Best Summer Crops in Stardew Valley (1.6)

Short answer: planted on day 1, the most profitable summer crops per tile are Starfruit (715g), Blueberry (526g) and Red Cabbage (488g), sold raw with no professions or fertilizer.

Profit is sale value minus seeds over the season. Change your farming level, fertilizer or Tiller below and the ranking updates. Planting later in the season? Use What to Plant Today.

Your farm

Summer crops ranked

Ranked for farming level 0, no fertilizer, no professions.

Profit per tile for each crop, best first
#CropProfit / tilePer dayHarvestsSeeds
1 Starfruit 715g 27.5g 2 400g (Oasis)
2 Blueberry regrows 526g 21.0g 4 80g (Pierre's)
3 Red Cabbage 488g 18.1g 3 100g (Pierre's)
4 Corn regrows into Fall 405g 7.5g 11 150g (Pierre's)
5 Hops regrows 369g 13.7g 17 60g (Pierre's)
6 Melon 345g 14.4g 2 80g (Pierre's)
7 Hot Pepper regrows 293g 11.3g 8 40g (Pierre's)
8 Tomato regrows 269g 10.0g 5 50g (Pierre's)
9 Radish 204g 8.5g 4 40g (Pierre's)
10 Wheat into Fall 198g 3.8g 13 10g (Pierre's)
11 Poppy 124g 5.9g 3 100g (Pierre's)
12 Summer Spangle 123g 5.1g 3 50g (Pierre's)
13 Sunflower into Fall -265g -5.5g 6 125g (JojaMart)

How this list is made

  • Each crop is planted on day 1 and grown until it dies at the end of its last season. Single-harvest crops are replanted the day they are harvested; seeds for every planting are paid.
  • Only crops whose seeds are sold every day for gold (Pierre's, JojaMart, the Oasis) are listed. Festival and Traveling Cart seeds are left out.
  • Crops marked into … also grow in the next season, so their total covers both seasons. Gold per day divides the profit by the days from planting to the last harvest.
  • Prices are for selling raw. Kegs and Preserves Jars change the order a lot: see Keg vs Preserves Jar.

Sources and accuracy

Verified for Stardew Valley 1.6.15 Data last checked 2026-10-09.

Every value comes from the Stardew Valley Wiki and is cross-checked between at least two of its pages; the formulas are tested against the wiki's own tables. See the methodology. Found a wrong number? Tell us.