As players peruse the cooking DIY recipes that are featured in Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ 2.0 update, they are sure to notice that some of the food items are crafted from various vegetables. These vegetables include carrots, potatoes, and tomatoes (an honorary vegetable), and some fans may have questions about where they come from. For those players that may be having trouble tracking down vegetables in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, this guide is here to help.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Where to Find Carrots, Potatoes, and Tomatoes
To get right to it, all of the vegetables that players will use when cooking in Animal Crossing: New Horizons must be grown from starts. These small plants can all be purchased from Leif, a sloth that occasionally sells his wares in front of Resident Services. While fans are certainly free to check-in daily until they ultimately find Leif in that position, there is a more proactive approach that some players may prefer to take.
Specifically, it is now possible to entice Leif to establish a permanent shop on Harv’s island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. To do this, fans will use their airports to travel to the hippie dog’s island and then speak with him in the plaza that is open to the right of his studio. In this conversation, players should opt to make Leif’s shop the first one that is setup, and they will need to hand over 100,000 Bells to get things underway.
Once a player encounters ACNH’s Leif, either on their own island or on Harv’s, they should tell him that they want to shop in order to see his inventory. Fans should then direct their attention to the first couple of items that Leif is selling, as those will be the cooking ingredient starts that he has in stock. Notably, these offerings change over time, and players may need to let some days pass before they find the vegetable starts that they are looking for.
After ultimately acquiring carrot, potato, or tomato starts, players should plant them wherever they would like. Animal Crossing fans will then need to wait for three days to go by, as the vegetables will not become harvestable until the fourth day. It is worth mentioning here that watering vegetables as they grow will increase their yields, and players that want to maximize their harvests should plan to tend to their plants daily.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now for Nintendo Switch.