ACNH - Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch)

How to Grow Tomatoes

Animal Crossing New Horizons (ACNH) - Tomatoes

Blush as red as a tomato in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) for the Nintendo Switch! With our tomato guide, you'll learn all about everything tomato!

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

How to Get Tomatoes

From Leif's Garden Shop

ACNH - Buy Tomato Crops from Leif

You can buy Tomato 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 Tomatoes

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

Grow your tomatos by selecting tomato 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 tomato!

Tomato Growth Progress

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

How to Grow Crops

Water Daily to Produce More Crops!

ACNH - Tomato Day 3

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 Tomatoes

Use for Food Recipe DIYs

ACNH - Food DIY Recipes

Tomatoes 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 tomato

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

Tomato 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 - Tomatoes

You can place Tomatoes 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 - Tomato Guide - Stamina Gauge

Eating tomatoes, 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 Tomatoes?

ACNH - Tomato Day 4

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

Tomato Harvest Profit Calculations

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