Spraying for bugs is the most time consuming activity when caring for the garden, and once I finally befriended the birds in my area, they helped with my gardening from quite a distance. I would definitely make that a priority.
I suggest you work towards a golden chicken who will make your crops perfect/healthy. I just achieved this in week 3 of my rags to ranches save, and I’m able to grow things on a much larger scale (thus far I’ve been very busy maintaining 6 oversized crops and several regular crops). If your oversized crops are healthy then you don’t need to fertilize them.
