Some habitats require plants you cannot grow by placing seeds. After unlocking cooking, a salad strengthens Leafage so that it can create vegetation on stone, walls and water as well as ordinary grass.
Activate the correct meal effect
- Place a cutting board and prepare a salad. The first simple salad can be made with two leaves.
- Eat the salad yourself. Giving it to another Pokémon does not strengthen your move.
- Select Leafage and check that its temporary food effect is active before starting the habitat.
Choose the surface before using the move
For moss, aim at a suitable stone floor or rock surface. For climbing vines, face a suitable vertical wall. For duckweed, aim at the water surface. The same powered move gives different results according to the surface you target; using it on nearby ordinary soil will simply make grass.
Create the required patches inside the habitat area and check the game's recognition message. For example, moss beside hot-spring water is used for Mossy hot spring. Decorative green blocks are not a substitute for actual moss when the requirement specifically asks for the plant.
If the expected plant does not appear
Check the food effect, your aim and the surface. A salad's yellow energy can run out even though the move itself remains available. Eat another salad to restore that effect, then test on one clear patch before covering a large area. A meal for a different ability does not replace the salad needed for Leafage.
