Plants Never Need Water

In every sims game I play, on my laptop and on my boyfriend's computer, after the initial watering, my plants no longer need water ever. They still need weeding, spraying and can be evolved. This is getting very frustrating as I like having botanist sims, and for the freelance botanist aspiration, they need to water or weed plants 10 times, which is largely slowed down because of this bug. Does anyone else experience it because I can't seem to escape no matter what I play on? Any tips would be appreciated.