Which is better?

Mushroom comes out ahead on base value, but the right pick depends on your goal — read both and decide.

Bamboo: The best early-game value-per-Sheckle seed in the game. Cheap to buy, grows fast, and holds surprisingly high weights — the perfect crop to farm mutations on while you build a bankroll.

Mushroom: The highest base-value crop in Grow a Garden 2 and the classic early-to-mid income spike. A single mushroom out-earns almost everything cheaper, which makes it the crop most new players save their first big Sheckle pile for.