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MadameNordica
Rising Ace
6 years ago
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Community Gardens will not allow harvesting

I cannot harvest from any community garden. I thought maybe it was because I had no gardening skill yet, but I developed some and still cannot harvest. Please advise if this is a bug or if I'm just m...
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    CGrant56
    6 years ago

    I'd like to add just one thing and that is, it depends on how "developed" the community gardens are.  When you start a new game, all the plants in the world including the community gardens in Oasis Springs and Willow Creek and Granite falls have to grow and bloom so to speak before you can harvest from them.  So it takes spending a lot time in those areas wherever they are before you can harvest the first time.  It takes trees a lot longer than the vegetable and flower plants to reach maturity but if I remember right, it can take two days or so before the vegetables and flowers and twice that for the trees.  So it pays off to spend several full days roaming those areas to get the plants to mature and bear fruit the first time and keep coming back until all the plants have reached maturity.  Once that happens, then you only have to get there before 5 AM as @PugLove888 , @EuphorialQueen and @RandomBuzziness have already said.  The same applies to all worlds including Sixam which came with GTW.  I have found that the tentacle tree takes the most time of all the other plants to bloom, grow and bear fruit since it always goes back to a pile of dirt when the season in which it bears fruit ends and moves on the next with Seasons installed.  The coconut tree that came in IL is almost as bad since it does the same thing but appears to grow back a bit faster.

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CGrant56
Hero+
6 years ago

@PugLove888  Maybe it's another seasons length thing, but what I see is most plants, once they grow up don't drop back to a pile of dirt.  If they go out of season, they just go dormant by changing to a darker color.  Or at least that's what I seem to remember anyway.  Maybe it's just the trees or maybe just some plants in some worlds of places.  I know though, when I last went to Sylvan Glade (snapdragons, cherries, strawberries, mushrooms and maybe pears) earlier this week that all the plants that were out of season were dormant but stayed at full size because they had the darker color and the mushrooms looked like they do just before they bear.  But at this point, I'm starting to get confused and I am going to go back in game just to check what is actually happening.  It's mid spring in my save right now in Willow Creek in the zone where the Goth place is and all the bearing plants are giving their fruit but I think there are one or two that aren't so I have something to check.  

BTW, Tiny living?  You like?  I got it but haven't messed around with it yet.  Can't wait to see what happens with the murphy bed after I read all about the death thing going on with it over at the main site. LOL  @SheriGR told me what happened to her too.  So this I gotta see!

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RandomBuzziness
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago

@CGrant56 I will love my children in all other ways, but in this I will pulverize them to a pulp!

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I always garden outdoors & my plants do revert back into a pile of dirt as soon as they become out of season. Most trees won't disappear but they will change appearance with the seasons whether they are in-season or not. Like pear trees look like death in the winter but still grow fruit. Crazy, eh? Many of my other winter plants are like this as well. I still love outdoor gardening all the same :D

@PugLove888 Your nieces and nephews are right, you are cool :D Also, I love your tip from yesterday about the Garden Gnomes club basically doing a free gardening service. Give your four-legged children hugs for me =^-^=

@EuphorialQueen That was my thinking when I asked if there were harvestables available in the community garden. You explained the new gardening overhaul changes much better than I could have done so thanks for that! :D My Sim is too lazy to be anywhere before 5 am so if there's something on a lot that she really wants, she'll just sleep there overnight in her tent xD

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    CGrant56
    Hero+
    6 years ago

    @PugLove888  You and @RandomBuzziness are 100% right and I was mistaken on the plants reverting back to dirt piles so I'm eating a bit of crow atm.  I went back in to my game and played Osage Manor (the one catty corner across from the Goths) in Willow Creek in the mid spring for a while trying to get another sugar skull and checked the whole area.  All the bearing plants in that zone are mature but show the darker dull color except one, lilies and those are dirt piles.   I checked my notes and those bear in the summer.  But I'm also thinking that it might be just how I play sometimes that may have given me the idea that they didn't.  Regardless, all the ground type plants do go back to dirt piles when out of season.

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