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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@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.
@Psychotps, I don't even need the temperature protection, as i've never had a Sim die from temperature. (Except the one where I was testing something for someone and I had my Sim die on purpose, but that is antoher matter, since eating honey would have messed up what I was trying to test!)
I also don't use the bees that much to have them find collectables, unless the weather is really bad. And I've never used them for romance since in real life this would put me in any mood but romantic! 😃
For me I like the honey to cook with (in the bakery I downloaded from @SheriGR I added a hive because I had some honey from my Sim's home garden and wanted honey on had at the bakery since the honey cake makes a nice profit! 🙂 )
I also like it as a source of emergency food and of course to sell. But I use it mostly to negate bad moodlets... like if my Sim is embarassed or uncomfortable or sad. But I usually end up using it to combat the effects of bee stings... and I have one family that gets stung a lot so I'm not sure if having honey just to fix the moodlet caused by bee stings is a really logical way of doing things! 😃
Also, some of my gardens were planted before Seasons so they arent' formatted in a way best to utilize bees. I have a house I've played since Outdoor Retreat where the extensive garden encircles the house! One bee box won't do the job! I have other older gardens set up for the Gardne Gnomes Club to help out, and those have so many plants that there isn't even room for a bee box... I would have to get rid of some plants, and I don't want to do that! ☹️
I guess you can say I'm a bit of a plant hoarder myself! 😃
- @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.
You don't need a separate bee hive for each one. As long as you don't have walls and they're within 10 blocks, it'll work fine and still make them "Sheltered".
But if you have them further apart, then yea, you'll need more than one. I never saw a need to do it that way. It pays to keep them close by so I only have one bee hive to manage.
I've never needed anything bigger than what you see above. I just need some flowers for romancing, flower arranging, and laundry, foodstuffs like onions, mushrooms, carrots and such to make meals cheaper, and dragonfruit for the $$$.
The honey isn't a big deal. I just sell it most of the time but keep one batch on all my sims in the house just in case they get stuck outside in severe cold or heat. It's worth it though. The quality doesn't seem to make much difference.
