1. Weed your garden by using your rake with the patch. Save the weeds to make your own compost.
2. Use compost on your empty garden patch.
3. Use your seed on the patch and water with a watering can.
4. Finally either plant a flower, hire a gardener, stand around and water, or place a scarecrow.

If you are planting trees, there are a few extra steps involved. Trees cannot be planted directly into the ground, they must be planted in a plantpot of soil in your inventory, watered until they grow into a sapling, and then transplanted into the correct farming patch. A plantpot can be filled with soil from any empty farming patch by using a gardening trowel. Trees and herbs do not need watering.

Here are some ways to avoid diseases.

1. Stand around and water plants when required
2. Plant flowers/scarecrow
3. Hire the services of a local garderner.

You should ALWAYS use compost or super-compost.   If you plant flowers, your plants have a lower chance of dying ( use a scarecrow with sweet corn). If you use normal compost, your plants will need just 1 watering, and then you can leave them to do other things. In the center of each vegetable area (allotment) there is a flower patch. Flowers are not just there to make the place look pretty, they are used to protect your crops. This means that certain types of flowers will attract the same pests as some crops, enough for the pests to leave the crops alone in preference to the flowers. Marigolds will provide protection over potatos, onions, and tomatoes, Rosemary will protect cabbages, and Nasturtiums will protect watermelons. Sweetcorn can be very attractive to birds, and if attacked their chances of being diseased increase. Note: DO NOT PICK THE FLOWER! You must have a grown flower there in order for it to protect the crops! You should hire the services of a local gardener. To hire them, you will have to give them compost, sacks, or baskets of produce. Although expensive, your crops are guaranteed to survive until adulthood. The gardeners payment depends on the seed planted, but usually is one level lower than what is planted. Example: 2 cabbage sacks(10) to watch over tomatos.  If you forget to do one of these methods or for some reason your crops become diseased, simply purchase a plant cure from a local gardener or Farming shop.

Compost is very important in Farming. It helps to ensure your plants reach adulthood. You can buy compost from Farming shops, but it is expensive and requires many unnecessary trips. I suggest you make your own, its very easy to make. Making compost saves trips and money.

1. While at a farming patch, take all the weeds you can find, and use them with the nearby compost bin. You can get weeds by raking out the patches. Look around the ground for people that have dropped their weeds, potatoes, marigolds, etc. and use them with the bin too. If you can't find any weeds or vegetation on the ground, you can go pick cabbage, potatos, onions, etc. from nearby areas.
2. When it is full, close the lid and let it rot for 45 to 70 min, as the time it takes to rot is different each time.
3. When the compost has fully rotted (you know this when you are able to open the lid), open the lid, and then you can get compost by using a bucket on it. Using 1 bucket on the compost bin and getting compost will give you 4.5 farming exp. Treating the soil with compost will give you 18 farming exp.

Super Compost is better to use whilst farming.

Super Compost:

• Lowers the time that your crops will grow in.
• Will also increase your crop yield (I.E: You will get more Sweetcorn than you would with normal compost from your sweetcorn plant).
• Will also lower the chance of your crops getting diseased.

However, Super Compost is harder to make. You will need to use 15 Pineapples, Watermelons or Avantoes (or better) on the bin or the mixture of them, but if you put anything in that is not as good as these then you will only get normal compost.
An example is that if you put 10 Pineapples and 5 Watermelons in to the Compost bin then you will get Super Compost. But if you use 10 Pineapples, 4 Watermelons and 1 Potato with the Compost bin then you will get Regular Compost.

There are three easy ways of making Super Compost:

• Method 1:
  1. Go to Southern Brimhaven, near Brimhaven Dungeon.
  2. Pick all of the Pineapple plants that are around this area untill your inventory is full.
  3. Now go to Ardougne and bank the Pineapples.
  4. Repeat step 1-3 untill you got the amount of Pineapples you want to have. NOTE: It takes 15 Pineapples to fill one Compost bin.
  5. Now use the Pineapples that you have got with a Compost bin.
  6. Wait around an hour for the Pineapples to rot. NOTE: This is an average time!
  7. Open the compost bin to find your Super Compost inside. You can get 15 Buckets of Super compost from one full compost bin.
• Method 2:
  1. Go to the Grand Tree which is located in the Tree Gnome Stronghold.
  2. Go to the second level of the Grand Tree and see Heckle Funch, who sells Pineapples. He's near a bank as well, but his stock probably isn't as much as picking them yourself. You may need to server hop to get a bunch.
  3. Keep server hopping and banking untill you got the amount of pineapples you want. NOTE: It takes 15 Pineapples to fill one Compost bin.
  4. Now follow steps 5-7 of Method 1 to got Super Compost.
• Method 3:

1. Simply buy your needed items from other players!
2. Now follow steps 5-7 of Method 1 to got Super Compost.

Super Compost gives you 8.5 Farming experience for every bucket that you fill up, thus giving you 127.5 Farming experience when you fill 15 buckets up with Super Compost. Using Super Compost on a Farming patch will give you 25 Farming experience.