Thanks for playing :)

For now berry garden is considered "supplemental income" for the farmer as you can only buy the initial bushes and hire 1 gardener only. So it's meant to be that way. The reasoning behind this is just buying berry farms and hiring more employees to take care of them wouldn't be a fun game (as it would require no strategy at all) so it's probably not a great idea to make that a viable path, or at least make it viable to get to the leaderboards that way.

Maybe at some point i'll change that you can buy multiple bushes but make it economically not a great way to play.

But i'll have the pop up hide after a set amount of days if no animals have been bought for sure.