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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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.
@Psychotps I was playing large households, herbalist/florist /chef sims, and experimenting with the plants... and hoarding them a bit. (Do you think?). Yes, they all became very wealthy, made their wares to sell in stores, and I did 'supersell' a lot. Yes, I could have way geared it down and had less bee hives. Thew were part of my experiments at parts. And not my favorite part at that. Oh... and this greenhouse had partial 2nd-floor loft on each side with an herbalist lab on one end and science lab on the other.
- @SheriGR Holy cow, I've never seen so many in one lot. How can you possibly be using so many harvestables?
I noticed your beehives aren't well situated. The pic in the message, it looks like you have three hives and they aren't covering the entire area of plants. They only go five blocks in each direction, the upper-left corner isn't benefiting. I'd delete the one on the top, and move the two on the bottom to the center, slightly right and left. Same with the other pictures. You can reduce the number of hives by situating some better and get better coverage.
But I suppose it doesn't matter much, with such an enormous number of duplicates, it won't matter if all of them aren't evolving very fast. @Psychotps Yes, I realize the position of the hives could be maximized in a few spots, but I made judgement calls in the situation based on a number of things that I won't go into... bottom line is that the maximum use of the beehives was not my top priority. I do fully comprehend how to use them to their 'maximum effect', if I wanted to. 😉 My main point is that using less of them in any of these situations also did not work for reaching all of the areas to a reasonable extent. Sometimes if you centrally locate the box it will then not reach to the outer areas, so adding it closer to the end perimeters may not make maximum use of each box, but it will then reach to all parts. I hope I explained this correctly. Bottom line is the gardens were almost all larger than yours, which is why I used more beehives. They evolved well and I took excellent care of them. As I said, I had many perfect plants in the end and more than a million semolinas from the efforts. 🙂
@Psychotps Yes and no. You have to queue them up to 'supersell' by batches/areas. No, definitely one supersell is not enough. I think the super-sell perimeter may even be smaller than a behive coverage perimeter. I don't remember the exact span right now (I don't garden extensively now, I build mostly), but you can tell by which plants have fruits gone.
@Psychotps :eahigh_file: Yes! I love that idea! Maybe if we ever get a farming pack my huge greenhouses & gardens will make more sense... I'm hoping for that! Wouldn't that be a great idea... to have a harvesting machine that could then harvest those for you or 'super sell' as a batch?!
Once I found out that harvesting and keeping the produce in personal inventory started making for ginormous household bills (I had a ton of perfect dragon fruits, for example and spent well over a rl hour clearing them out of inventory one night - and was a millionaire afterward)... I had to make a new plan. What I do now is first have them harvest just the plants I want to keep the produce from (to sell in a retail store, for herbal brews, flower arranging, or to cook with), then I queue up 'super sell' commands for everything else by areas. Works pretty efficiently. I also move the 'to sell' produce to the Lice Cold Freezers at the retail store and the flowers to the flower-arranging tables (both of these items sync with each other on lot, like the refrigerators do). This way I don't have a bunch of produce and flowers in personal inventory that adds to household bills.
The sprinklers also save TONS of time if you upgrade them all to unbreakable and no puddles and space them carefully to cover everything. This can even be done inside a greenhouse by removing a wall panel, removing the floor to the plant area (leave at least one square around the 'sunken' area), then plant directly in the ground if you want. Place the sprinklers, then replace the wall panel in the greenhouse. Now your greenhouse will self water, yet will be fully sheltered for all seasons (that is what was done in this greenhouse - pic below). Patchy is also a lifesaver for maintaining a large garden, as is a butler and a gardener. 🙂
@SheriGRYea, that's pretty much what I do. I harvest what I need and sell everything else. The beehive handles fertilizing, the sprinklers handle watering, I just need to sell all or supersell each day.
I only end up harvesting once a week or so. I never use any of the rest. That's why I don't need such a huge garden. One of each plant is FAR more than enough for everyday use. The rest is just cash. If I want more money, I'll plant more dragonfruit. My two perfect dragonfruit plants net me over 5K a day.
Making a million isn't hard. I could easily take my perfect dragonfruit and plant 20-30 more plants. In a few weeks, I'd have a million. I don't play for the cash, Just the challenge of the jobs and stuff.
I'm currently working my way through the social media career, just got the goal to obtain 25 million followers... gonna take some work.
