Blue grass on Standard Farm?

[HaleyRocks]

I am considering to start a new save file, on a Standard Farm. Is it actually manageable, to plant and maintain, full blue grass, across its map (once you get the recipe from Qi)? Or the native green will disrupt and break the sequence (since it needs trimming)?

 

[FilthyGorilla]

It's absolutely manageable, sure you can go around trimming the regular grass but you can place fences/lighting rods/machines over blue grass in particular and animals can mow the green grass away without you needing to care much.

In addition, it's not like you're massively losing out if they eat some regular grass here and there either. If your animals are at high/max friendship the blue grass basically does nothing over regular grass either.

 

[stardew_luv]

I am considering to start a new save file, on a Standard Farm. Is it actually manageable, to plant and maintain, full blue grass, across its map (once you get the recipe from Qi)? Or the native green will disrupt and break the sequence (since it needs trimming)?

No it’s totally possible but you will have to have access to starter recipes or enough money to buy decent amount of starters from Pierre. You will have to regularly harvest the green grass out of its path (turn it to hay with silos) so you can let it grow freely. Keep your animals away from it for some time until it gets going. Put fencing on several pieces to keep them making grass while not getting eaten by animals. So a little more TLC, and hard work than meadowland but certainly possible. Animal crackers can do the job way quicker than blue grass though they are harder to get a hold of in the beginning.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

No it’s totally possible but you will have to have access to starter recipes or enough money to buy decent amount of starters from Pierre.

That's for regular grass, they're talking about having a full blue grass coverage (a new feature locked behind the walnut room on all but meadowlands).

Animal crackers can do the job way quicker than blue grass though they are harder to get a hold of in the beginning.

Animal crackers don't affect friendship, they simply allow the animal to create double of the item they would normally, the quality and size of which is still affected by the mood and friendship, of which blue grass increases at a higher rate than regular grass. They're also not at all exclusive, they can both be used in tandem as they have entirely different functions.