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litabelaqua

How is everyone getting on with the gardening? Has anyone spliced anything yet or created a cow plant? I understand you have to splice a dragonfruit and a snapdragon. Ive found snapdragon but not dragon fruit. What level do you have to be be able to splice?

Also, is there a gardener to hire? I looked under services and nothing there only maid.

LilgirlShadow

I gardener would be nice! It kinda seems like it take a while to take care of your plants in this one to me.

aureliaromae

Nope, just trying to figure out the planters, and I did get her to plant an apple out in the yard, so apparently that is possible. Probably not a gardener yet either, they never did have an official one in sims 3 did they?

GummiBearx

I am such a noob when it comes to gardening, lol. I've only been planting herbs for her to use in her meals. I reallyyyy want a cowplant though.

litabelaqua

The planters are expensive and given that you can plant direct into the ground I wonder if there is a benefit to using them. They look nice though. I want to thoroughly explore gardening and collecting, but as lilgirl says gardening takes too much time sstill. Harvesting is much quicker though but watering and weeding takes an age

litabelaqua

GummiBearx wrote: »

I am such a noob when it comes to gardening, lol. I've only been planting herbs for her to use in her meals. I reallyyyy want a cowplant though.

I really need to track down the dragonfruit to make a cowplant!

Writin_Reg

I heard the dragon fruit may be in the hidden Grotto. I saw some simmers say that over on facebook last night - talking among themselves. But did not go looking for any of the hidden lots yet. Been having too much fun just playing. Besides my sims has just started gardening a few flowers and analyzing plants with the microscope. It took him a while to save up for that. Maybe this everning when I play I will go looking for those kind of things.

Stormkeep

Grafting is awesome. Too many plants makes it hard for your sim to have time to take care of it, so grafting helps because you can make one plant product more than one type of produce. My sim went from having to spend half the day on the garden to only a couple sim hours each day once I unlocked grafting (I made every plant into 3-4 types, reducing the garden size to 33% of what it was).

Grafting is also handier for getting the plants that are only available out in the world because you can take a clipping from them home to graft to your existing plants, instead of having to wait until they are harvestable. (you do still have to wait until they are grown enough to be able to get a clipping from though).

Carl's Sims site has a nice write-up on gardening in the game for those interested in all kinds of nuts and bolts details. http://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/skills/gardening/

aureliaromae

Writin_Reg wrote: »

I heard the dragon fruit may be in the hidden Grotto. I saw some simmers say that over on facebook last night - talking among themselves. But did not go looking for any of the hidden lots yet.

So much stuff to find out about....lots of googling today!

Alourra

Is it possible to live off of gardening without a career? I didn't have much time to play, but it didn't look like there was a gardening related career or self-employment.

lynny

Alourra wrote: »

Is it possible to live off of gardening without a career? I didn't have much time to play, but it didn't look like there was a gardening related career or self-employment.

I'm going to explore this option today, I'll report back later this evening.

litabelaqua

ok this is weird, a friend walked by so my sim called him in, they chatted in the kitchen then I remembered she was supposed to weed the flowers so I clicked on a plant to weed it. Instead of going outside my sim then got down on her knees and started weeding the kitchen floor so that she could continue to chat to her friend. Somehow I don't think that's supposed to happen lol

lynny

litabelaqua wrote: »

ok this is weird, a friend walked by so my sim called him in, they chatted in the kitchen then I remembered she was supposed to weed the flowers so I clicked on a plant to weed it. Instead of going outside my sim then got down on her knees and started weeding the kitchen floor so that she could continue to chat to her friend. Somehow I don't think that's supposed to happen lol

Funny thing about this is in the first house we rented years ago, we actually had grass coming up from the floor in the bedroom (in one of the corners). Apparently we had a crack in the foundation.

litabelaqua

Alourra wrote: »

Is it possible to live off of gardening without a career? I didn't have much time to play, but it didn't look like there was a gardening related career or self-employment.

I have found that realistically if you want to concentrate on gardening then your sim wont have time to work. My sim grows her plants and makes a bit of money from painting to give her some income. I don't think she is going to get rich anytime soon but I think she will be very happy!

Sapphire_Sim16

Is there a way to sell your harvestables? I don't want her to have a job but they still need money lol.

Stormkeep

@Sapphire_Sim16, you can sell your harvestables by dragging them to the 'sell' section on the sim inventory. Once your plants are very high quality you can make quite a bit of money this way.

@litabelaqua, my sim started in the culinarian career at the same time as gardening. I was able to manage a garden with 9 plants and still do all of the career required stuff too, but he had time for much other stuff ONLY on his days off (which is 3 days out of 7 per week). I originally tried a larger garden and after about a week of trying to keep up with it I trimmed it back a little. With Grafting it's much easier now, as I indicated above.

jobug1015

I think you just sell from inventory, correct me though if that's wrong. I have a question, I've just started gardening, does the quality improve like in TS3? So far all I've gotten are normal plants.

Maclimes

litabelaqua wrote: »

The planters are expensive and given that you can plant direct into the ground I wonder if there is a benefit to using them. They look nice though. I want to thoroughly explore gardening and collecting, but as lilgirl says gardening takes too much time sstill. Harvesting is much quicker though but watering and weeding takes an age

I think planters will become more valuable and useful when we get a "Night Life/Downtown" style expansion. When living in an upper-floor apartment with no yard, it might be handy to have your own tomato plant to keep making fresh, free Autumn Salads.

lynny

One thing I've noticed I don't like about gardening is there is no way to plant several things at once, like in Sims 3. You have to put the seed on the ground, then individually plant each thing. I don't know why they thought that was a good idea.

simmey1

Gosh no! I am a total noobie. Only have a few veggies growing right now. But I love gardening ( only in the sims ..lol). In the sims 2 I had a sim with an amazing garden.

Maclimes

lynny wrote: »

One thing I've noticed I don't like about gardening is there is no way to plant several things at once, like in Sims 3. You have to put the seed on the ground, then individually plant each thing. I don't know why they thought that was a good idea.

That's not actually true. Place all the seeds down first, and then click on one of them and click "Plant". The Sim will proceed to auto-plant all the others (just like water and weed).

catmando830

LilgirlShadow wrote: »

I gardener would be nice! It kinda seems like it take a while to take care of your plants in this one to me.

Didn't TS2 have the option to hire a gardener - that was a plus - would be nice to have that option

Sapphire_Sim16

@Jobug1015 you get the option to evolve your plants which will increase their quality. Idk if their are other ways to increase quality because she is only level 2 or 3, I forgot.

jobug1015

Thanks so much! I really like gardening in TS3, I hope to master it soon!!

litabelaqua

ooooohh! what have we here?

Evalen

I have sold my sims plants, my sims have never worked In Sims 3, so I don't want them to work in Sims 4, they are doing pretty good, they are a test sims. I have not put my Generation Sims in yet. Still testing things. I have played for about 3 hours this morning, it is so addictive I can't get away. I had my sim harvest some apples, does anyone know how to get them to eat the apples or can they?