RANARR FARMING:
At level 32 farming you have the ability to farm ranarr weeds! In my opinion this is one of the BEST ways of making money, whilst still being able to train other skills! To farm ranarr weeds you need super compost, a rake, a spade and ranarr seeds.
For the purpose of this guide I will keep the cost of ranarr seeds at 20,000gp each, and the cost of super compost as 1,000gp each. The selling price of ranarr weeds will be 6,500gp each.

Lets say we bought 100 Ranarr seeds = 2,000,000gp
And we bought 100 Super compost = 100,000gp
Therefore total cost = 2,100,000gp
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Now, each ranarr seed, when using super compost, yields an average of 7 ranarr weeds per seed, so from planting 100 seeds we will yield approximately 700 ranarr weeds!

Selling these ranarr weeds at 6,500gp each will get you 4,550,000gp!

Profit = Revenue - Cost
Therefore profit = 4,550,000gp – 2,100,000gp = 2,450,000gp!

You can farm 100 ranarr seeds in a matter of a few days! On my account I got from level 1 – 32 farming in just over a day, and farmed 100 ranarr seeds in 3 days. This is amazing profit and the best part is you don’t even have to be there! The beauty of farming herbs is that you rake the patch, super compost it and plant the seed, then let it sit there for 75 minutes (including offline time) without the need to water it! This means whilst the herbs are growing you can go fish, woodcut, fletch or whatever you desire!
I personally use the Falador South/Draynor, Catherby and Ardougne patches for growing herbs, and fish at the fishing guild whilst waiting for the herbs to grow. It is advisable to check up on your herbs to make sure they do not become diseased, which can easily be cured by using plant cure purchasable from any farming NPC near the patches! Hopefully this proves to you that this is NOT a worthless skill!

Farming tools, shops and storage

Before you can start Farming you will need to get some farming tools. These can all be bought in the Farming Shops located close to all allotment patches. They are relatively inexpensive at around a few gp each. Some of them can also be found at various respawning points, such as the shed in Lumbridge swamps. Here is a list of all the farming tools:

Pic	Name	Information
	Rake	Needed to clear weeds from patches.
	Spade	Needed to harvest crops, to remove dead plants, to remove plant roots and bushes, to plant tree seedlings and to pick herbs.
	Watering can	Needed to start allotment, flowers, and potted tree seeds to grow.
	Magic watering can	You can obtain a Magic watering can by completing the quest A Fairy Tale Part III - Battle at Orks Rift. This watering can holds a limitless supply of water and does not need to be refilled.
	Seed dibber	Needed in your inventory to plant seeds.
	Gardening trowel	Needed for planting tree seeds in pots.
	Secateurs	Needed to cut away diseased branches from bushes and trees.
	Magic Secateurs	Secateurs can be blessed during the quest A Fairy Tale Part I - Growing Pains. Magic secateurs increase crop yields by around 10% if wielded when harvesting and they can be stored with your leprechaun.
	Gardening boots	Dropped by Farmers. Decorative only. Can't be bought in the farming shop.
	Basket	Used to store up to 5 fruits.
	Basket pack	Contains 50 noted baskets. Stackable.
	Sack	Used to store up to 10 vegetables (potatoes, onions and cabbage only).
	Empty sack pack	Contains 50 noted empty sacks. Stackable.
	Plant Pot	Used to plant tree seeds. Also requires trowel and watering can.

Farming Shops
Farming shops are where you can purchase the necessary tools such as sacks, compost, pots and all farming tools. Their locations are detailed below. All farming shops are shown like this on the RuneScape map:

Name	Info	Name	info
North of Catherby		North-west of Port Phasmatys
North of Ardougne		South-east of Falador

The Leprechaun's Tool Shed
At each farming patch, you can find a leprechaun wandering nearby. This leprechaun will offer to hold your tools, buckets, and compost in his magical tool shed. He will also note any farming produce from allotments, as well as flowers, herbs, and fruit from trees, even if you can't yet grow the items at your farming level. This includes anything that you can farm (except logs), even if you did not harvest the items yourself. However, the "Falador farm" leprechaun will not note cabbage.

When you talk to the leprechaun, his tool shed storage screen will come up, and your inventory will change (see picture below). It shows what items you can store, and how many of each item are in the tool shed at the moment. It will only hold 1 of each item, except for scarecrows, buckets, plant cures, compost and supercompost. It will hold 5 scarecrows, 255 empty buckets, 255 plant cures, and 255 of both compost and supercompost varieties. If you have magic secateurs, you can store either them or normal secateurs, but not both, and likewise with the Watering Can and Magic Watering Can. The leprechaun found in the Herblore Habitat will also Juju hunter, farming, and scentless potions, as well as the three god potions, and 30 of each of the respective vines for each potion.

 

Seeds

You can collect seeds by thieving from Master Farmers or from the Seed stalls. The Seed stalls do not yield herb seeds, while the Master Farmers do. Some monsters drop seeds. You can purchase seeds from other players. You can also buy various seed packets with reward points from the Pest Control minigame. Additionally, picking cabbage will give you occasional cabbage seeds, picking potatoes will give you potato seeds, etc.

You can get tree seeds from a bird's nest. Bird's nests are randomly dropped from trees while you are woodcutting. A bird's nest will drop behind your character and you will have to pick it up. Alternatively, bird's nests can be obtained as rewards from various minigames, especially the Miscellania Kingdom. If you search a bird's nest, there is a chance you will find a tree seed, a ring, a fruit tree seed or a bird egg. For those more of a Combat type, you may want to consider the Giant Mole. Killing the Giant Mole will give you mole skin and claws, which you can trade to Wyson the Gardener in Falador park in exchange for 1 bird's nest per mole item you turn in. Consult the Bestiary data for the Giant Mole for more details.

 

Farming tools, shops and storage

Before you can start Farming you will need to get some farming tools. These can all be bought in the Farming Shops located close to all allotment patches. They are relatively inexpensive at around a few gp each. Some of them can also be found at various respawning points, such as the shed in Lumbridge swamps. Here is a list of all the farming tools:

Pic	Name	Information
	Rake	Needed to clear weeds from patches.
	Spade	Needed to harvest crops, to remove dead plants, to remove plant roots and bushes, to plant tree seedlings and to pick herbs.
	Watering can	Needed to start allotment, flowers, and potted tree seeds to grow.
	Magic watering can	You can obtain a Magic watering can by completing the quest A Fairy Tale Part III - Battle at Orks Rift. This watering can holds a limitless supply of water and does not need to be refilled.
	Seed dibber	Needed in your inventory to plant seeds.
	Gardening trowel	Needed for planting tree seeds in pots.
	Secateurs	Needed to cut away diseased branches from bushes and trees.
	Magic Secateurs	Secateurs can be blessed during the quest A Fairy Tale Part I - Growing Pains. Magic secateurs increase crop yields by around 10% if wielded when harvesting and they can be stored with your leprechaun.
	Gardening boots	Dropped by Farmers. Decorative only. Can't be bought in the farming shop.
	Basket	Used to store up to 5 fruits.
	Basket pack	Contains 50 noted baskets. Stackable.
	Sack	Used to store up to 10 vegetables (potatoes, onions and cabbage only).
	Empty sack pack	Contains 50 noted empty sacks. Stackable.
	Plant Pot	Used to plant tree seeds. Also requires trowel and watering can.

Farming Shops
Farming shops are where you can purchase the necessary tools such as sacks, compost, pots and all farming tools. Their locations are detailed below. All farming shops are shown like this on the RuneScape map:

Name	Info	Name	info
North of Catherby		North-west of Port Phasmatys
North of Ardougne		South-east of Falador

The Leprechaun's Tool Shed
At each farming patch, you can find a leprechaun wandering nearby. This leprechaun will offer to hold your tools, buckets, and compost in his magical tool shed. He will also note any farming produce from allotments, as well as flowers, herbs, and fruit from trees, even if you can't yet grow the items at your farming level. This includes anything that you can farm (except logs), even if you did not harvest the items yourself. However, the "Falador farm" leprechaun will not note cabbage.

When you talk to the leprechaun, his tool shed storage screen will come up, and your inventory will change (see picture below). It shows what items you can store, and how many of each item are in the tool shed at the moment. It will only hold 1 of each item, except for scarecrows, buckets, plant cures, compost and supercompost. It will hold 5 scarecrows, 255 empty buckets, 255 plant cures, and 255 of both compost and supercompost varieties. If you have magic secateurs, you can store either them or normal secateurs, but not both, and likewise with the Watering Can and Magic Watering Can. The leprechaun found in the Herblore Habitat will also Juju hunter, farming, and scentless potions, as well as the three god potions, and 30 of each of the respective vines for each potion.

 

Seeds

You can collect seeds by thieving from Master Farmers or from the Seed stalls. The Seed stalls do not yield herb seeds, while the Master Farmers do. Some monsters drop seeds. You can purchase seeds from other players. You can also buy various seed packets with reward points from the Pest Control minigame. Additionally, picking cabbage will give you occasional cabbage seeds, picking potatoes will give you potato seeds, etc.

You can get tree seeds from a bird's nest. Bird's nests are randomly dropped from trees while you are woodcutting. A bird's nest will drop behind your character and you will have to pick it up. Alternatively, bird's nests can be obtained as rewards from various minigames, especially the Miscellania Kingdom. If you search a bird's nest, there is a chance you will find a tree seed, a ring, a fruit tree seed or a bird egg. For those more of a Combat type, you may want to consider the Giant Mole. Killing the Giant Mole will give you mole skin and claws, which you can trade to Wyson the Gardener in Falador park in exchange for 1 bird's nest per mole item you turn in. Consult the Bestiary data for the Giant Mole for more details.

Pic	Location	Name	Thieving	XP
	Draynor Market	Master Farmers	Lvl 38	43 XP
	North of Ardougne	Master Farmer	Lvl 38	43 XP
	South of Varrock	Master Farmer	Lvl 38	43 XP
	Draynor Market	Seed stalls	Lvl 27	10 XP

Compost

Patches that have been treated with compost are less likely to become diseased and will yield a better harvest. Supercompost magnifies both qualities. You can buy compost at farming stores, but not supercompost. To make your own compost or supercompost, you have to fill up a compost bin with organic material. These bins are located at every allotment patch. You will have to put 15 items in to fill the bin. Once you put in the first item, your character will automatically take more of the same items from your inventory and place them in the bin, until you run out or fill the bin. You can examine the bin once you have at least one item in there, and it'll tell you how many items (0-15) are currently in there. Once it is full, close the bin and wait for 40-50 minutes until it's rotten.

When you are able to re-open the bin, you can get 15 buckets of compost or supercompost out of it by simply emptying it. By clicking 'Empty' on the compost bin, all your empty buckets will start to fill in your inventory until you run out of empty buckets or the bin is empty of compost or supercompost. Rotten tomatoes are taken by hand. Low level crops will get you regular compost whereas items such as pineapples, tree roots and watermelons will get you supercompost. Use an item on the local farmer to find out what type of compost it will make. NOTE: You can also use the level 83 Lunar spell, Fertile Soil on a patch to have the same effect as super compost.

Name	How to make them	XP for filling buckets from compost bin	XP for using the compost on the patch
Compost	Put 15 organic items in a compost bin. Examples of suitable material are Weeds, Apples, Bananas, Guam leaves, Marrentil, Potatoes, and Onions.	4.5 XP each (67.5 XP total)	18 XP
Supercompost	Put 15 higher level organic items in a compost bin. Examples are Pineapples, Watermelons, Jangerberries, Whiteberries, Tree roots, Coconut shells, Toadflax, and higher level herbs.	8.5 XP each (127.5 XP total)	26 XP
Rotten tomatoes	Put 15 tomatoes in the compost bin and nothing else.	4.5 XP (67.5 XP total)	None

 

Allotments, Flowers and Herbs

To plant allotment seeds you will need to go to an Allotment patch. At allotment patches there is always a Compost bin, one Herb patch and one Flower patch. Locations are detailed below. You must have 3 allotment seeds to plant an allotment patch.

• Allotment patches - Blue
• Herb patches - Red
• Flower patches - Yellow
• Limpwurt patches - Orange

Picture	Name	Route	Information
	North of Catherby	Teleport to Camelot and walk east, or use the Lunar Catherby teleport, or take the glider to White Wolf Mountain and descend to the west.	There is a farming shop just east of the patch where you can buy everything you need.
	South of Falador (North-west of Draynor)	Teleport to cabbage patch using the Explorer's ring (3) and head north through the gate or to Draynor with an Amulet of glory, and go north-west through the cabbage patch.	You can climb over the stile west of the allotment and walk south in the cow field to the north door of the farming shop.
	North-west of Port Phasmatys	Use your ectophial and go west past the undead farm or use the fairy ring teleport (ALQ) and head north, then east.	When you arrive by ectophial, it's quicker to go to the shop first since the only way in is from the eastern door of the shop.
	North of Ardougne	Fishing guild teleport (Skills necklace or Lunar teleport), east past the windmill, then south-east, or Ardougne teleport, go through the northern gate past the farms and then east, or Ardougne cloak 2 (arrives at the patch).	Visit the farming shop first. It's a long walk around the sheep.
	Troll Stronghold (Herb Only)*	This patch can be accessed using the Trollheim Teleport and running from the top of the hill to the stronghold, or by using the fairy ring teleport network (AJR) and wearing climbing boots to climb the trail east. The normal Death Plateau hike is a much longer walk.	This patch is only accessible after you finish My Arm's Big Adventure. Visit any bank first before you teleport, as there are no banks nearby. No cures are needed since herbs in this patch cannot get diseased. The leprechaun sells farming tools.
	Harmony Island (1 Allotment patch Only)	This patch is only accessible after starting The Great Brain Robbery. This patch is accessed via teleport from Brother Tranquility, located on Mos Le'Harmless	Visit the bank in Mos Le'Harmless first before you teleport, as there are no banks nearby. There is no farmer at the patch to look after your crops for you. The Zombie Pirates can attack you whilst you are farming.
	Level 22 Wilderness Ruins (1 Limpwurt patch Only)	Beware of Player-killers as this patch is located in level 22 of the western wilderness. Limpwurt seeds are normally planted in flower patches, but this spot is unique in that it ONLY accepts limpwurt seeds.	After completing part of the Spirit of Summer quest, a "Goth Leprechaun" will be wandering nearby to store tools.

*The Tools leprechaun here also sells farming supplies, although the supply is best used for patches elsewhere.

Here is a list of what you can plant at Allotment patches, together with some information on how much XP you will receive, and their healing values. Growth times depend on whether a crop suffers from disease during its time in the ground, even when watched by farmers. The times are still shown here to serve as a guideline ONLY.

Seed	Name	Lvl to plant	Seeds to plant	Time to grow	XP for planting	XP for picking	Healing	Result
	Potatoes	Lvl 1	3	40 mins	8	9	Heals 10 (See Cooking guide for baked potatoes)
	Onions	Lvl 5	3	40 mins	9.5	10.5	Heals 10
	Cabbage	Lvl 7	3	35 mins	10	11.5	Heals 10
	Tomatoes	Lvl 12	3	40 mins	12.5	14	Heals 20 (basket heals 100)
	Sweetcorn	Lvl 20	3	55 mins	17	19	Heals 10% of your LP. (must cook first)
	Strawberries	Lvl 31	3	55 mins	26	29	Heals 30~60 (Depending on your stats. A basket contains 5 strawberries.)
	Watermelon	Lvl 47	3	75 mins	48.5	54.5	Heals 120 (must use knife)

You can either take care of the plants yourself, as explained in the Intro or you can let the farmer close to that patch take care of them. However this is going to cost you something, not money but another farming product. Here is the list of farming products you have to pay to let the farmer watch your crops (farmers accept noted payments.)

Name	Payment to Farmer
Potatoes	2 buckets of compost
Onions	1 sack of potatoes
Cabbage	1 sack of onions
Tomatoes	2 sacks of cabbage
Sweetcorn	10 jute fibres
Strawberries	1 basket of apples
Watermelon	10 leaves of curry

Flowers are located in the middle of all allotment patches. Some are meant to protect your crops from getting diseases, others are meant for herblore. You can check the Allotment section of this guide to see the exact locations of the flower patches (they have been marked yellow). You always plant flowers one at a time (one seed), and you always harvest a set amount. This means you will always harvest 1 nasturtium, 1 marigold, 1 rosemary, 3 limpwurt roots and 3 woad leaves (note you only get the XP as shown in the table and not 3 times that XP). The growing times depend on whether a crop suffers from disease during its time in the ground, even when watched by farmers, so the time shown here is a guideline ONLY.

Seed	Name	Lvl to plant	Seeds to plant	Time to grow	XP for planting	XP for picking	Result
	Marigold	Lvl 2	1	17.5 mins	8.5 XP	47
	Rosemary	Lvl 11	1	17.5 mins	12	66.5
	Nasturtium	Lvl 24	1	17.5 mins	19.5	111
	Woad	Lvl 25	1	17.5 mins	20.5	115.5
	Limpwurt	Lvl 26	1	17.5 mins	21.5	120
	White lily	Lvl 52	1	120 mins	50	250	Turns to ash when picked

Some flowers are used to protect your Allotment by attracting away insects; here is a table which shows what protects certain crops.

Name	Protects
Marigold	onions, tomatoes and potatoes
Rosemary	cabbage
Scarecrow	sweetcorn
Nasturtiums	watermelon
White lily	all fruits and vegetables

Herb patches are often found in the same location as Allotments and Flower patches. Check the Allotment section of this guide to see the exact locations of herb patches (marked red). Herbs cannot be protected in any way or be looked after by the farmer (except for the Troll Stronghold patch), so you will have to do it all by yourself. If they get diseased you have to use a plant cure potion on them. If they die, use a spade to dig up the patch. Herb patches do not need to be watered. All herbs obtained from these patches will yield grimy herbs so you would also need the appropriate herblore level to clean them before you can use it, but you can still trade it to other players if you cannot clean them. Here is a list of all the herbs, the levels, and the XP you get from them. The growing times shown in this guide were originally posted by Jagex on the official RuneScape website, but are no longer showing. These times are provided as a guideline ONLY.

Seed	Name	Lvl to plant	Seeds to plant	Time to grow	XP for planting	XP for picking	Result
	Guam leaves	Lvl 9	1	75 mins	11	12.5
	Marrentill	Lvl 14	1	75 mins	13.5	15
	Tarromin	Lvl 19	1	75 mins	16	18
	Harralander	Lvl 26	1	75 mins	21.5	24
	Goutweed	Lvl 29	1	75 mins	105	45
	Ranarr Weed	Lvl 32	1	75 mins	27	30.5
	Spirit Weed	Lvl 36	1	75 mins	32	36
	Toadflax	Lvl 38	1	75 mins	34	38.5
	Irit Leaf	Lvl 44	1	75 mins	43	48.5
	Wergali	Lvl 46	1	75 mins	52.8	51.5
	Avantoe	Lvl 50	1	75 mins	54.5	61.5
	Kwuarm	Lvl 56	1	75 mins	69	78
	Snapdragon	Lvl 62	1	75 mins	87.5	98.5
	Cadantine	Lvl 67	1	75 mins	106.5	120
	Lantadyme	Lvl 73	1	75 mins	134.5	151.5
	Dwarf Weed	Lvl 79	1	75 mins	170.5	192
	Torstol	Lvl 85	1	75 mins	199.5	224.5
	Fellstalk	Lvl 91	1	75 mins	225	315.6

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Scarecrows

Scarecrows are used to protect sweetcorn from getting eaten by birds (which is a disease). You have to build a scarecrow first (this earns 25 XP) and then put it on a flower patch. When you are finished with it, it can be dug up and banked for future use. Here are some instructions on how to make scarecrows and where you can find what you need.

1. Use a empty sack on a straw bale (you can buy empty sacks at any farming shop; there are straw bales and haystacks at every farm, such as just above the farming shop in Ardougne).
2. Then use the hay sack on a bronze spear (you can kill goblins for spears).
3. Now use a watermelon on the bronze spear and hay sack as a head (you can only buy watermelon from other players).
4. Finally use the scarecrow with the flower patch.

 

Hops

Hops patches are not in the same locations as allotment, flower and herb patches. You will need 4 seeds to plant a hops field. Jute is an exception, it only requires 3 seeds. Hops products (except for jute) are used for Brewing ales. Here is the list of all locations of the hops fields.

Picture	Name	Route	Information
	North of McGrubor's Woods	Teleport to Camelot, go west and when you reach a fence, go north of the coal tracks or use the Fairy Ring code ALS, go through the gap in the fence, and head north.	You will pass Seers Village bank on the way.
	Yanille	Teleport to Watchtower and go east, around the fence, and go west past the Wizards Guild or change your Watchtower teleport to inside Yanille (after Hard Ardougne Tasks), and go to the west side.	An agility shortcut through the wall is north of the farming patch. Bank is east of the patch.
	North of Lumbridge farms	Teleport to the Champions' Guild (Combat bracelet), or Lumbridge teleport, cross the northern bridge, and go north past the farms or take the canoe transport to the Champions' Guild canoe station.	Bank in Lumbridge castle - top floor, or in the castle basement after completing at least the first part of the Recipe for Disaster Quest.
	Entrana	Teleport to Draynor, go north and west through the fence, then south to Entrana Monks' boat or teleport to the cabbage patch with the Explorer's Ring and head south (deposit the ring in the deposit box at the boat) or use a balloon transport.	Entrana does not allow weapons, armour, or staves. You can take runes, amulets, and rings for teleport.

Here is a list what you can grow at hops fields, together with levels and XP. The growing times shown in this guide were originally posted by Jagex on the official RuneScape website, but are no longer showing. Growth times depend on whether a crop suffers from disease during its time in the ground, even when watched by farmers. These times are provided as a guideline ONLY.

Seed	Name	Lvl to plant	Seeds to plant	Time to grow	XP for planting	XP for picking	Results
	Barley	Lvl 3	4	35 mins	8.5	9.5
	Hammerstone	Lvl 4	4	35 mins	9	10
	Asgarnian	Lvl 8	4	45 mins	11	12
	Jute	Lvl 13	3	45 mins	13	14.5
	Yanillian	Lvl 16	4	55 mins	14.5	16
	Krandorian	Lvl 21	4	65 mins	17.5	19.5
	Wildblood	Lvl 28	4	75 mins	23	26

You can either take care of the plants yourself, as explained in the intro or you can let the farmer closest to the patch take care of your plants. However this is going to cost you something, not money but another farming product. Here is the list of farming products you have to pay to let the farmer watch your crops (farmers accept noted payments.)

Name	Payment to Farmer
Barley hops	3 buckets of compost
Hammerstone hops	1 marigold
Asgarnian hops	1 sack of onions
Jute	6 barley malt (made by using barley on a range)
Yanillian hops	1 basket of tomatoes
Krandorian hops	3 sacks of cabbage
Wildblood hops	1 nasturtium

 

Trees

You will need to have a trowel to plant the tree seed in a plant pot. You can buy these from the farming store, or you can use an empty plant pot on any gardening patch to fill it with dirt. Water the pot, and very soon it will grow into a sapling. You will need a spade to plant the sapling in a tree patch. Tree patches do not need to be watered. If a tree gets a disease you will have to use your secateurs on the diseased tree. After you have checked the health of your tree you can chop it down. Once it is gone you will see the tree stump like you normally do when woodcutting, but now you can use a spade on it to clear your patch for a new tree. You will receive tree roots, which are used for several things. Oak roots are used for brewing a woodcutting boosting ale, Axeman's Folly. Yew roots are used to make an herblore potion, Antidote+. Magic roots can be used on a spinning wheel to make an Amulet of Nature, or used to make an Antidote++ potion. Roots below magic can be spun into crossbow strings, or used on a compost bin to make supercompost.

Alternatively, you could pay a gardener 200gp and they will clear the patch for you, but you won't get the tree roots this way. Here are the five tree patch locations:

Picture	Name	Route	Information
	Falador park	Teleport to Falador and walk east until you reach the park or teleport to the Mining Guild with a Skills necklace, walk around the building, then north-west past the bank.	Falador east bank is south of the park and north of the Mining Guild entrance.
	Taverley	Teleport to Falador, go north through the members gate, and turn south or use the nearby balloon transport.	Falador west bank is the closest walk.
	Varrock Castle Courtyard	Teleport to Varrock and walk north into the east side of the castle courtyard.	The Grand Exchange and both Varrock banks are within walking distance.
	Lumbridge forest	Teleport to Lumbridge, go north and west around castle, then south-west.	Bank in the Lumbridge castle - top floor, or in the Lumbridge basement after completing at least the first part of the Recipe for Disaster Quest.
	Gnome Stronghold	Use one of the Spirit Trees or teleport to Al Kharid area (Amulet of glory or by enchanted broomstick to the Sorceress's Garden south of town