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! 😃
- @PugLove888 Laff... Actually I've never had to use it for the temperature protection. But I do like having it handy just-in-case the opportunity arrives.
I've done the romance thing once, but it's a bit of work for a small benefit. I've never used the honey for cooking, baking? I've never tried baking. I'll have to get into that soon.
I don't know why you guys hoard so many plants. I never saw a need to. With 3-6 harvestables a day, I can't possibly use it all and end up selling it. Most plants aren't good for money. Roses are good for money to start out, but once you hit level 5, the spliced plants are much better.
It's like I'll have one onion, tomato, potato, mushroom, spinach, and carrot plants. One of each for cooking. Those cover most recipes. Having more than one of each is useless. I'll never use all the harvestables, and they don't provide much money, so why have more?
I always grow 1 strawberry and 1 snapdragon, evolving them until I hit level 5, once I do, I splice the strawberry onto the snapdragon (or whichever is more evolved) and sell the other once I get a dragonfruit. Then I grow 2 and get over 3000 a day at magnificent quality. Those are my money-makers.
For normal game-play I never really have more than 8-10 plants. There isn't any need for it... unless I'm doing flower arranging, then I need all the flowers.
