Health Mashes in your EC

Right, so you've grown your cash crops and built up a good reserve of equus for your brand new EC.

So, what should you do next?

Well the next best thing to do is start growing all the things you'll need to make health mashes with. Health mashes add prestige to your EC and a lot of people look for them when choosing where to board their horse.

To make health mashes you'll need to grow:

Apples
Carrots
Wheat
Flax
Barley
Oats

Phew, it's quite a bit isn't it?

At this stage buy a greenhouse with the money you've raised (as then you can grow crops all year round which is invaluable for a new EC). Also, try to buy 15 acre fields and, if at all possible, scarecrows (if you can't afford these right now, or you can't/don't want to spend passes, don't worry - you can do it without!)

Always use manure as fertiliser - this shortens the time it takes for the crops to grow. And, if you do have the use of scarecrows - these mean you get twice as much harvest from the same field.

You'll only ever need to plant one crop of apples as the same field will give you a continous supply. You harvest them on the 1st day of each month.

You need to grow lots of carrots, as these are also available to boarders to give to their horses. Keep your supply topped up to ensure you don't run out. To get maximum prestige you need at least 30 carrots for every box you have.

Once you've grown and harvested all your ingredients go to your EC, click on Meadows and then click on produce mash. Choose health mashes and make as many as you can. For health mashes you need at least 10 for every box you have. But you can never have too many!

While all this is going on, you can start to get your EC competitions running. More about that in the next post.

Lucy