I think pearl abyss should add a new kind of fence for farming, which costs the same as renting 10 strong fences, but has 100 spots for growing plants.. This would make it much easier to instantly see which plants needs pruning/harvesting, instead of going into each fence area, or checking the farming tab (which i myself never check). 

Also, it would make it alot easier to plant stuff.. right now, you have to plant a few plants in one fence, then close out of the menu, then go to the next fence, and plant a few plants again and such.. it would be much better if you could just do all that stuff at 1 spot. 

i think we should have the fences we have right now, aswell as the new big fence i suggested.. The bonus with having the big fence would be that you could plant all your stuff at once, but the drawback could be that you couldnt place such a big fence everywhere, because of the bigger area required.. if you wanted to farm other places then velia, or such, without big open areas, you would have to use the smaller fences.

I think that is a good idea.

Although placement could be an issue.  I met a lot of my character's farming requirements by placing them in the default location (Loggia Farm) but there are few spots that would allow such a huge fence.  Your choices would be limited.  It might be better, if they set aside a special spot for farming near villages or farms.  The mechanic would be akin to being a crop sharer.

For example; You go to Loggia farm and pay silver per month (like the mansion) , not CP for rent.  The farmer then allows you to use a preset area to farm your 100 crops.  Thus eliminating the need for placement of a fence and creating something to spend and sink more silver.  This could be limited to professional or artisan rank farmers, if you think it would stop players from renting fences with CP.  Personally I believe players would be more likely to do both types.  

It would be no simple mechanic to implement, even if they decided to just add a 100 slot fence. Don't expect to see it happen overnight.

I would like to be able to harvest all plants at once. I would also like saved planting layouts - that way, I wouldn't have to plant ONE plant at a time. It takes me like 30 minutes to harvest and then replant. If I had saved layouts to choose from with said plants in my inventory, then I could get a single farming session done in like 5 minutes.

Farming needs indeed a good rework. 
My 3 biggests griefs were: 

- Make a grid to help us align seeds and allow us to plant several seeds at once (ex: clic on squares in parcel, then select seed, then number of seeds).

- Create a seed storage (accessible from inventory) where seeds stack like in market. The higher the lifeskill, higher capacity for seeds. Atm magic seeds are a pain to manage. Or simply madke them stackable.
- allow us as many farms as we want if we have the contribution for it. Or better, untie it from CP and allow me to farm all day if i want.
- and now that you say it: making farms smaller or a bigger one. Even with 10 plants, it feels like i only filled a thid of the little master ones)

I wish they would give us the option to build a big garden with up to 100 Slots in the Mansion. Would look very cool and the Mansion would have more use. 

Would love to see farming improvements as well. One big thing for me is if they could create a mask underneath the farm so that it removes all grass. This can easily be done and I could achieve this effect in unreal engine in just 10 minutes. A farm should look nice and pretty with little mounds, not overtaken by random weeds.

Secondly, it should be possible to harvest items from the garden menu. Why? Because if you end up planting something in the center, it's really, really hard to harvest what you planted there since the garden menu takes priority. Just as well, perhaps if a plant is underneath where the garden menu is, new options appear to harvest etc...  But overall I think the entire system should be changed to perhaps a UI that pops up when you walk on top of your garden which appears at the side of the screen with growth progress etc...

2 minute Quick draft as an example:

* Mind you, I didn't really think this through so it's probably heavily flawed but I just want to point out that we don't have to be restricted to a popup circular menu.

Also I don't think there's a point to crops going up to 200% anymore, why not just keep it at max 100%? Maybe I'm missing something but it does seem like a dated mechanic that could be simplified. I know we can use it to level up but there could be something else to do instead of calling it 200% which may be especially confusing to new players.

tbh, they made those green parcels... they are ugly as fuck without stuff on it. We only have tulips and some ugly bushes :/

i don't like the idea of gathering through a menu as i like seeing and interacting. But yes, placement and weeds/trees make it harder to see. I just try to place all 2 or 10 in a corner and mouse gather.