your garden or trees grow. these steps can help you determine if your plant is ready to harvest or gather. each of the steps means something different for each plant and fungus, every plant is unique, including the resources you can gather of harvest from each of them. if you attempt to gather from a plant too early, you may not get the full amount of resources.
gathering is a destructive process, meaning you will attempt to gather everything from the plant. some vegetables and fruits require this to get the edible portion, such as potatoes or carrots.
harvesting a plant will only attempt to get what will keep the plant alive 