The Watsons start out in a challenging spot. They have 27k on hand in savings, but they have a giant lot set up as a farm, their bills are 5k a week, Thomas is farming full-time and Rahmi is a low-lev...
The large vegetables are coming along nicely too. This was one thing I'd been wondering about after Week 1, whether the large vegetables are worth the space they take up as well as the fertilizer I put into them from the animal sheds. Is it more cost-effective to grow the large vegetables, or to grow regular crops there and sell the fertilizers?
The people are growing too. Rashidah got into the Biology distinguished degree. It was the only distinguished degree she got into. I guess the gardening skill helped! She's off to college and she wants to come home and become a farmer too when she grows up.
Either Rahul is going to college too, or else he just missed Rashidah too much
Imra had the idea to start growing flowers in the garden alongside the vegetables. Their neighborhood has a little garden where she was able to harvest some roses, snapdragons, and tulips to plant. https://i.postimg.cc/Kc3R0rmJ/06-village-garden-flowers.png
Caring for chickens can be sad too, when they get older and have to be sold or traded for meat... https://i.postimg.cc/V6rLHmPd/sold-chicken.png (This dialog is actually from before Imra's birthday, hence the old name and pronouns)
On Love Day, Mom and Dad managed to get some time to themselves for a date.
Oh! They get a bonus from the NAPs! I think this was Green Gardening and Upcycling Initiative. (They have a home recycler to cope with my restriction on selling into the void-- anything that can't be used or sold at a stand gets recycled) https://i.postimg.cc/cJJJwfD7/nap-bonus.png
Well that's pretty cool. This is a big difference from the 5k and change that they had to pay before.
Let's say we had a normal crop there instead, selling for 4 simoleons an item. We'd have 4 plants on the garden patch, giving 4 items per day for 5 days. That's 320 simoleons. Then if we also kept one regular and one super fertilizer instead of putting them into the oversized vegetables, we'd have another 199 simoleons. It's a bit of a gamble how much the oversized vegetables sell for, but do we have any that total over 519 simoleons? https://i.postimg.cc/hvV4csjn/total-oversized.png
We do! Two out of the four, by just a bit. However, the other two sold for really far under that mark. So on the whole, we would have been better off growing basic vegetables on those plots. I think we'll carry on with maybe one oversized vegetable per season to use as ingredients, but otherwise, concentrate on growing regular crops. Especially flowers, in seasons where we can grow more expensive flowers. We only had 2 days' worth of flower harvest in here, and it really changed things.
1. the NAPs (kinda by accident, I really didn't remember that they had a financial impact on bills) 2. Flowers, even the basics harvested from the neighborhood, sell for way more than vegetables.
