Country living gardening

"GalacticGal;c-17997509" wrote:

"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.

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.

"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.

I've been wondering about the situation with Lettuce for recipes if you have simple living lot challenge enabled.
Other ingredients yield like 4-6 per day per plant when in season. And you can fit 4 plants in a garden plot, so 16-24 harvestables per plot per day.
The lettuce is one of those potentially big crops, so maximum 4 harvestables per plot per... year?
And you need a whole lettuce to make 1 portion of garden salad. Which makes garden salad suddenly a very precious commodity.
Am I missing something or is this very unbalanced?

"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!)

"mightysprite;c-18012568" wrote:
I've been wondering about the situation with Lettuce for recipes if you have simple living lot challenge enabled.
Other ingredients yield like 4-6 per day per plant when in season. And you can fit 4 plants in a garden plot, so 16-24 harvestables per plot per day.
The lettuce is one of those potentially big crops, so maximum 4 harvestables per plot per... year?
And you need a whole lettuce to make 1 portion of garden salad. Which makes garden salad suddenly a very precious commodity.
Am I missing something or is this very unbalanced?

@mightysprite
I’ve learned to can the oversized produce - you’ll get so much more out of it! With lettuce, for example, you need 1 (of ANY size) to make 1 serving of garden salad (along with a tomato). But you can turn it into lettuce conserve and it’s exactly the same thing, only you get more jars out of it, depending on your size of lettuce.
Small - 2 jars
Medium - 5 jars
Oversized- 12 jars

Knowing this, no one would use an oversized lettuce on a single garden salad when you can get 12 jars out of it, and it takes 2 jars of lettuce to make 4 or 8 servings which means you have the potential to make 48 servings of garden salad, provided you also have 12 tomatoes (or 4, really- because you can triple your tomatoes by canning those, too, and tomato sauce is usable in garden salad - mmmmm! ?)

IRL, lettuce conserve sounds gross, but hey. I don’t have to eat it!

wow @babajayne yes that sounds like the smoothie version of garden salad, ick! but thank you so much for the tip! I never would have thought to use canned veggies for salad ingredients...

"invisiblgirl;c-18012714" wrote:

"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!)

I did get my orange pumpkins, and I was finally able to make pumpkin conserve. I'm extremely pleased about this. (I sold my useless white gourds to the grocery stall. She doesn't care, she'll just pass them on in her 'mystery boxes'. I suspect they're like the fruitcake that just keeps giving.

"mightysprite;c-18012980" wrote:
wow @babajayne yes that sounds like the smoothie version of garden salad, ick! but thank you so much for the tip! I never would have thought to use canned veggies for salad ingredients...

It seems pretty weird to me, too, but you know, colonial Americans used to preserve full heads of lettuce in brine. At Monticello, they served brined Tennis Ball lettuce.