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Like HM:AWL trees cannot be planted next to any other trees or crops. So in
HW:AWL, you could simply use an X-formation, planting the first tree next to the corner of the land. Unfortunately, in HW:MM, trees need a whole 3x3 square zone, the tree being in the middle of the zone. There must also be nothing in its zone except the tree itself. You might also want to make sure that weeds are never next to trees, because weeds kill trees. Well, saplings anyway. If not, then the trees won't give you any fruits. Sounds simple enough, right? So ideally, you would want to plant trees like this:

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-X--X--X-
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The "X" represents the tree and the "-" represent land needed by the tree.
Although this formation seems like the best, it would be a mistake to use it.
But if you did you use, perhaps you noticed something. All the trees grew up fine, but only a few of the trees seem to produce any fruits. If you look more closely, only a few trees near the outer layer and a very few random trees growing near an arkward arrangement of land (such as the one on the beach at the bottom) seem to be producing fruits. Then you look even more closely, and get an awful realization that the four or so trees that are dropping any fruits have at least an extra space of land. I have no idea why, but perhaps that explains why many of the mora trees around the village usually have more than enough space to grow. So I did something like this in my next game:

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--X--X---X-
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Guess what? They still produced very little fruits. Haha. Well, at least every tree seem to be dropping fruits, but I would definitely not recommend fruit trees as your main source of cash, unlike in HM:AWL. Instead, grow them on your spare land. You will eventually have more land than you can use as you play the game, so might as well use those land for trees.

Well, that's that, and you're good to go.

Good luck everyone, and have fun playing Harvest Moon: Magical Melody!

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I thank everyone for reading this guide and finding it useful. I would also like to thank everyone who took the time to send me comments and inputs, even if I eventually had too much e-mail to be able to respond to all of them. Even if I didn't reply, please know that I did read your e-mails. There were also many players who e-mailed my game questions, many that had nothing to do with crop formations. That's fine to, as long as I can be of help. I just hope no one starts taking it for granted and starts demanding instant help as if I'm a free strategy hotline. That wouldn't be really fun, I would think.

Now, I don't really take credit for any crop formations (or any general gaming stuff that was obviously meant to be part of the game), and I believe no one really owns a crop formation. If anyone owns it, it's Natsume. It's also likely that someone else used the crop formation before. Otherwise, I do believe in giving credit to people who help compile gaming information to help fellow players. I had a couple of people who e-mailed me the same information, but I will try to do what I can to credit everyone who wanted to be helpful. Also, if you did not want your name or alias to be posted here, please send me an e-mail
ASAP and I will remove it right away. Note that e-mail is not considered private property (when it comes to sharing it), but I do respect your privacy.
If you every send me information that is potentially helpful enough for me to add to my guide, you're free to either give me an alias I can post or tell me ahead of time that you want to remain anonymous. For those that haven't given me an alias to use and haven't exactly given me permission to use his/her name,
I will only post his/her first name until I receive an response from him/her.
Please note that I try my best to at least mention people who e-mailed me and were trying to be helpful, even if there was no new information given or there was nothing I could really use. Please understand this.

Thanks to djdoodet for being the first person to send me an e-mail with some tips on my guide, for pointing out that crops can be jumped over. See [3C01].

Thanks to Dalton Tyler, Laurie, Kyle, and Wesley for sending in some crop formation information and other helpful comments. I haven't yet finished using a few formations some of them mentioned, or haven't yet added it to the guide, but I'll try to get to those whenever I can.

I hope this guide was useful, and thanks for reading!