I recently learned that crows only eats your crops if you have 16 or more tiles planted. That means you can plant 15 crops early without worrying about the crows at all.
What are other small tips and tricks you guys know?
Pay attention to the rotating stock in the different shops - Oasis, Desert Trader, Krobus. I was too lazy to check regularly on my first runs and thought it was mainly decorations and all the useful stuff is available permanently.
Krobus sells one IRIDIUM SPRINKLER on Fridays! Amazing when you don’t have enough iridium yet. He also sells mixed seeds on Thursday (always running low on those to make tea bushes) and buff food on Saturdays.
Oasis has Speed-Gro for 80g on Thursdays instead of Pierre’s 150g and 3 Omnigeodes on Wednesday.
Desert Trader has stairs for jade on Sundays.