow Potatoes

Animal Crossing New Horizons (ACNH) - Potatoes

Ready to pot-ate-all your crops in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) for the Nintendo Switch? With our potato guide, you'll learn all about everything potato!

Read on for information on where to buy potato starts, how to harvest potatoes, how to use potatoes for Food Recipe DIYs and more!

How to Get Potatoes

From Leif

ACNH - Buy Potato Crops from Leif

You can buy Potato Starts from Leif all year round for the price of 280 Bells! Catch the sloth at the plaza in front of Resident Services or at Harv's Plaza!

How to Unlock Leif's Garden Shop

From Kapp'n's Boat Tours

ACNH - Riding Kapp

Produce crops can also be found while exploring mysterious islands that you come across in Kapp'n's Boat Tours! For a price of 1,000 Nook Miles, Kapp'n can take you to islands that you've never seen before.

How to Find Kapp'n and Ride the Boat Tours

How to Grow Potatoes

ACNH - A resident tries to plant a potato in the ground

Grow your potatoes by selecting potato starts in your inventory and choosing to “Plant 1”.

You can also choose to dig a hole in the ground with your shovel and bury a potato!

Potato Growth Progress

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4
ACNH - Potato Growth Day 1 ACNH - Potato Growth Day 2 ACNH - Potato Growth Day 3 ACNH - Potato Growth Day 4

Once planted, potatoes will take a total of 4 Days to fully grow and be harvested.

How to Grow Crops and Vegetables

Water Daily to Produce More Crops!

ACNH - Potato Day 4

Tending your crops daily with a watering can will give you more crops when it comes to harvesting! Although your crops will still grow regardless, why say no to a few hundred (or more!) Bells?

How to Get Bells Fast

How to Use Potatoes

Use for Food Recipe DIYs

ACNH - Food DIY Recipes

Potatoes are used as a produce crop to make delicious Food DIY Recipes with.

How to Cook Food

Sell at Nook's Cranny

ACNH - Tommy offering 350 Bells for a potato

Potatoes actually sell for more than their starts cost at 350 Bells a piece. Check how much you can earn from harvesting Potatoes with our profit calculation below!

Potato Harvest Profit Calculations

# of Starts Cost of Starts Harvested, Watered Once Harvested, Watered Twice Harvested, Watered Thrice
1 280 350 700 1,050
5 1,400 1,750 3,500 5,250
10 2,800 3,500 7,000 10,500
20 5,600 7,000 14,000 21,000

Use as Decorations

ACNH - Potatoes

You can place Potatoes to decorate on your island! However, leaving too many of the on the ground could lower your island rating.

You can place them on top of furniture, such as tables and shelves to avoid this!

How to Raise Your Island Star Rating

Eat for Stamina Points

ACNH - Potato Guide - Stamina Gauge

Eating potatoes, much like you can with fruits, turnips, mushrooms, and bamboo shoots, can get you up to 10 points of stamina that allows you to things you cannot normally do in the game.

What Happens When You Eat Fruit?

What are Potatoes?

ACNH - Potato Day 1

Potatoes can be bought at Leif's Garden Shop for 280 Bells or found in mysterious islands during Kapp'n's boat tours. When harvested, Potatoes can be sold for 350 Bells.

Potato Harvest Profit Calculations

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