Favorite Fertilizer Option Please

@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.

@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.

@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! 😃

@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.