A quick question

[Heater]

Is it possible to prevent plowed land from returning to its original state? I've seen several farms recently with perfect, solid tracts of farmland... unlike mine, which looks like a badly aged Swiss Cheese. How do I make my farm keep its plowed state?

[Riou1231]

Just keep planting crops, that's the only way.

[Swordmage]

I don't believe there is any way to prevent plowed land from decaying back to it's current terrain type. Planting grass just changes the current terrain type and if plowed it reverts to grass again.

Consider hand plowing and a chair as a great way to use up lots of hunger so that you can force feed yourself FEPs for stat increases -- Yes I am a glass is half-full kind of guy.

(note: it can revert even while crops are in the ground).

[Sever]

Is it possible to prevent plowed land from returning to its original state? I've seen several farms recently with perfect, solid tracts of farmland... unlike mine, which looks like a badly aged Swiss Cheese. How do I make my farm keep its plowed state?

That is probably due to them having recently plowed it, combined with the weird quirk of tiles not always refreshing to show that they have decayed. They will appear plowed but you can't plant on them, and they won't refresh unless you plow near them or some other odd quirk.