I FINALLY decide to work a farm...

"mw1525;c-18017344" wrote:
@Karritz - You have a very active and large game! I love the look of your greenhouse! Out of curiosity, how do you manage all of the produce your garden yields? I find my Sim's stockpile inventories fills up very fast and I have nowhere near the number of plants you've shown.

When it comes to harvesting my larger gardens, I find the 'Harvester' which is created on the Inventor's workbench to be an adequate tool for the job. Although, personally I prefer for my Sims to do manual work the old-fashioned way by using their hands. While I do own the tractor, I haven't found a real use for it (yet). Maybe it will become a holiday 'hay ride' feature at my winter holiday events.

I tend to keep the harvestables but I've learned to check all inventories of sims who have been gardening. Every so often, especially when I have a lot of sims in the game, I start at the top of the portraits on the left of the screen and go through each sim. I check each one for their status of lifetime happiness points and inventory. Plus a few other things depending on the game. If they have any harvestables in their inventory I move them out of there.

I have a variety of ways to move the harvestables and collected items out of sim inventories.
1. Sell them - that's something I rarely do (I do it only if my sim needs simoleans or I've got more harvestables than I can cope with.)
2. move them to chests. I will often have several chests. I try to sort the items so they all go into the chest designated for their type of thing.
Examples of the way I may sort the items from sims inventories into chests include: fish; grapes or produce I might use for nectar making if I have them making nectar; seeds; tomb objects (possibly I'll have a chest for each of the worlds that have tombs).
I have lots of chest like objects that people have made and I've added to my game. Or I might buy chests from one or more of the WA worlds.
I add an insect cabinet and one of the larger cabinets from Supernatural and add all insects to the insect case; and tell sims to add all gems and metals, and elixirs to the other Supernatural cabinet. I might add mushrooms and other produce that is used for elixir making to the supernatural cabinets too.

I find the tractor is dangerous as their inventories fill up so fast you can be caught out and lose the tractor or the game can slow down to a point where nothing much is happening. Using the green dragon to harvest has a similar problem. If you've forgotten to check inventories and the tractor ends up in the garden instead of its proper parking spot then that is a sign you sim's inventory needs emptying. Same for the green dragon, if it resets and reappears near the gate to the lot then the sim's inventory is probably overfull of harvestables.

I rarely add produce to the fridge but if I use the gardening service (from a mod) they will put the harvestables in the fridge at the end of the day.

If my sims need simoleans I use humble harvest stands that I have placed at the greenhouse or in other parts of the world. I find they earn more from sales if I use the hh stands.