How to protect the farm's grass?

[HaleyRocks]

Animals are known gluttons. They keep eating away at the stuff, blissfully munching it to its merry extinction. Normally i wouldn't bother, since in Standard Farm i used to spam Grass Starters in big numbers at each new season's start, but here it is the precious, blue grass, which you do not meet until the endgame.

Should i "cage" big patches of grass away? What items to use? Can somebody please share with me the know-how?

 

[Ereo]

I usually just make sure to have a large area and I put down a couple of lightning rods/fence posts/statues in the grass. Those spots will be protected and keep spreading a bit of grass.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

You can place an item like a fence on top of tufts of grass and that preserves the grass but makes it unable to be eaten. That way it spreads and the grass it spreads can be eaten but not the source and it really helps keep grass everywhere.

Personally I let my animals eat only hay or come in every once in a while with a stack of grass started and place it down everywhere to replenish the field.

 

[IndiaHawker]

Sorry to jump on an old thread - just wondering what sorts of items work for this purpose? Eg with statues does it have to be a 1x1 statue/does this only work with certain types of placeable items? Thanks for any help!

 

[Maxima]

Sorry to jump on an old thread - just wondering what sorts of items work for this purpose? Eg with statues does it have to be a 1x1 statue/does this only work with certain types of placeable items? Thanks for any help!

Any placable 1x1 item should work, furnitures or decors . I use Green Jumino Plushies on mine so that they're not sticking out inside the animal fences and they blend with the grass.

 

[Lew Zealand]

Sorry to jump on an old thread - just wondering what sorts of items work for this purpose? Eg with statues does it have to be a 1x1 statue/does this only work with certain types of placeable items? Thanks for any help!

Fences and Lightning Rods are the usual ways to protect Grass from animal overfeeding. I tested a few fun things you can find, Craft, and select from the various Catalogs like the Golden Lewis Statue, the Golden Column, a Potted Mushroom and all worked and didn't kill the Grass underneath.

 

[MogBeoulve]

Any placable 1x1 item should work, furnitures or decors . I use Green Jumino Plushies on mine so that they're not sticking out inside the animal fences and they blend with the grass.

wait

you can put junimo plushies OUTSIDE?!

HOORAY!

 

[Giant Octopodes]

I use lightning rods since having an array of them makes for an effective feeding area while making the batteries more convenient to harvest. But yeah anything works, just gotta make sure the grass is there first and place the object on top, they won't naturally spread under something already placed. Note that if you're like me and attempting to have blue grass spread *everywhere* then your idea of fenced plots is ideal - fence out the area you want it to spread into so it can expand unopposed, wipe out any "normal" grass competing with it for space, then place lightning rods or whatever once it's spread to cement its progress. Good luck!

 

[evergreen oak]

I always like using the hay blocks you can buy from Marnie as grass-protectors. Stick a few of those bad boys in each barn/coop yard, and you're usually all set