What the garden is for
Plants placed in the garden earn money. The official description says that income continues while you are offline. It also says you can grow the garden to fit more plants. It does not publish an expansion price list, an offline cap, or which plant is always best.
A money-per-second label on a plant in the official preview belongs to that example. Do not treat it as the rate for every plant of the same name, or as your whole garden's offline total.
Place, rotate, store, and pick up
These controls are from the official PC preview. Another device, or a later update, can show different prompts.
- After a throw, enter placement. Around 00:21 the preview says to click where the plant goes.
- Press R to rotate it.
- Press Q to store it. Auto and Store buttons are also visible on that panel.
- Around 00:24, walking up to a placed Golden Apple Tree shows an E / Pick Up prompt.
Store and pick up are different from selling. Selling is a Settings option, described in the settings guide. The Auto Sell text says throws of selected rarities sell immediately, while new and mutated plants are kept. It does not spell out every rule for a plant that is already placed or stored.
Hiding garden plants does not, by the November 15 settings text, stop their income. Your Plants has Show and Hide, and the game says hidden plants in the garden still earn money.
When to expand
Expand when the thing stopping you is space. More slots let you place more of the collection. Expansion does not increase throw strength and does not add the luck the developer attributes to better seeds.
Before you buy space, look at the cost on your screen and at the training or seed upgrade you were about to buy. There is no verified best order. A full garden cannot hold the next plant even if that plant would have earned more. An empty garden does not throw any farther.
What not to calculate yet
Offline earnings are confirmed as a system and unconfirmed as a formula. Do not multiply a preview's money-per-second label by hours away and treat the product as promised income. Use the balance the game shows when you return.