Which DLC Store Venue should I look at getting

Dang! I voted before I finished reading. Bohemian Garden comes with new harvestables but I don't think it comes with recipes although the fruit and nuts can be used in nectar making.

Edit to add: If you want new plants and recipes I suggest this.

Picked GG as well, the tractor is so much fun.

I like the greenhouse because of the building components. I never use the actual venue. I also really like the swift-grow gardening station (which can be bought separately and is on sale right now). I like a few of the decorative items that come with the venue - the farm fresh flowers, bucket of flowers and the vintage finds, lots of signs. They each add 8 points to the environmental value of a room.

I don't have GG but bought the tractor separately. Although I haven't used it yet I will the next time I play a farm situation.

I think the tractor is good for a farm but a greenhouse is better for a residential lot
https://i.imgur.com/5sBIFRW.jpg

or community garden lot/conservatory.
https://i.imgur.com/g1bxBad.jpg

I've also made a small sun room/Florida room attached to a house using the greenhouse windows and the square sunburst skylight that came with Roaring Heights. Couldn't find a picture right now. (If interested I can dig one up.)

I do like the greenhouse and bistro items, but if I had to choose between the three you listed, I’d pick Grandpa’s Grove. The tractor is fun for hay rides and is useful for when you have a huge garden, and it includes the orange trees.

The mention of the Bohemian Garden set is a good one too because it has so many new harvestables. Not only are they useful in nectar-making, but they are a perfect complement to your new bakery set with all the pies you can make with the baker’s station.

However, IDK if you have the Brunch at the Old Mill set? If not, that would be my preferred pick, because of the canning station. The tea set is also nice, you can fish in the water wheel, and the set also comes with cucumbers and corn.
The canning station is even better (with more options, recipes and fixes) if you use the Canning Station Overhaul mod from MTS. http://modthesims.info/d/580462/canning-station-overhaul-update-aug-2-2016.html

One of my Sim’s canning collections:

Which ever one is on sale next on the Daily Deals.

Did some checking on the SIMS3Store and listed all premium items in the sets along with their harvestables. It might help me to make a decision. And the canning station and the Swift-Gro Gardening station are looking quite interesting.

1. Grandpa’s Grove -tractor;
Harvestable: orange trees (comes with the tractor)

2. Bohemian Garden -
Harvestable: Strawberries,
Blueberries, Raspberries,
Blackberries, Peaches, Pears
Cocoa Beans for Chocolate

3. Business As Usual Bistro - It’s Business-Time Industrial Oven.
Harvestable: none
New Recipes: none
Opportunity: to create a food
service business

4. Stone’s Throw Greenhouse
Greenhouse build objects;
Swiftgro gardening station
Harvestable: Farm Fresh
Flowers, Sunflowers

5. Al Fresco Street Market
Humble Harvest Stands
Harvestable: Eggplant, Lemon
Tree

6. Brunch at the Old Mill
Grandma’s Canning Station
Harvestable: cucumber and
corn (decorative and harvestable)

Let me know if I’m missing any others.

This all seems like a tremendous amount of effort and analysis to me for something the OP is just going to keep blowing up anyway... (and I'm pretty sure he's not going to mind me pointing this out). >:) :p

"igazor;c-17269384" wrote:
This all seems like a tremendous amount of effort and analysis to me for something the OP is just going to keep blowing up anyway... (and I'm pretty sure he's not going to mind me pointing this out). >:) :p

Nope, I don’t mind at all. Well...after all @igazor you do happen to be right after all. Of course detonations usually happen when one of the Frio boys are on site example being when Jared Frio ends up showing up at said venue, makes an utter jerk out of himself so much so that the Watcher gets tired of him and ends up nailing him with a meteor for being a cranial reversion orifice. The other time is when there are recalcitrant sims that do not do what they’re supposed to do.

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Happy happy joy joy. :mrgreen: Watcher is good; Watcher is wise. :mrgreen:

"igazor;c-17269384" wrote:
This all seems like a tremendous amount of effort and analysis to me for something the OP is just going to keep blowing up anyway... (and I'm pretty sure he's not going to mind me pointing this out). >:) :p

:D

http://www.davintosh.com/images/laughs/wheres_the_kaboom.jpg

@Nikkei-Simmer — Just some slight corrections to your list:

1. Apologies if it was my previous post that gave the wrong impression; to clarify, I meant to say Grandpa’s Grove comes with the orange trees. AFAIK, the orange trees come with the venue, not with the tractor itself (if purchased separately).

2. On the Store page, the Bohemian Garden set lists 7 of the 8 harvestables that come with it—the 8th one not listed is the pecan tree.

4. The Greenhouse venue does not come with new harvestables (the flowers are a décor item and the PVZ Sunflower is an interactive object which produces collectible sunlight to use as fertilizer).

6. The Brunch at the Old Mill set includes 3 premium content items: Grandma’s Canning Station, The Old Miller Tea Time Tea Set and the Old Mill Water Wheel.

Good luck with your decision detonation plans! ;)

@starguru - I just finished a very long, grueling day at work and your Marvin the Martian pic made me laugh for about two minutes. So thanks, I needed that! :D