Every day you can hit the rocks around your town for iron nugget drops. Some rocks might be inaccessible across rivers, but you should have something like four accessible.
To maximize your return on these rocks, you need to strike them with an axe or shovel FAST. The problem is that you'll recoil back after striking the rock. The solution is to place two holes behind you, such that when you recoil backwards, the holes propel you forward so you can strike the rock eight times in quick succession.
This will let you maximize your iron yield.
For more iron, you can also travel to other towns to hit their rocks (but you'll need to be a "best friend" of the host to get shovel permissions) or find iron nuggets in gifts. The Nook Miles Ticket (2,000 miles) will bring you to a generated island, but I haven't found those islands particularly more likely to have rocks, though you might find some. Hitting your town's rocks each day is your best bet for your time/money.
![two holes](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fqPsK.png)
image from Polygon
The game does not go into exact detail how to breed new flowers, but this guide has detailed how to do it.
Basically, in a grid of 3x3, arrange your flowers in an 'X-shape'. Keeping a space empty between flowers is important - this is where the newly bred flower will appear.
F - F
- F -
F - F
Where 'F' is a flower, and '-' is an empty space.
Generally, possible combinations are made up out of basic color mixing. If the upper two flowers are Red and White, the most likely flower to be bred in the empty space between them will be pink.
It seems that the possible combinations are 'endless'. At the bottom of the guide I linked above, there's a list of more exotic or adventurous combinations.
It should also be noted that not all flower types can be bred:
- Carnations: Breed white.
- Cosmos: Breed pink, orange and black.
- Dandelions: Can't breed.
- Jacob's Ladder: Can't breed.
- Lilies: Breed pink, orange and black.
- Pansies: Breed orange, blue, red (special), purple, orange (special)
- Roses: Breed pink, purple, orange, black, red (special), blue and gold
- Tulips: Breed pink, orange, black, purple.
- Violets: Breed pink.
Possible color combinations:
- Pink: White + Red
- Yellow: Red + Orange
- White: Yellow + Purple
- Black: Red + Red
And the more 'adventurous' combinations:
- Black Cosmos: Orange + Orange
- Blue Pansies: White + White
- Special Red Pansies: Blue + Red
- Purple Pansies: Red Special + Red Special / Orange Special + Orange Special
- Special Orange Pansies: Blue + Orange
- Pink Roses: Red + Red
- Purple Roses: White + White
- Special Red Roses: Orange + Purple
- Blue Roses: Red Special + Red Special
- Gold Roses: Dried Black Rose + Gold Watering Can
Below is a screenshot of how to plant the flowers:
![How to plant the flowers](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4xxhF.png)
Source(s): newsweek.com
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I had a similar problem. Earlier in the game when it rained almost every day (and I had an islander obsessed with watering everything) flowers took a large portion of my island. Here's how I cleaned it up in a decent amount of time:
It still took about half a day to clean everything up.... but it was doable, put on a podcast/movie marathon/netflix/etc. and just go at it.
Something else you can do is employ "best friends", as they are also allowed to dig up things. So gather some friends, and make an event out of it (prizes for most dug, payment of bells/nook mile tickets/other stuff).
One more tip to prevent the flower outbreak. Make a design pattern that is just a full grid of transparency, you can place this to surround the flowers. They won't spread, and it still looks like normal ground. You can also use construction to add various paths... as long as it isn't plain ground flowers won't spread.