
Remember that, in Sunshine Islands, you can order an Enchantment either to reduce Prices or to reduce amount of Materials required or both.Īs in Island of Happiness, the Greenhouse can be upgraded. To me, the addition of a Shipping Bin is the least necessary of all options, but it is the least expensive as well as the cost for one is: The cost of the addition of another Sun Box is: You therefore need to order a Water Spigot for the Greenhouse as soon as possible. In Sunshine Islands, you cannot take water from the shore of the Island, as it is saltwater and would kill your Crops and Grains. The fact that the Greenhouse is located on a different Island has a rather cruel effect in Sunshine Islands which is to deny you any water source closer than the one located in the southwest corner of your Field. As far as Rice Island is concerned, Rice once planted in Spring tends to itself and you need not visit THAT Island again until Autumn when the grain is mature and ready to be harvested. If you neither have a Teleport Stone nor Turbo Shoes, you will find yourself at a loss to visit Fruit Island and/or Greenhouse Island on a daily basis. This is true with respect to all three 'special farming' islands: Greenhouse Island, Rice Island and Fruit Island. In Sunshine Islands, however, it is built on Greenhouse Island, which is reached via a bridge from Link Island, reached via a Bridge from your Farm. In Island of Happiness, the Greenhouse actually is built on your original Field.

but in Sunshine Islands, you actually can add more than one Sun Box to further speed the growth of seasonal Crops. I had imagined that the Greenhouse option in both games would be the same but that is not quite true. In IoH and SI, the fact that weather can prove your undoing in terms of Crops that require either 'less' or 'more' Sunlight and/or Water makes the Greenhouse almost a necessity. In HM DS and Cute DS, where water and sunlight had no specific individual requirements where Crops were concerned, the need for the 'Basements' that were the equivalent of a Greenhouse was not as great as it is in Island of Happiness and Sunshine Islands.

The Greenhouse is an advanced option in many Harvest Moon games, including Sunshine Islands, that allows you to grow crops out of season.
