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MadameNordica
Seasoned 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 missing something.

  • CGrant56's avatar
    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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  • PugLove888's avatar
    PugLove888
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago

    @CGrant56, thanks for mentioning the Gardening Bots!!! 🙌  How could I forget them! 🤭 (Granted, I only have one household with one, but I've been using it extensively! 😃 ) 

    @SheriGRand @RandomBuzziness , add the Gardening Bot to the list that I need to have all the gardener options on my lot at the same time! 😃

  • SheriGR's avatar
    SheriGR
    Hero
    6 years ago

    @RandomBuzziness @PugLove888 @CGrant56 Actually, my favorite build for doing a huge garden was the one where I made a ginormous greenhouse with a 2nd floor that had Herbalist and Botanist rooms, Florist tables on the main floor, and a sunken room in the middle with the floor removed and the bee hives, plants planted directly in the ground, and sprinklers all upgraded to not puddle and be unbreakable. Then my huge gardener household could just be sent out to tend the bee hives and super-sell (man, I love super-sell!!!), because Patchy and the Butler usually had most of the work done already, and just to pick up any slack I had a Gardener hired also (though that was during the bug where they wouldn't usually come/be hirable). I love those sprinklers once upgraded!!