Summer Update

The Summer Update (patch 1.11.0) is logged as Standard Weather in Grow a Garden, but it functions more as a content milestone than a single in-round event. Rather than rolling a timed effect over your plot like Rain or Frost, this entry marks the seasonal wave that introduced summer-themed seeds, gear, and the warm-weather rotation that the rest of the weather cycle hangs off of.

Because there is no fixed duration or effect value attached to this row, treat it as a planning reference rather than a window to farm. The practical play is to read it as the start of the summer meta: stock up on the seeds and gear that the update unlocked, and align your garden so that the timed events arriving afterward (sun-driven and storm-driven mutations) land on crops you actually care about.

To capitalize, keep a wide, fully planted plot during the update window so every newly added event has maximum surface area to mutate. Sell mutated stock while demand is fresh, and reinvest into whatever high-tier seed the summer rotation favors. The edge here is timing your expansion to the patch, not waiting for a one-off buff.