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Fellow Gardeners, Aaron need some advice.
PenguinFoop
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Planters, planters and yes, even more planters. The patio is becoming a maze, the yard is getting so cluttered.
So Aaron got to thinking, he could at least splice all seasonably related plants that are out of season onto one year round plant (like Sage, I think).
The pros:
The cons:
The lot is too small for a full blown greenhouse to accommodate all of these plants so that's not an option.
I could reduce the out of seasons down to one plant per type, but that could still take a lot of space.
So what are your suggestions?
Also, how many of each plant type do you keep?
I have four of each type of the plants I've collected so far. In the past, I've kept only one type of each plant but with the §1,000,000 challenge, I don't want to limit Aaron too much.
So Aaron got to thinking, he could at least splice all seasonably related plants that are out of season onto one year round plant (like Sage, I think).
The pros:
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Clear up patio space
Less time gardening on sheltered plants
The cons:
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less income per plant
The lot is too small for a full blown greenhouse to accommodate all of these plants so that's not an option.
I could reduce the out of seasons down to one plant per type, but that could still take a lot of space.
So what are your suggestions?
Also, how many of each plant type do you keep?
I have four of each type of the plants I've collected so far. In the past, I've kept only one type of each plant but with the §1,000,000 challenge, I don't want to limit Aaron too much.
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He and Malcolm never eat the plants and even though Malcolm loves flower arranging, he just buys what he needs...come to think of it, he's so spoiled that it only now occurs to him that he should be using higher quality plants for his arrangements. Sometimes he's such a dunder-head.
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Planters are a bit pricey, but my sims can build them quite cheaply using the tool table once they get up a few levels. I don't know which packs you might need to have the option to build a planter.
If I'm trying to generate cash I hunt for flowers to plant, concentrating on the ones that make the most cash. In the game I'm playing now Sammy got lucky and found roses in Willow Creek. They make more money than daisies, for sure. Once he was over 10k I let him go to Hensford on Bagley to buy 1 of any likely flowers or plants.
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You could splice the plants so you could have a different plant growing every season. Personally, I like it when my sims can enjoy their time off from gardening during the winter. I have a sim that grows indoors a single dragon fruit plant for some extra money. That's the only gardening she does.
My thinking on splicing is that you splice out of season plants and keep them inside. When the season is about to change, you then plant those fruits outside and repeat for each season. I hope that makes sense.
The scarecrow does do something, even if you cannot rely upon him.
I am really starting to enjoy following the journey of Aaron. I hope you keep posting!
I posted some suspicious activity in the §1,000,000 challenge thread. Something strange is happening.
I just had my child plant some mushrooms so that she can use them to practice cooking for free on the grill, so she can gain enough skill to cook fish on the grill. The campfire takes too long and she gets burned too often. Mushrooms are cheap and that is both good and bad. Keeping a large stockpile of them in your inventory hardly raises your taxes, but they are almost useless to sell for a profit.
With my teens, I found that I gained skills and completed aspirations quicker, when I had almost no bills. I only started trying to collect money after my teen was a supersim. Being housepoor gets in the way of skillbuilding.
@Katofhyrule12 if you have enough satisfaction points get the "free services" reward trait. You can then hire a scheduled gardener for 0 simoleons. They'll take care of watering, weeding, etc (except weekends) & all you need to pretty much do is harvest and evolve plants.
That's a good point! And since Aaron is now level 10 in gardening, it will free him up to pursue other interests. But he really does enjoy gardening too. Also, Patchy the Scarecrow maintains the outside garden once you befriend.
Interesting! I did not think of that. I have used Patchy, but I think owning him raised my taxes. Same for the bird house and rabbits. Children cannot spray for bugs, so the plants die rather quickly. A gardener hired with free services sounds perfect!
@brizgal I'll try raising the walls before I plant next time. The issue I had a couple of years ago was they would not germinate indoors. I had to move the planter outside in order to actually plant the tree. once it had started growing I moved it indoors. Now that I am really thinking about it, I did have to raise the walls - thanks for the reminder!
First, my sims often forget to harvest the plants, meaning the gardener often attempt to plant seeds where there is no room.
Second, sims can even plant seeds from their inventories in the gardens of other households. Rather than going to a vacation destination to harvest some seeds, you might rely on other sims to plant some seeds from vacation worlds in your garden.
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