Favorite Fertilizer Option Please
I tend to use the "flowers" that I have the most of to fertilize my crops in the sims 4, but it gets a bit tedious to scroll through my sims huge list of possible fertilizers to find the flower I hav...
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@PugLove888 I agree... fertilizing is a pain. I have plenty of perfect plants that got there through care, bee hives, evolving as needed, and time.
@Psychotps True... but the bees are a bit of a pain also, especially with large gardens and several hives. I'd rather deal with them than worrying about fertilizing, though, if I have an area and enough plants to make it a good plan. (Sometimes I only have 1-3 plants and they're in the living room or similar. Then I will fertilize instead... sometimes.) Mostly I don't worry about it because I have many perfect plants in my gallery. I just download them. Fair enough in my book, as I'm the one who went through the pain to mature them! 😉
@Psychotpsyes, I like having bees but sometimes I don't have room for them, or at least enough of them. Or sometimes the bees are always enraged even if they don't have mites ! For those instances, I just prefer fertilizing by hand! And sometimes, for a Sim that is really all about gardening, I will do both! 🙂
@SheriGR, yes, you put in all the work, so you should reap the benefits, pun intended! :eahigh_file:- @PugLove888 Yea, bees do sting quite often, even when calm, but with the automatic fertilization, selling the honey, the temperature protection provided by the honey, using the bees to romance sims and find collectibles, they more than make up for a minor sting here and there.
- @SheriGR Your gardens are too large for bees? Really? Bees will fertilize a 10*10 grid and roughly 60 plants. If you have more than 60 plants or larger than a 10*10 grid, you must have an enormous garden.
I use gardening and beekeeping all the time and I've never had one so big it required TWO bee hives.
It can't be for money... two Dragonfruit plants will net $1000 a day. Why would you need a garden that large?@Psychotps I didn't need gardens that large. I had a few homes with a lot of plants (including flowers) of various types that I was splicing/grafting, developing, and experimenting with gardening (herbalist/florist) and gourmet cooking fo retail store sales. I get bored if there are not a lot of challenges going on. That is where I got my perfect plants for my gallery... I was doing it a lot - and for a lot of sims years.
In these lots I had the gardens spread around - basically 2 main areas of the yard and two rooms indoors on one lot, and in a huge greenhouse on the other lot. The huge greenhouse only had 2 beehives - the other lot had 4 (yes, one in each indoor room/greenhouse). These gardens required a lot of maintenance - and the beehives can be a bit high maintenance, depending on several factors. (Particularly since their maintenance was peripheral on my radar. But that's me.)
Btw... I think both households ended up millionaires, so it wasn't for the money! I also found that since I didn't have time to 'babysit' the bee relationships that heavily, I ended up feeling I spent a fair amount of time dealing with them per the benefits. I didn't ever experiment with using them for romance or collecting, and I never got the honey quality above 'nice' I think. I liked having them, but they were also a hassle in my game play style.
