I'm starting up my wheat farming again, but I need a whole lot of lily pads to cover the water! I need most likely a half chest/full chest (single chest) of them! I'm not trying to pay too much and if you'd like I could throw in some hay bales-- I'm making them by the chest full (Those will be on sale soon for one thousand rupees each chest! O: ).
All those lily pads? Try carpet to cover the water. Much cheaper. Or are you trying to get that fancy "look" that comes with lily pads?
Ooh I've yet to fully experiment with carpet, I'd never thought it would cover water! To be honest, I despise the way lily pads do not like to stay.. uniform.
Oh mys, it's a bit longer to do but that's fascinating. Ahh, carpeting, amazing floors, cheap and revealing walls/fences, and now even poolcoverings.