How to get tomatoes in Animal Crossing

Our Animal Crossing: New Horizons farming guide will introduce you to the new foods to grow that were added along with the meals in the Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ big new 2.0 update. We’ll teach you where to find produce starts and wild crops to get your farm started.


Crops and produce for food and drink

There are five new kinds of produce to grow in the 2.0 update:

  • Carrots
  • Potatoes
  • Sugarcane
  • Tomatoes
  • Wheat

The new crops grow like flowers or trees — just plant them, water them, and wait three days. They always provide at least one — usually more — of the crop you grew, so you can expand your farm quickly.

Once you have wheat and sugarcane, you can turn them into flour, whole-wheat flour, sugar, and brown sugar at a kitchen or stove.

Other fruits and vegetables show up in Animal Crossing: New Horizons recipes, like Pumpkins (specifically Orange Pumpkins), the various fruit trees that have been in the game since the beginning, and even Clumps of Weeds.

Food, cooking, and DIY Recipes+ in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

You can use produce that you grow to make the various foods, too. Our guide teaches you where to find food recipes and what crops you need to make the recipes.

Guide


Purchase Produce Starts from Leif

The easiest way to start your farm is to buy Produce Starts from Leif. Either wait for him to visit your island (he’ll show up one day a week) or progress Harv’s co-op until Leif opens his stall in Harv’s Island Plaza.

How to get tomatoes in Animal Crossing
Looking for Animal Crossing: New Horizons wheat? Find Leif.Image: Nintendo EPD/Nintendo via Polygon

Once you’ve got access to Leif, he’ll sell two Produce Starts for 280 bells each.


Take Kapp’n’s Boat Tours

If you’re looking for produce but you don’t want to (or can’t) go the Lief route, you have another option: Take boat tours with Kapp’n for 1,000 Nook Miles per trip (with a limit of one boat tour per day). There’s a (tiny) chance that Kappa’s will take you to an island a farm growing carrots, potatoes, sugarcane, tomatoes, and wheat.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Nook Mileage rewards list

Earn Nook Miles for completing various tasks around your island=.

Guide

How to get tomatoes in Animal Crossing
How to get tomatoes in Animal Crossing

Animal Crossing: New Horizons guides

  • Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0 20

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    • New things to do in November
    • Gyroids and gyroid fragments
    • Happy Home Paradise unlock guide
    • 8 quality-of-life additions added in Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ 2.0 update
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    • How to get wheat
    • Kapp’n’s Boat Tours
    • Ordinances
    • Harv’s Island Plaza
    • Permanent ladders
    • Storage shed
    • How to unlock Brewster
    • Donation box
    • How to get Shino and 15 more new 2.0 villagers
    • How to invite villagers to Happy Home Paradise islands
    • Glowing moss and vine DIY recipe list
    • Pro Camera App
    • How to get Froggy Chair
    • Animal Crossing 2.01 update

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    • Island layout selection
    • Where to put your tent
    • What time does the new day start?
    • How to back up your island

  • Learn the basics 11

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    • 8 tasks to do every day
    • Online multiplayer
    • How to time travel
    • Tool durability
    • What does eating fruit do?
    • How to poop 💩
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    • Moving rocks and making a rock garden
    • Improving the game chat

  • Buildings and structures 9

    • Upgrading your house
    • How to unlock the Shop, the Museum, and more
    • How to unlock the Able Sisters tailor shop
    • Guide to the Museum
    • How to move items and manage your pocket and house inventory
    • How to move and rotate furniture
    • How to move buildings
    • How to build bridges and inclines
    • How to upgrade Nook’s Cranny

  • Catching critters 9

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    • Complete fish list
    • Complete bug list
    • Complete sea creature list
    • How to catch wasps easily
    • How to catch a cricket (after you hear it)
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    • How to catch a fly

  • Farming for items 9

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    • How to find more Tree Branches
    • Planting trees
    • Find and farm Iron Nuggets
    • How to get golden tools
    • Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ item cloning glitch
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    • How to force balloon spawns every 5 minutes
    • Fishing Tourney guide and rewards list

  • Upgrades 7

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    • How to upgrade tools
    • Gulliver’s Communicator Parts guide
    • Where to find Shooting stars, Star Fragments, and the Magic Wand
    • How to get items from Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp
    • How to climb cliffs
    • How to get the Nook Shopping phone app

  • Making money (Bells) 6

    • Guide to making money (or Bells) fast
    • Create a tarantula island to earn Bells
    • Farming Bells from the Money Rock
    • How to grow Money Trees
    • How to manage, drop (and plant) Bells
    • How to buy and sell Turnips on the Stalk Market

  • Nook Miles 3

    • Nook Miles Tickets and islands guide
    • Nook Mileage rewards list
    • Nook Miles+ rewards guide

  • Character and island customization 11

    • Full hairstyles list
    • Face guide and gallery
    • How to customize furniture
    • How to move trees
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    • How to create and share custom patterns
    • Guide to Terraforming
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    • How to make a villager move out 
    • How to get K.K. Slider
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    • How to sell bugs to Flick the vendor
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    • Halloween event guide
    • Turkey Day guide
    • Toy Day event guide
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How do you get vegetables in Animal Crossing?

How to Get Vegetable Starts. Starts are sold by Leif. You can find him either on your island when he comes to visit and sets up shop outside your Resident Services Building, or at Harv's Island Plaza after unlocking his shop there.

How do you get tomato and wheat in Animal Crossing?

Buy from Leif Leif sells "starts" — small crops that are ready to be planted and grown in your very own garden. He'll have tomatoes, potatoes, sugarcane, wheat, and carrots — though not all at the same time.