Onion

The Onion is one of Grow a Garden's plainer root vegetables, and its record here carries no seed cost, sell price, or growth time, so its economics are best judged qualitatively rather than with invented numbers. As a humble, everyday vegetable rather than a flashy event crop, it slots firmly into the low-tier, high-turnover category that defines early gardening: the kind of seed you buy cheaply, plant in bulk, and rely on for steady cash flow before you can afford anything prestigious.

The honest profitability read is that an onion-class crop almost never wins on raw per-fruit value. Its strength is consistency and low barrier to entry — a beginner can keep a tile productive without sinking real Sheckles into it, which is exactly what a fresh account needs while building toward better seeds. Any single harvest is small, but a full plot of them keeps the economy moving.

For mutation strategy, an inexpensive crop like this is a poor place to spend your rarest multipliers; those belong on high-base plants where the percentage gains are huge. Treat the Onion as an early-game workhorse, then graduate away from it as your income grows.