Re: Community Gardens will not allow harvesting

@CGrant56 Well, on console I'm all thumbs. On the computer my mouse is like part of my hand. It's an easy call. I have 4 adult sons, and three of them are quite the gamers. They don't play on PC, though.

@RandomBuzziness Your comment made me laugh! It's not unusual for my 'boss' (who's my age) to share some story about how he was going to contact me (I freelance) about this change or that, but then his son called and he ended up playing a game with his son and grandson. Mind you, his son lives in Michigan, and he is in New Jersey. LOL! So... maybe that will be more like your scenario. 🙌

@CGrant56, yes, cherries seem to take a long time to grow 😞  And in the wild I never see onions grow in a 7 day season, so I need to try on one of the longer cycles. But the odd thing is that I've haven't noticed this with onions bought in the seed packets. 🤔
I need to get back into grafting since they recalibrated the rates for certain produce! 😇

@RandomBuzziness, I felt the same way... playing video games all my life, I looked forward to playing them with my kids.🥳  But alas I don't have any children😢 (unless you count the four-legged furry kind ❤️🐶 ) so now I just play and talk video games with my nieces and nephews! 🙌  I'm the cool aunt! 😃

@SheriGR  you play the Sims, a very popular game. You've been playing its various versions for years and you play a lot!  I've got news for you: your sons are right; you are a gamer! 🙌  ☕

@PugLove888  I think you're right on the 7 day seasons because they do grow in the wild in my game with 28 day seasons.  Though I haven't played that season length except to test right after Seasons came out.  I chose 28 day seasons more or less because it just felt right even though it is sort of out of sync with how our sims age.  But it makes a lot of sense.  So probably they just don't have enough time to grow and bear before your seasons change if you don't pretty much keep a sim in the area the entire time.  And those, mushrooms and garlic? also drop to piles of dirt or close enough when they aren't in season.  I'd forgotten those when I was posting earlier.  You probably don't notice some things that happen on the home lot though since you spend so much time there, at least I do even if I do travel often.  The key in this version of the game is you have to be in a world zone long enough for certain things to happen like plant growth.  I am definitely going to experiment some more with grafts too after what I learned in this thread.

@CGrant56, I am currently testing a 14 day season (I usually play a 7 day one) and your problem with excessive rain on consecutive days (along with another poster) is what inspired @SheriGR  and I to test longer seasons in the game! 🙂 But I got sidetracked by the Tiny Living pack so I need to resume testing. 😳

I think most non-tree plants die back to a pile of dirt when they are out of season. 🤔 But that coconut tree, being a tree, shouldn't do that!  🤨

Yes, I remember the first time I got the game and heard that there were some different plant harvestables in Oasis Springs.  I took my Sim there and was so disappointed that I couldn't' harvest' anything at first, and then couldn't' harvest any of the tress before I had to return home. 😞  Now I'm used to it! 😃

Yes, the info on grafting that @BlackjackWidow gave will be very helpful! 🙌

@PugLove888  Maybe it's another seasons length thing, but what I see is most plants, once they grow up don't drop back to a pile of dirt.  If they go out of season, they just go dormant by changing to a darker color.  Or at least that's what I seem to remember anyway.  Maybe it's just the trees or maybe just some plants in some worlds of places.  I know though, when I last went to Sylvan Glade (snapdragons, cherries, strawberries, mushrooms and maybe pears) earlier this week that all the plants that were out of season were dormant but stayed at full size because they had the darker color and the mushrooms looked like they do just before they bear.  But at this point, I'm starting to get confused and I am going to go back in game just to check what is actually happening.  It's mid spring in my save right now in Willow Creek in the zone where the Goth place is and all the bearing plants are giving their fruit but I think there are one or two that aren't so I have something to check.  

BTW, Tiny living?  You like?  I got it but haven't messed around with it yet.  Can't wait to see what happens with the murphy bed after I read all about the death thing going on with it over at the main site. LOL  @SheriGR told me what happened to her too.  So this I gotta see!

@CGrant56 I will love my children in all other ways, but in this I will pulverize them to a pulp!

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I always garden outdoors & my plants do revert back into a pile of dirt as soon as they become out of season. Most trees won't disappear but they will change appearance with the seasons whether they are in-season or not. Like pear trees look like death in the winter but still grow fruit. Crazy, eh? Many of my other winter plants are like this as well. I still love outdoor gardening all the same :D

@PugLove888 Your nieces and nephews are right, you are cool :D Also, I love your tip from yesterday about the Garden Gnomes club basically doing a free gardening service. Give your four-legged children hugs for me =^-^=

@EuphorialQueen That was my thinking when I asked if there were harvestables available in the community garden. You explained the new gardening overhaul changes much better than I could have done so thanks for that! :D My Sim is too lazy to be anywhere before 5 am so if there's something on a lot that she really wants, she'll just sleep there overnight in her tent xD

@PugLove888  You and @RandomBuzziness are 100% right and I was mistaken on the plants reverting back to dirt piles so I'm eating a bit of crow atm.  I went back in to my game and played Osage Manor (the one catty corner across from the Goths) in Willow Creek in the mid spring for a while trying to get another sugar skull and checked the whole area.  All the bearing plants in that zone are mature but show the darker dull color except one, lilies and those are dirt piles.   I checked my notes and those bear in the summer.  But I'm also thinking that it might be just how I play sometimes that may have given me the idea that they didn't.  Regardless, all the ground type plants do go back to dirt piles when out of season.

@CGrant56 @RandomBuzziness @PugLove888 Well, you all distracted me and I paused my Tiny Home build to do some re-vamping of my multi plants that I use in my builds. For starter homes I normally place a garden with my multi-plants for cooking and a bit of income boost. Since season effects them outdoors pretty heavily, I had a plan that I kept back-burnering to re-splice the plants onto sage (and the trees to a lemon tree) to (hopefully) make them all-season outdoors. I finally got them done and it worked! You can check them in the gallery if you want to see how it works. I grafted a death flower plant onto sage and now it produces 3 flowers rather than 1, also! Take that you Killer Murphy Bed! 🙌 

Tip on grafting: (Ya, you probably already knew, but just in case) ...If you gather all of the cuttings you need first, you can then go to the base plant and queue up every graft you want to do to the plant and the sim will do all of them in a row. If you stop to re-queue the plant will go to it's new state and you'll have to wait until it re-grows to add another graft.

Going back to my Tiny Home build now.... 😉

@CGrant56, don't feel bad.😇  It is an easy thing to get mixed up as most of the plants do change color with the seasons, becoming dull in the colder months, even if it is a season that they produce harvestable in.  I only remembered it because I have planted some items and didn't get around to researching them for my Sim when they were growing and the season changed and they died back and I couldn't have my Sim research that plant until the next time they were in season! 😞
Also, the other week I mistakenly forgot that Outdoor Retreat didn't have tents!  Then a friend reminded me that they did and it was only then that I remembered my Sim family camping in a tent outside the Hermit's cabin! 🤭😳😃

Yes, I am enjoying Tiny Living! 🙌 To keep this thread on topic I'll put a link to my thoughts on that here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion-Feedback/Tiny-Living-Talk/m-p/8680957#M21985 :eastandard_smile:

@RandomBuzziness, I'm happy you liked my tip about the Garden Gnomes club!🙌  Why pay for a gardener when you can get the work done for free and reap the Club benefits too?!?!? 🤔 Before Patchy and Seasons, this was the only way I could handle some of my really large gardens!  I don't use many of the clubs from Get Together,  (my style of play is more home-based), but I love the Garden Gnomes! 🧙❤️

@SheriGR, way to go on your improved grafted plants! 🙌  I will have to download them , but I also hope you include them in future builds of yours! 🙂 Also, thanks for the additional grafting tips! ❤️

@PugLove888 Awww... You're so kind, as always! I made a 'pause' in my current build because I finally got a bee in my bonnet to get them ready for my current build. I have planned to do this for quite a while. Please enjoy them!

I got a chuckle when you mentioned (as many of you have) using the Garden Gnomes to help. I had a huge garden at one time with a stupid CowPlant (don't get me started on that one) and he (well, I guess she) was working my last nerve. So high maintenance and annoying! Patchy didn't help with her, nor did the gardener or butler. So... hey, what about at least getting some status with or help from the Garden Gnomes with my Cow Plant? 

So I called a meeting. They ate treats, milled around, and didn't care one bit about my stupid CowPlant. And of course no one would feed him her. I was a little annoyed. I like to protect my sims, but I was thinking about that time it may not be so bad if the CowPlant... Well...🎂...
Nope. Not going there. 

So that was the end of me trying to get useful stuff from the Garden Gnomes. I must admit I've not had my social clubs over for various help. I'll have to give it a try at some point. ☕ 

@SheriGR, thanks for the humorous CowPlant story! 😃  The first time I successfully had a CowPlant in TS4 eat a Sim was during a Garden Gnome meeting at my Sim's house!  The CowPlant ate Moira! 😮😃 But she was fine afterwards!  🙂

The Gardener can be very expensive with larger gardens, and for a while I didn't have the SP that included the Butler (I had been recovering from surgery for a long time and couldn't play the Sims, so I got very behind on keeping up with all the packs that came out that year.  )  Also,  I didn't always have room for the Butler's bedroom in each house.  So, before Seasons came with Patchy, the only way I could keep a larger garden was with the Garden Gnomes club! ❤️  Free gardening, complete with socialization and all the Club System Perks! 🙌

I just now want to test having a Butler, hiring a Gardener, Patchy, and then call the Garden Gnomes at the same time! 👿  Must have a huge garden to do this as the Gardener comes earlier than the time when Patchy gets off his stump and comes alive! I wouldn't' want the Gardener to leave too early.  Might not work unless I can keep the Butler away from the garden until the Gardener arrives and Patchy comes to life.🤔  At least I can call the Garden Gnomes any time day or night! 🙌

@PugLove888 @SheriGR @RandomBuzziness 

Don't forget that we have another gardening option with DU.  The Gardener bots.  Once you get them upgraded all you have to do is harvest and make sure that you get to them fast when they break.  Otherwise you end up with a pile of rubble if you wait too long.  I like 'em.  Most of my gardens are big and have all the plants.  I think it's around 70.  A couple or 3 of the bots working 24/7 really make a difference!

@CGrant56, thanks for mentioning the Gardening Bots!!! 🙌  How could I forget them! 🤭 (Granted, I only have one household with one, but I've been using it extensively! 😃 ) 

@SheriGRand @RandomBuzziness , add the Gardening Bot to the list that I need to have all the gardener options on my lot at the same time! 😃

@RandomBuzziness @PugLove888 @CGrant56 Actually, my favorite build for doing a huge garden was the one where I made a ginormous greenhouse with a 2nd floor that had Herbalist and Botanist rooms, Florist tables on the main floor, and a sunken room in the middle with the floor removed and the bee hives, plants planted directly in the ground, and sprinklers all upgraded to not puddle and be unbreakable. Then my huge gardener household could just be sent out to tend the bee hives and super-sell (man, I love super-sell!!!), because Patchy and the Butler usually had most of the work done already, and just to pick up any slack I had a Gardener hired also (though that was during the bug where they wouldn't usually come/be hirable). I love those sprinklers once upgraded!!