@ra3rei I don't think that's cheating at all! It seems that a lot of players do that approach, with the insane Sim. My Sim (Henrietta) just had to spend a lot of time chatting on the computer until her gardening was high enough so she could talk to plants. Henrietta was nearly always happy--it just took us a really long time to complete the challenge. Henrietta didn't mind, for part of the experience, for her, was to learn to experience time in a different way, like her long lost great granduncle.