Cowplant Help

OMG! Are you kidding me? After a week he could garden again. BUT, his wife who is the Botanist turned around and ate the cake not 3 minutes later and now she is terrified and won't do any gardening. But that's not the end of it, hubby decided to go ahead and eat the cake again. Now I have 2 sims that won't do any gardening for a week if its the same as last time. So now every day I go into build mode and put all harvestable plants in inventory so they drop their crop, then I put the plants back and sell all the harvestable from inventory. I hired a gardener to take care of them until they're ok. But sometimes they need watering or weeding when the gardeners not there, like weekends etc. So I put those in inventory until he comes back so they won't die. I put the cow plant in inventory so it don't die. I'm playing 1st generation of sims in bloom and she's supposed to be a gardener. And so far I'm still on the first cow plant. Sometimes I don't believe this game. But I love it.