Pip & Trowel: Idle Farm

Some gardens want a whole weekend. This one wants a minute. Pip & Trowel is a cosy garden you tend with one thumb. Tap a plot to plant a seed. When the little water-drop bubble pops up, tap again to give it a drink. Pull a weed here, shoo a snail there, and tap to harvest when it's ready. Then put your phone down. The garden keeps growing while you're gone, and something is always waiting when you come back. TEN THINGS TO GROW Start with radishes and lettuce, ready in under a minute. Level up to carrots, tulips, strawberries and sunflowers. Keep going for tomatoes, lavender, roses, and the slow, glorious pumpkin. Every plant has its own look at every stage. A GARDEN THAT GETS BIGGER Nine plots to begin with. Earn coins and expand to sixteen, twenty-five, then thirty-six. Add a gnome to keep the weeds down, a scarecrow to keep the snails off, a beehive to speed everything up, and a lily…