Advice for beginner?

Hi all,

So I just got this game, only a couple hours in so far & really enjoying it! I seem to be having a problem though with earning enough cashews to buy any new weapons, or anything else for that matter. I think the highest I've gotten so far was dying to season 3 boss, which I only made it to as I got lucky with my crops & was able to afford 1 gun. Usually I'll make it to first seasons boss, or the second season if I'm lucky.

So far I've been trying to explore desert during the day, & farming at night. I also try to make 4 crops in to a mega crop as often as my fertilizer amount allows. I place turrets at my farm plot edges & grab farm animals when I find them. I also grab gardening plots from the worm whenever he visits.

Is there anything else I should be trying to do to make cashews easier? Most runs when I finish my first day I've only earned around 40 - 70 cashews, & by day 2 I've usually only got between 100 - 250. Usually I find I've run out of enough fertilizer to combine my crops, but maybe I'm just placing my fertilizer wrong as I'm playing on controller on my PS5.

Also how can I tell when I've cleared the first desert biome? It's hard to tell & I'm never sure if I've missed a camp or two, or if it's fully cleared.

Any advice appreciated, thank you!!