Country living gardening

Small: The small varieties of these crops were not taken care of well enough but on the bright side, you’ll get nine of these crops from one garden plot so you have a lot of produce to use for canning and cooking. Don’t bother entering these puny things into the Finchwick Fair’s Oversized Crop Competition, though.

Medium: If you’ve taken decent care of your oversized crop, you’ll end up with two medium-sized crops in one garden plot. These aren’t great contenders for the Finchwick Fair, either, but can be sold for more simoleons than the small crops and are useful for cooking a variety of recipes.

Large: If you’ve taken impeccable care of your oversized crop, you’ll end up with one giant crop in your garden plot. These crops aren’t great for canning or cooking but sell for a lot of simoleons and have the potential to win you ribbons and other prizes at the Finchwick Fair.

https://simscommunity.info/2021/07/26/the-sims-4-cottage-living-oversized-crops-guide/

@simgirl1010 Thank you very much!

One correction for that article, small crops give you 4 of that crop, not 9.

@invisiblgirl The seeds are the same whether they become small, medium or oversized. It’s the care that determines the size. They all start off with 9 seedlings, then at some point they’ll merge to either 4 plants, 2 plants or 1. When you plant them, click one of the new soil patches and select the option to plant “oversized” crops/seeds, not the regular plant option.

I can’t confirm at the moment whether oversized pumpkins can be used in recipes, that may be working as intended according to the descriptions posted upthread. But it also says they’re better to win prizes at the fair and that’s a bunch of bologna.

@Ziafar Yes, absolutely. I’ve been making a ton in my farm save. The oversized crops sell for several hundred, plus if you wait until the Saturday fair and haggle with the vendor, they sell for 25% more. On a regular day, haggling gets you 10% more. The Shameless reward trait is good to have when haggling.

Cheaper produce (not the new types of crops - those are always a good value) can be made into friendly animal treats and sold the same way. One mushroom worth 2 simoleons becomes a treat worth 21 simoleons with a good haggle.

But canning is extremely lucrative. I don’t have numbers off the top of my head but you can use a small crop and get 3 cans out of it which sell for a couple hundred or so each.

My sims grew so much, their fields are empty right now. They spent the winter canning and could do that forever with what they have and never run out of money.

That is VERY interesting. I will test all that!

"invisiblgirl;c-17996877" wrote:
I'm not sure this is working as intended. I can't find seed packets for the small and medium versions, and when I purchased them at the grocers, I wasn't able to plant them.

The oversized pumpkins seem to be borked - after harvesting them, I've been unable to can them. When I select canning and pumpkin, the oversized version is greyed out because I haven't got one in my inventory. (My pumpkin comes out 'perfect' quality, like all of my oversized crops, but the only thing I can do with it is turn it into an ornamental doorstop.)

Just use the oversized packet. Like what was stated before you'll have several pumpkins waiting. Ignore the optimize for large crop option, which has your Sim clear out all but one or two plants. Voila.

"invisiblgirl;c-18011380" wrote:

You mean 'encourage crop growth', which my Sim always does? I'll give that a try. I still can't use the oversized pumpkin for canning - whether I put it in the refrigerator or in my Sim's inventory, when I hover over the pumpkin canning options, it tells me there is no oversized pumpkin available. The other giant plants can be canned just fine - it's only the pumpkin that doesn't seem to work.

I'm not sure if this is the exact issue that you are experiencing, but there is currently a known bug that only orange pumpkins can be canned:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-CoL-Can-only-make-Pumpkin-Conserve-from-orange-pumpkins/m-p/10582282#M197173

"EternalSunshine;c-18011395" wrote:

"invisiblgirl;c-18011380" wrote:

You mean 'encourage crop growth', which my Sim always does? I'll give that a try. I still can't use the oversized pumpkin for canning - whether I put it in the refrigerator or in my Sim's inventory, when I hover over the pumpkin canning options, it tells me there is no oversized pumpkin available. The other giant plants can be canned just fine - it's only the pumpkin that doesn't seem to work.

I'm not sure if this is the exact issue that you are experiencing, but there is currently a known bug that only orange pumpkins can be canned:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-CoL-Can-only-make-Pumpkin-Conserve-from-orange-pumpkins/m-p/10582282#M197173

Omg is that the problem?? I had a white oversized pumpkin and I could not can it. I was getting annoyed. Thank you for letting us know about this issue.

"EternalSunshine;c-18011395" wrote:

"invisiblgirl;c-18011380" wrote:

You mean 'encourage crop growth', which my Sim always does? I'll give that a try. I still can't use the oversized pumpkin for canning - whether I put it in the refrigerator or in my Sim's inventory, when I hover over the pumpkin canning options, it tells me there is no oversized pumpkin available. The other giant plants can be canned just fine - it's only the pumpkin that doesn't seem to work.

I'm not sure if this is the exact issue that you are experiencing, but there is currently a known bug that only orange pumpkins can be canned:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-CoL-Can-only-make-Pumpkin-Conserve-from-orange-pumpkins/m-p/10582282#M197173

That's probably the bug - all my pumpkins turn out white or green or something in between. Now, I'm motivated - my Sims are going to grow an orange pumpkin if I have to cover the lot in pumpkin patches. (Bugs aren't annoyances, they're challenges!)