Basically the title.The amount of work vs reward for oversized crops is like 17 to 1 or something. It takes me half a day taking care of the oversized crops, I barely have time with my chickens, rabbits and my regular crops.If I had a cow it would literally be impossible to do anything fun at all. Glad I opted to not have a large animal.

You could grow one or two as oversized vegetables not the whole garden. I love the way they look in the garden, so detailed and pretty, wish all crops were like that.

In my game, they aren't much work. As soon as you have befriended rabbits and birds they basically do all the work except for watering and fertilizing.

No, not really. I accidentally manage to get a Great Pumpkin. I had my Sim plant the oversized pumpkin seeds. Water all, fertilize using the Vitality fertilizer and then I clicked on the crop at one point and it had 'encourage growth'. I selected that one and my Sim removed all but one of the pumpkins in progress. Voila. The Great Pumpkin was grown.Here he is so proud of his work, that he used it as an album cover:https://i.imgur.com/TQJkDeR.jpg

"Beardedgeek;d-994597" wrote:Basically the title.The amount of work vs reward for oversized crops is like 17 to 1 or something. It takes me half a day taking care of the oversized crops, I barely have time with my chickens, rabbits and my regular crops.If I had a cow it would literally be impossible to do anything fun at all. Glad I opted to not have a large animal.Welcome to farm life in the Sims. ? I believe there are a couple of threads floating around on how to manage it. I have chickens, a cow, a llama, and the new crops and I admit my sim is busy all day.

Once I befriended rabbits to weed and birds to eat bugs, and fertilized a couple time I had plenty of time to have a cow and a llama and a full coop of chickens. Make sure you place your bird and rabbit homes close to the garden patches you want them to help with, then ask for garden help and in about 24 sim hours they take up a large portion of your workload. Patchy from Seasons is a huge help too!

Anyone else finding Oversized Crops WAY too much work?

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bshag4lv
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
The only thing I have against oversized plots is a spellcaster's floriloral doesn't work, she has to weed, water and spray for bugs, by hand. :D
ignominiusrex
4 years ago
Haha I thought this was going to be about over-sized crop TOPS and was dying to know what kind of work they were ?
Sharooonia
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
I actually found them easier than the garden plants we’ve always had because they don’t rely on any specific season to grow, they don’t go dormant for most of the year or need to be sheltered and the daily care is fairly straightforward. I wish all the plants would be like this.
Beardedgeek72
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
"Sharonia;c-17993770" wrote:
I actually found them easier than the garden plants we’ve always had because they don’t rely on any specific season to grow, they don’t go dormant for most of the year or need to be sheltered and the daily care is fairly straightforward. I wish all the plants would be like this.

Apparently the combination of the trait "Super Green Thumb" and the lot trait "Great Soil" makes most hard work redundant too. My Sim was really into gardening so I bought that reward trait and next thing I know all my Oversized Plants went into hyperdrive ;)
GalacticGal
Legend
4 years ago
"alexspoom13;c-17991794" wrote:
I'm not sure if it's a mod conflict, but I never have the option to weed the oversized crop patches even if their status is 'sickly'. 9/10 of my large crops just die because the interactions to keep them alive aren't available.

I use MCCC and Road to Fame. (I had others until my Sim could no longer be joined at the movie studio.) If you believe this to be the problem, remove the mods and try growing oversized crops again.

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