How do you play farmville on facebook?

[Michelle]

FV will start you off with 300 coins and 6 plots. 4 of these plots will have seeds planted already and FV will give you a short tutorial on how to harvest the plants that are ready (hover your mouse over the crop and it will tell you if they are ready to harvest, or will tell you how far along they are in the process).

Once a crop is ready to harvest, you simply click on it and your farmer will harvest it. When you hover over the empty plot, it will let you know that it is now "fallow land" that you can click on to plow. Plowing one plot costs 15 coins and earns you one experience point (XP). Click again on this plowed plot and you will be given a list of seeds to choose from. Pay attention to how much each costs (to make sure you have enough coins to purchase the quantity you'd like to buy) and how long each takes to harvest. If you are heading to bed, for example, you don't want to choose strawberries, which only take 4 hours to harvest. When you wake up in the morning, your crops will be wilted and you will not earn any profits from them.

To expand your farm, meaning more opportunities for income and XP, you must use the plow tool to create more plots. Once you plow, you can either click on the plot to choose which seed you want to plant, or click on the Market button in your FV toolbar. This will bring up all your options for the level you are currently at.