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Farming and Gardening
March 25, 2026 at 05:09 AM
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Farming in Pokemon Pokopia lets players grow crops for cooking ingredients, Pokemon food, and trading materials. The system uses Ditto's Rototiller move to prepare soil, Water Gun to irrigate, and the Grow specialty to accelerate plant growth. Farming connects directly to the cooking system, which powers up the player's moves and restores PP.
Crops are one of three main food sources alongside foraged items (leaves, seaweed, mushrooms, carrots) and berries that grow on trees. Farming is not required to progress the main story but significantly helps with cooking, which becomes essential in later areas where stronger move variants are needed to break tougher materials.
Rototiller is the core farming move that tills dirt or grass into crop fields, allowing the player to plant seeds. It consumes PP when used. Rototiller can also pick up wildflowers, crops, and plants without destroying them, allowing relocation of existing vegetation.
Travel to the right side of the Pokemon Center in the Withered Wasteland.
Use Rock Smash to break through the stones blocking access to the area.
Find the small pond on the left side of the cleared area. Drilbur appears here.
Accept Drilbur's request. After completing it, Ditto learns Rototiller.
Equip Rototiller as your active move (visible in the bottom-right of the screen).
Aim at ground blocks. Eligible tiles become highlighted.
Press ZR to till the highlighted area into a crop field.
Hold ZR to continuously till and move around while doing so, covering larger areas quickly.
Important limitation: Rototiller does not work on dry dirt. You must water dried-out ground with Water Gun first to restore it before tilling. This is a common early-game confusion in the Withered Wasteland, where much of the ground starts dry.
Select seeds from your inventory to hold them.
Aim at any tilled field and press A to plant the seeds.
Water the crops using Water Gun if required. Some crops can grow without irrigation, but watering speeds up the cycle for all crops.
Station a Pokemon with the Grow specialty nearby to accelerate growth. A Grow Pokemon is needed to trigger sprouting for some crops like beans.
Harvest mature crops by pressing A or using Cut.
Water Gun (learned from Squirtle, the first move in the game) sprays water in a cross/plus (+) pattern across 5 blocks. Some crops require watering to grow at all, while others develop independently. Watering always speeds up the growth cycle regardless.
For hands-free irrigation, two options exist:
Method | Source | Cost | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
Water Basin + Water Specialty Pokemon | Varies | A Water specialty Pokemon stationed near a full water basin automatically sprays water on nearby fields and plants. | |
Sprinklers | 50 Life Coins | Automatically waters nearby vegetation without manual effort. | |
Rain | Free | Natural rain during rainy weather waters all outdoor plants. |
Eating Soup temporarily powers up Water Gun. When powered up, hold ZR to cover a larger area, making manual watering more efficient.
The following crops can be grown from seeds planted in tilled soil:
Crop | Wild Location | Cooking Use | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
Beans | Withered Wasteland (hill west of the Pokemon Center) | Hamburger Steaks (powers up Rock Smash) | Needed for Team Initiation Challenge (10 beans) and "Time to Party" request (15 beans). Takes ~1 in-game day to grow with Grow specialty. |
Rocky Ridges (south of the area, past the Pokemon Center) | Bread (powers up Cut) | Requires reaching Rocky Ridges (Great Trainer Rank). Essential for late-game progression. | |
Tomatoes | Bleak Beach (west of the gate to Withered Wasteland, after Rock Smash) | Soups and Hamburger Steaks | Restores PP when eaten raw. Needed for Team Initiation Challenge. Seeds unlock at Bleak Beach Environment Level 3. |
Potatoes | Various areas | Hamburger Steaks and Soups | Fast-growing crop. Used in Potato Hamburger Steak. |
Leafy Greens | Various areas | Salads (powers up Leafage) | Base ingredient for all Salad recipes. |
These ingredients are gathered from the world rather than grown from seeds:
Ingredient | How to Get | Cooking Use |
|---|---|---|
Carrots | Pull from leaves sticking out of the ground in various areas | Carrot Bread, Healthy Soup. Better than berries for PP restoration. |
Leaves | All Salad recipes. Can be farmed in an infinite loop (see Tips). | |
Mushrooms | Found growing wild in caves and damp areas | |
Found near coastal areas in Bleak Beach | ||
Purchased from the Pokemon Center PC Shop | All Soup recipes (base ingredient) |
Leppa Berries are the most common berry. To harvest them, water withered trees with Water Gun to revive them, then press A near the tree to headbutt it and knock berries down. They restore PP when eaten directly and are used in Leppa Bread and Leppa Salad. Chesto Berries and Aspear Berries also exist and have dedicated seeds (Leppa Seeds, Chesto Seeds, Aspear Seeds are listed in the game's item database).
Flower and hedge seeds are available for decorative planting rather than cooking:
Wildflower Seeds
Beautiful-Flower Seeds
Cute-Flower Seeds
Adorable-Hedge Seeds
Healthy-Hedge Seeds
Dandy Flower Seeds (event-only, from the More Spores for Hoppip event)
Source | Details |
|---|---|
Bean Seeds, Wheat Seeds, Tomato Seeds: ~50 Life Coins per 5 bags. Limited daily stock that refreshes each day. Some seeds unlock based on area Environment Level (e.g., Tomato Seeds at Bleak Beach Env Level 3). | |
Wild Discovery | Crops found growing wild in specific areas. Use Rototiller on wild crop blocks to collect the whole plant; use Rock Smash to get just the seed. |
Cutting with Scyther | Using Cut on mature plants, flowers, and trees sometimes yields seeds alongside the crop or berry. |
Pokemon gifts | Befriended Pokemon occasionally offer seeds when you give them presents, complete their requests, or build their habitats. |
Quest rewards | Hitmonchan gives 3 bags of bean seeds during the "Grow Some Beans" request. |
Abandoned structures on Dream Islands may contain rare seeds. | |
Event items | Dandy Flower Seeds cost 5 Cotton Spores during the Hoppip event. |
Pokemon with the Grow specialty make plants grow faster when stationed near farm plots or when following the player near plant sites. VGC lists approximately 22 Pokemon with the Grow specialty, including evolutionary lines:
Pokemon | Other Specialties |
|---|---|
None | |
None | |
Bellsprout: Litter | |
None | |
Teleport | |
Dartrix/Decidueye: Chop | |
Servine: Litter | |
None | |
None |
During the More Spores for Hoppip event, Hoppip, Skiploom, and Jumpluff also have the Grow specialty. Bulbasaur is available earliest and is the recommended farming companion for the first half of the game.
Farming feeds directly into the cooking system, which is unlocked in Rocky Ridges after freeing Chef Dente (a Greedent trapped in a barrel). All cooked food fully restores PP for the powered-up move and can be gifted to Pokemon to increase their happiness.
Recipe Type | Station | Base Ingredient | Move Powered Up | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Salad | Chopping Board | 1 Leaf + 1 other | Grows 4 patches of grass instead of 1 (5 in + pattern when powered) | |
Bread | Bread Oven or Frying Pan over fire | 1 Wheat + 2 other | Cuts through metal and tougher materials | |
Soup | Cooking Pot over fire/stove | 1 Fresh Water + 2 other | Increased power and area coverage | |
Hamburger Steak | Frying Pan over fire/stove | 1 Bean + 3 other | Breaks normally unbreakable rocks, collects gold and iron ore |
Adding different secondary ingredients creates recipe variants with distinct flavor profiles:
Variant | Key Ingredient | Flavor |
|---|---|---|
Tomato | Sour | |
Potato | Sweet | |
Mushroom Hamburger Steak / Soup | Mushroom | Dry |
Carrot | Spicy | |
Seaweed Salad / Soup | Bitter | |
Leppa Bread / Salad | Leppa Berry | Sweet |
Crushed Berry Salad | Chesto Berry (requires Crush specialty nearby) | Sweet |
Any (requires Chop specialty nearby) | Varies | |
Soup + Wheat (requires Burn specialty nearby) | Varies | |
Spicy |
Several habitats are built using farming components:
Habitat | Number | Components | Pokemon Attracted |
|---|---|---|---|
Fresh Veggie Field | #015 | 8 Vegetable Fields (any crop type) | |
Toil in the Soil | #108 | 4 Vegetable Fields + 1 Wheelbarrow | |
Chef's Kitchen | #133 | Cooking Stove + Plain Table + Cutting Board + Modern Sink + Stylish Cooking Pot + 1 Plated Food | |
Yellow Carpet | Event | 4 Dandy Flowers in 2x2 grid |
Learn Rototiller as early as possible in the Withered Wasteland. Water any dry ground with Water Gun before attempting to till it.
Station Bulbasaur near your farm plots. It is available early and has the Grow specialty, which is essential for triggering sprouting and speeding up growth.
Leaf farming loop: Use Leafage to plant grass, let it grow, cut with Scyther's Cut to get leaves, then replant. Eating Salad powers up Leafage to grow 4-5 patches at once, creating an unlimited leaf supply.
Place a Water Basin near your fields and station a Water specialty Pokemon nearby. The Pokemon will automatically water your crops without manual effort.
Prioritize growing Beans and Wheat. Hamburger Steaks (Rock Smash power-up) and Bread (Cut power-up) are the two most important recipes for story progression.
Buy seeds daily from the PC Shop. Stock refreshes each day, and 50 Life Coins per 5 seeds is a reasonable price.
Use Rototiller on wild crop blocks to collect the entire plant intact. Use Rock Smash on a planted block to get just the seed instead.
Water withered trees with Water Gun, then press A to headbutt them for Leppa Berries. This is the primary PP restoration method before unlocking cooking.
Having Pokemon with Chop, Crush, or Burn specialties nearby while cooking creates unique recipe variants with different flavor profiles and effects.
Build the Fresh Veggie Field habitat (#015) with 8 Vegetable Fields to attract Drilbur and Rowlet, both useful farming companions.
Save 50 vegetable seeds for the Leafeon habitat challenge in Palette Town, which requires planting all 50 seeds at once.
