FarmVille Winter Wonderland Crops: Everything you need to know

As you begin to dive into the world of FarmVille's Winter Wonderland farm, make sure to plant those 100 plots allowed to you, so you can start mastering some of the new crops that have come along with our Christmas / Winter themed farms. You'll need to plant some of these crops for the game's newest goals, but also to earn Bushels that you can use to craft new recipes inside your Winter Wonderland Sweet Shoppe.

There are plenty of crops here to grow and master; here's a complete rundown of each crop with its stats.

Candied Yams

    Costs: 20 coins
    Harvest Time: 4 hours
    Harvest for: 50 coins
    XP Gained: 1
    First Star of Mastery: 30 harvests


Gingerbread

    Costs: 65 coins
    Harvest Time: 8 hours
    Harvest for: 130 coins
    XP Gained: 2
    First Star of Mastery: 80 harvests


Red Iceberry

    Costs: 40 coins
    Harvest Time: 8 hours
    Harvest for: 85 coins
    XP Gained: 1
    First Star of Mastery: 80 harvests


Carrotcicle

    Costs: 125 coins
    Harvest Time: 12 hours
    Harvest for: 215 coins
    XP Gained: 3
    First Star of Mastery: 70 harvests


Iced Rice

    Costs: 55 coins
    Harvest Time: 12 hours
    Harvest for: 115 coins
    XP Gained: 2
    First Star of Mastery: 70 harvests


Holly

    Costs: 80 coins
    Harvest Time: 16 hours
    Harvest for: 195 coins
    XP Gained: 3
    First Star of Mastery: 60 harvests


Iceberg Lettuce

    Costs: 110 coins
    Harvest Time: 20 hours
    Harvest for: 165 coins
    XP Gained: 1
    First Star of Mastery: 70 harvests


Frozen Grapes

    Costs: 30 coins
    Harvest Time: 1 day
    Harvest for: 135 coins
    XP Gained: 3
    First Star of Mastery: 50 harvests


Gummi Bear

    Costs: 75 coins
    Harvest Time: 1 day
    Harvest for: 180 coins
    XP Gained: 3
    First Star of Mastery: 50 harvests


Mint Candy

    Costs: 120 coins
    Harvest Time: 1 day
    Harvest for: 285 coins
    XP Gained: 4
    First Star of Mastery: 50 harvests


Snow Tulip

    Costs: 60 coins
    Harvest Time: 1 day
    Harvest for: 165 coins
    XP Gained: 3
    First Star of Mastery: 50 harvests


Glacial Rose

    Costs: 150 coins
    Harvest Time: 2 days
    Harvest for: 345 coins
    XP Gained: 4
    First Star of Mastery: 30 harvests


As you can see, a few of these crops (the Glacial Rose and Mint Candy, as examples) are pretty beefy crops, offering you plenty of experience points for each plot planted and harvested. It's likely that we'll need to grow each of these individual crops at some point during the Winter Wonderland goals that will continue to roll out in the future, but we'll make sure to give you plenty of warning for when to plant these crops to stay on top of things. For now, plant some Gingerbread for the very first goal in the game and work on upgrading your Polar Train Station while you wait!

Check out the rest of our Holiday 2011 coverage right here.

What do you think of these new Winter Wonderland crops? Which crop do you think looks the prettiest?

FarmVille: Double Mastery on for this weekend on trees and crops

Even though there's no real holiday going on, that hasn't stopped Zynga from celebrating this weekend in FarmVille by turning on double mastery. This double mastery event will take place from now until Monday evening at 9:00 PM PDT. Within that time, all of your crops and trees harvested will count for double the mastery points, so there's a great opportunity here for mastery sign earning!

A couple of things to keep in mind: If you're going for crop mastery, you can activate a bushel when harvesting to earn three points of mastery for each square with this bonus. For tree farmers, you can also employ the orchard rotation technique, while earning double mastery on each orchard you harvest as well. Also, if you happen to own a Platinum Mastery Statue or recently re-released 2X Mastery Statue on your farm, this bonus will not stack on either crops or trees - you'll simply miss out on this event on that particular farm, as it only applies to those without such statues.

As one final note, this event does not give you double mastery points on animals. Why the FarmVille team hasn't decided to include our (mostly) furry friends in these updates hasn't yet been revealed, but I'm sure Zynga has its reasons. Either way, remember - this event will only last for the next couple of days. If you've ever needed extra incentive to play FarmVille on the weekends, this is about as good as it gets.

What crops or trees will you try to mastery during this double mastery weekend? Tell us in the comments!