Topsoil for Sale from Merchants?

[HakuroDK]

Heya! So from what I have gathered, the only way to get any kind of topsoil is through mining it or from buying it via the market boards.

So I have to ask, is there away to make, at the very least, Grade 1 topsoil available for sale from merchants?

Since taking a serious look into gardening to try to cultivate Curiel Root through cross-breeding, I've noticed that gardening can be really, really expensive or really, really time-consuming, depending on whether or not you have a L50 miner with a gathering skill of 400+.

[Eye_Gore]

Why not just mine it yourself, then there is no need to buy it.

[Thaliss]

once you mine all topsoil 1, you could have a retainer search it for you.

But of course it mean you have Miner class and a retainer set as miner.

I am just sad you can't use your skills to get more than 1 topsoil.

[FJerome]

There's one vendor in each Housing District that says they have no stock because they haven't finished negotiating with the Botanist Guild yet. I'm assuming that once housing is more wide-spread those vendors will start to sell low-level soil and seeds.

[Estellios]

G3 topsoil takes no time at all to gather. The only two soil worth gathering in large quantities are at 5 and 6 AM game time and always at those nodes so you just go there around those times, grab them, and continue with your day. You will only need soil every few days anyway. Edit: And you also only need 370 gathering for G3 topsoil which is attainable without the Forager's tool (since you need that much to get the required items for it).

Grade 1 and 2 take a while to appear, however a trick you can use if you weren't aware is that you need to cycle through at least 3 nodes to reshuffle their contents and positions, however you don't actually have to gather anything from them. You can just check a node, cancel out if there are no seeds or soil, then go to the next one.