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How to grow potatoes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ 2.0.0 Update

The humble spud comes to your island.

The Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0 update added a whole host of new adventures to everyone’s islands, such as new places to go, new ordinances, and group stretching. One of the big features of this update is the cooking update, but to cook you need ingredients. So here is everything you need to know about how to grow and harvest potatoes on your island.

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The first step, as you might imagine, is to make sure the 2.0 update is installed on your Switch. You don’t need to purchase the Happy Home Paradise DLC to grow potatoes or any other items on your island.

From there you need to find our old friend Leif. He will show up randomly on your island or you can go to Harv’s Island and invest bells into Leif’s Shop. Whatever route you choose, you can purchase potato seeds for 280 bells. Just remember that Leif doesn’t stock all the starters every day, so you have might have to spend several days to get all the crops on your island.

Once you have your seeds in hand, you need to prepare a space to plant them. Clear an area that can accommodate the number of seeds you want to plant. For each seed, dig a hole and plant a seed the same way you would flowers or trees.

From there, you just need to water your crops daily and they should grow into a fresh batch of potatoes you can use in recipes.


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Trent Cannon
Trent is a Freelance Writer at Gamepur. He has contributed news, guides, and reviews about video games for over a decade and has a special place in his heart for JRPGs, Splatoon, Sea of Thieves, and anything that's a bit silly, really.