Gardening - what do you plant?
In this game, I started looking into gardening after I had been playing already for quite some time. Which may be a bit surprising, given I had been playing quite a few sims in the science career, whe...
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All my sims learn gardening as soon as they become teens. Since I started using Retuner to stop autonomous playing with the sprinkler, most of my sims have the Loves the Outdoors trait and will immediately roll wishes to learn gardening on aging up. I start by having them water the plants before school which is much faster than harvesting and less draining on the hygiene bar. Because my sim kids go to Scouts they get a head start on the gardening skill and reach level 3 on watering their first plant. Once they unlock the gardening skill from Scouts they can also fertilize before school - another fast task which increases skill level quickly.
Sims that I play until death all master gardening, cooking and fishing in their lifetime because I want my sims to eat perfect quality meals for the best moodlet. These days my sims usually start out with a house that already has a few plants in the garden because I don't play a long lifespan and I want them eating good meals right out of the gate! Although the house comes with a small garden, my sims start out by planting the basics - lettuce (autumn salad), apples and grapes (pancakes), tomatoes (ratatouille and spaghetti). As their cooking skill increases alongside the gardening skill they add the other plants for meal preparation.
My sims mostly grow base game plants. They only grow WA grapes if a sim in the household makes nectar but I do that less and less these days. I don't see the point in the herbs and coffee that come with University so rarely bother with them. Occasionally my sims will find seeds (sims that garden often roll wishes to find seeds) for plants from other EPs/Store sets and I might have them add them to the garden if they seem useful. The berries that come with Bohemian Garden are good for a change from apple pancakes :D Since adding Supernatural recently I have added mushrooms and chili to the garden because I like the look of the recipes that come with the EP.
My sims only grow life fruit and death flowers when they roll the wish to do so once they have reached the levels required. I don't allow my sims to hold death flowers or eat life fruit because I don't want them prolonging their lives when I have a new generation waiting in the wings. I usually only have one sim per generation accept the opportunity chain to grow eggs/cheese, then steak/patties.
Edit to add: I don't have Seasons installed so gardening is done outdoors.
Sims that I play until death all master gardening, cooking and fishing in their lifetime because I want my sims to eat perfect quality meals for the best moodlet. These days my sims usually start out with a house that already has a few plants in the garden because I don't play a long lifespan and I want them eating good meals right out of the gate! Although the house comes with a small garden, my sims start out by planting the basics - lettuce (autumn salad), apples and grapes (pancakes), tomatoes (ratatouille and spaghetti). As their cooking skill increases alongside the gardening skill they add the other plants for meal preparation.
My sims mostly grow base game plants. They only grow WA grapes if a sim in the household makes nectar but I do that less and less these days. I don't see the point in the herbs and coffee that come with University so rarely bother with them. Occasionally my sims will find seeds (sims that garden often roll wishes to find seeds) for plants from other EPs/Store sets and I might have them add them to the garden if they seem useful. The berries that come with Bohemian Garden are good for a change from apple pancakes :D Since adding Supernatural recently I have added mushrooms and chili to the garden because I like the look of the recipes that come with the EP.
My sims only grow life fruit and death flowers when they roll the wish to do so once they have reached the levels required. I don't allow my sims to hold death flowers or eat life fruit because I don't want them prolonging their lives when I have a new generation waiting in the wings. I usually only have one sim per generation accept the opportunity chain to grow eggs/cheese, then steak/patties.
Edit to add: I don't have Seasons installed so gardening is done outdoors.
