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!
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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
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
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!
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Once planted, potatoes will take a total of 4 Days to fully grow and be harvested.
How to Grow Crops and Vegetables
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?
Potatoes are used as a produce crop to make delicious Food DIY Recipes with.
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!
| # 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 |
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
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?
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
How to Grow Crops and Vegetables
| All Crops and Vegetables Guides | |
|---|---|
 How to Grow Pumpkins |
 How to Grow Sugarcanes |
 How to Grow Potatoes |
 How to Grow Tomatoes |
 How to Grow Carrots |
 How to Grow Wheat |
How to Grow Potatoes
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