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Ziafar
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I know how to plant giant pumpkins but it seems that medium and small pumpins are required for some recipies. Where do I find the seeds for these?
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Medium: If you’ve taken decent care of your oversized crop, you’ll end up with two medium-sized crops in one garden plot. These aren’t great contenders for the Finchwick Fair, either, but can be sold for more simoleons than the small crops and are useful for cooking a variety of recipes.
Large: If you’ve taken impeccable care of your oversized crop, you’ll end up with one giant crop in your garden plot. These crops aren’t great for canning or cooking but sell for a lot of simoleons and have the potential to win you ribbons and other prizes at the Finchwick Fair.
https://simscommunity.info/2021/07/26/the-sims-4-cottage-living-oversized-crops-guide/
The oversized pumpkins seem to be borked - after harvesting them, I've been unable to can them. When I select canning and pumpkin, the oversized version is greyed out because I haven't got one in my inventory. (My pumpkin comes out 'perfect' quality, like all of my oversized crops, but the only thing I can do with it is turn it into an ornamental doorstop.)
I can’t confirm at the moment whether oversized pumpkins can be used in recipes, that may be working as intended according to the descriptions posted upthread. But it also says they’re better to win prizes at the fair and that’s a bunch of bologna.
Cheaper produce (not the new types of crops - those are always a good value) can be made into friendly animal treats and sold the same way. One mushroom worth 2 simoleons becomes a treat worth 21 simoleons with a good haggle.
But canning is extremely lucrative. I don’t have numbers off the top of my head but you can use a small crop and get 3 cans out of it which sell for a couple hundred or so each.
My sims grew so much, their fields are empty right now. They spent the winter canning and could do that forever with what they have and never run out of money.
Just use the oversized packet. Like what was stated before you'll have several pumpkins waiting. Ignore the optimize for large crop option, which has your Sim clear out all but one or two plants. Voila.
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You mean 'encourage crop growth', which my Sim always does? I'll give that a try. I still can't use the oversized pumpkin for canning - whether I put it in the refrigerator or in my Sim's inventory, when I hover over the pumpkin canning options, it tells me there is no oversized pumpkin available. The other giant plants can be canned just fine - it's only the pumpkin that doesn't seem to work.
I'm not sure if this is the exact issue that you are experiencing, but there is currently a known bug that only orange pumpkins can be canned:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-CoL-Can-only-make-Pumpkin-Conserve-from-orange-pumpkins/m-p/10582282#M197173
Omg is that the problem?? I had a white oversized pumpkin and I could not can it. I was getting annoyed. Thank you for letting us know about this issue.
Other ingredients yield like 4-6 per day per plant when in season. And you can fit 4 plants in a garden plot, so 16-24 harvestables per plot per day.
The lettuce is one of those potentially big crops, so maximum 4 harvestables per plot per... year?
And you need a whole lettuce to make 1 portion of garden salad. Which makes garden salad suddenly a very precious commodity.
Am I missing something or is this very unbalanced?
That's probably the bug - all my pumpkins turn out white or green or something in between. Now, I'm motivated - my Sims are going to grow an orange pumpkin if I have to cover the lot in pumpkin patches. (Bugs aren't annoyances, they're challenges!)
I’ve learned to can the oversized produce - you’ll get so much more out of it! With lettuce, for example, you need 1 (of ANY size) to make 1 serving of garden salad (along with a tomato). But you can turn it into lettuce conserve and it’s exactly the same thing, only you get more jars out of it, depending on your size of lettuce.
Small - 2 jars
Medium - 5 jars
Oversized- 12 jars
Knowing this, no one would use an oversized lettuce on a single garden salad when you can get 12 jars out of it, and it takes 2 jars of lettuce to make 4 or 8 servings which means you have the potential to make 48 servings of garden salad, provided you also have 12 tomatoes (or 4, really- because you can triple your tomatoes by canning those, too, and tomato sauce is usable in garden salad - mmmmm! 🥴)
IRL, lettuce conserve sounds gross, but hey. I don’t have to eat it!
I did get my orange pumpkins, and I was finally able to make pumpkin conserve. I'm extremely pleased about this. (I sold my useless white gourds to the grocery stall. She doesn't care, she'll just pass them on in her 'mystery boxes'. I suspect they're like the fruitcake that just keeps giving.
It seems pretty weird to me, too, but you know, colonial Americans used to preserve full heads of lettuce in brine. At Monticello, they served brined Tennis Ball lettuce.