How To Start A Garden In Minecraft

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There are various plants that you can grow in Minecraft for use as food, brewing, decoration and dyes. This wikiHow teaches you how to plant various plants and crops in Minecraft.

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Obtain carrots or potatoes. Carrots and potatoes can be found in village gardens. When the carrots and potatoes are fully grown, click on them or press the right trigger button on the controller to break them with your hand or a sword. Each block with carrots produces multiple carrots. Walk over them to collect them.^[1]
- You can also find carrots by killing zombies or in shipwreck supply chests, and pillager outpost chests.
- Don't eat them! You won't be able to grow what your character has consumed already.
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Craft a hoe. You can craft a hoe using a crafting table. Have to sticks and two blocks or bars of the material of your choice, and select them, or place them in the crafting grid in the following positions:
- Place a stick in the middle space, and the bottom middle space. Sticks can be crafted from wood plank blocks, which can be crafted from wood.
- Place a wood plank block, stone block, iron bar, or diamond in the upper-middle space, and the upper-left space.
- Click and drag the hoe to your inventory.
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Till the soil. Equip the hoe and use it on dirt or grass to till the soil.
- To equip the hoe, open your inventory and place it in your toolbar. Press the number that corresponds to the toolbar space on your keyboard, or press the right and left shoulder buttons on the controller to highlight the different toolbar spaces. Place the reticle on a grass or dirt block and right-click, or press the left trigger button on the controller to till the soil.
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Plant the carrots in the tilled soil. To plant the carrots, place them in your toolbar and highlight them to equip them. Then place the reticle on a tilled soil block and right-click or press the left trigger button to plant the carrots. Each carrot you plant will produce multiple carrots.
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Wait. Carrots are ready to be harvested when you can see the orange portion poking out of the ground. The potatoes are ready to be harvested when you can see their distinct brown color.
- Make sure that you've placed the farmland near a water source, as this will make the plants grow faster.
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Obtain melons or pumpkin seeds. Melons can be found in jungles biomes, and savanna villages.^[2] Pumpkins can be found in any biome that has grass block with no plants growing out of it. You can also find melons and pumpkins in stem farm rooms of woodland mansions.^[3] To obtain melon or pumpkin seeds, break the melons or pumpkins open using your hand or a sword and walk over the seeds to collect them.
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Craft a hoe. You can craft a hoe using a crafting table. Have to sticks and two blocks or bars of the material of your choice, and select them, or place them in the crafting grid in the following positions:
- Place a stick in the middle space, and the bottom middle space. Sticks can be crafted from wood plank blocks, which can be crafted from wood.
- Place a wood plank block, stone block, iron bar, or diamond in the upper-middle space, and the upper-left space.
- Click and drag the hoe to your inventory.
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Till the soil. Equip the hoe and use it on dirt or grass to till the soil.
- To equip the hoe, open your inventory and place it in your tool bar. Press the number that corresponds to the toolbar space on your keyboard, or press the right and left shoulder buttons on the controller to highlight the different toolbar spaces. Place the reticle on a grass or dirt block and right-click, or press the left trigger button on the controller to till the soil.
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Plant the melons or pumpkins. Equip the melon or pumpkin seeds by opening your inventory and placing them in your toolbar. Highlight the space in your toolbar to equip the seeds. Then place the reticle on a tilled soil block and right-click or press the left trigger button on the controller to plant the seeds.
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Wait. The melons or pumpkins are ready to be harvested when there is a melon or pumpkin block next to the plant.

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Break tall grass. You can break tall grass using your hand, or a sword. Some tall grass will produce seeds when broken. To break the grass, click on it, or press the right trigger button on the controller.
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Collect the seeds. When you see seeds drop, collect them by walking over them. This will automatically add them to your inventory.
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Craft a hoe. You can craft a hoe using a crafting table. Have two sticks and two blocks or bars of the material of your choice, and select them, or place them in the crafting grid in the following positions:
- Place a stick in the middle space, and the bottom middle space. Sticks can be crafted from wood plank blocks, which can be crafted from wood.
- Place a wood plank block, stone block, iron bar, or diamond in the upper-middle space, and the upper-left space.
- Click and drag the hoe to your inventory.
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Till the soil. Equip the hoe and use it on dirt or grass to till the soil.
- To equip the hoe, open your inventory and place it in your toolbar. Press the number that corresponds to the toolbar space on your keyboard, or press the right and left shoulder buttons on the controller to highlight the different toolbar spaces. Place the reticle on a grass or dirt block and right-click, or press the left trigger button on the controller to till the soil.
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Plant the seeds. To plant the seeds, equip them by placing them in your toolbar and highlighting the toolbar space. Then place the reticle on tilled soil blocks and right-click or press the left trigger button on the controller to plant the seeds.
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Wait for a while. The seeds will grow into wheat plants. These can be harvested when they turn yellow. Left-click to harvest.
- Make sure that you've placed the farmland near a water source, as this will make the plants grow faster.
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Plant saplings. Saplings can be obtained by breaking leaves of trees. Plant them in dirt or grass blocks.
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Plant sugar cane. Sugar cane can be found in the wild, next to rivers. They can be planted next to water.
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Plant cocoa pods. Cocoa pods can be found on jungle trees. They can be planted on jungle wood.
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Plant vines: Vines can be found on jungle trees. They can be planted anywhere. Harvest with shears.
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Plant cactus. Cactus can be found in deserts. They can be planted in sand blocks. Harvest with caution––ouch!
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Plant Mushrooms: Mushrooms can be found in swamps, giant taga trees, and in dark places, such as caves. They can be planted in dark areas below light level 13. If planted on mycelium or podzol blocks, they can grow at any light level.
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Plant nether wart. Nether ward can be Found in nether fortresses. They can be planted on soul sand.
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Plant flowers. Flowers can be found in the wild on grass blocks. They can be planted on grass; you can really only transfer a flower from one place to another.
- You can obtain bonemeal and right-click on the ground and you might get a flower if you're lucky.
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Can you plant seeds in creative? If you can, then how?

Use a hoe and right click the ground, causing the ground to be lined. Then take the seeds and right click in the same way as survival.
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When I put the seeds on the dirt, it did not grow; however, it was next to water.

You have to hoe the dirt/grass. If you see the small stems appear, wait, or right-click with bone meal.
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Why wouldn't my plant be sprouting?

Try planting it near water. Your plant should be the closest block to water, or else it may not sprout.
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How do you grow a flower in Minecraft?

You can use bonemeal on grass. If you play on creative mode, you can go to your inventory and get the flowers from there.
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Why does coarse dirt work?

It's like farming in real life. Coarse dirt works because the seeds grow faster. The programmer was trying to be realistic.
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How do you make a pot to put flowers in?

First of all, you need clay. Go into your crafting table and turn your clay into bricks. You will need to do this three times, then finally place your three bricks in the shape of a v. This will create the pot to add the flowers to.
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What color are apple seeds in Minecraft?

There are no apple seeds in Minecraft -- only apples that fall from trees when you destroy leaves.
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Can I plant seeds with a dispenser?

No, you can't plant seeds with a dispenser. However, you can plant them by hand.
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Do I have to use a hoe?

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Yes, you have to use the hoe and click on the ground. Once you have done so, click on the soil with the seeds and you are done.
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I tried to plant the harvested sugarcane on my farm. It is surrounded by water, and my other crops are growing fine. Why can't I plant the sugarcane?

You may not have used the correct block to farm on. Use dirt, not grass.

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Most plants can be planted and farmed. Many plants can also be found and harvested from the wild.
Some plants will change color, depending on which biome they're grown in.
Bonemeal can "insta-grow" lots of plants. It is made by putting a bone into the crafting grid. It is applied to a plant by right-clicking. For versions 1.7.0 and up, bonemeal cannot "insta-grow" plants (you have to use 3 to 4 bonemeal).
Some plants can be popped into a flowerpot for decoration. You will need to craft the flowerpot. The plants that can be placed into a flowerpot are saplings, mushrooms, flowers, cacti, ferns, and dead bushes.

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1. Find seeds, carrots, or potatoes.
2. Craft a hoe.
3. Use the hoe on dirt or grass to make farmland.
4. Hold the seeds in your hand.
5. Right-click the land to plant.

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