Every Sunday, Animal Crossing: New Horizons players have a chance to buy turnips from Daisy Mae, and those that do will be looking to resell the root vegetables at a profit. That said, some fans may be curious if anything else can be done with turnips in Animal Crossing: New Horizons beyond just selling them. Specifically, players may be wondering if it possible to plant turnips in ACNH, and this guide looks to shine some light on this matter.
To put things simply, it is not possible to plant turnips in Animal Crossing: New Horizons in the traditional sense, meaning that they cannot be tended to and grown like a flower of tree. While Animal Crossing: Wild World and City Folk did give players the ability to plant special red turnips outdoors, those do not appear to be available in ACNH, and thus players do not need to worry about planting the turnips that they purchase from Daisy Mae.
That said, fans can bury their turnips in Animal Crossing: New Horizons if they so choose. This is done by simply digging a hole with a shovel and dropping the turnips in, and it will leave the same pattern on the ground that players see when they come across fossils and bamboo shoots. While burying turnips is not the same as planting them, and will thus not lead to more being produced, there is a reason that players might still want to do it.
Namely, this is one way to approach storing turnips in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Indeed, these root vegetables cannot be placed in house storage, and burying them is an alternative that may be appealing to fans that want to keep turnips off the floors of their homes and out of their pockets.
However, it is important to note that burying turnips in ACNH will not prevent them from rotting when the next Sunday rolls around. As such, players that decide to use the grounds of their islands to store turnips in Animal Crossing: New Horizons should make sure to dig them up and sell them at Nook's Cranny before Daisy Mae makes her next appearance.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now, exclusively for Nintendo Switch.