Garden doesn't need watering and weeding

"lotary;c-16914671" wrote:

"invisiblgirl;c-16895044" wrote:
My greenhouse garden doesn't need tending very often, and, IIRC, if you have or have had a Sim with the 'green thumb' trait, it needs even less attention. So, yes, I'd say it's not abnormal for plants to go several days without needing water or weeding - they actually need fertiliser more often. If they're dying from lack of water or have weeds you can see but can't remove, however, then something is wrong.

Due to real life issues, I almost forgot that I made this thread. Pardon me for the late reply.

Back to the topic, the problem is my garden seems inactive. The harvestables don't add up and the only watering needed is when my Sim plants a new seed. It frustates me as I want to make my Sim a botanist, but without gardening I doubt he can reach the top level or even be promoted. Yes, there's a cheat, but I want to avoid using cheat as possible as I could.

They need more water in summer, even if they're in the greenhouse. And some plants don't produce harvestables every day, and don't produce many when they do. I did have trouble getting the 'weed or water plants ten times' aspiration goal completed, because even though I had six plants in my greenhouse, they so rarely needed either that it took a while to get to ten times. (I eventually started four new plants - three for the splicing I knew I would have to do in the next stage of the aspiration, and a cow plant, which I would need later.)

If you're just trying to level up their gardening, try researching the plants (I think that requires the second level, and a plant can't be researched until it actually sprouts.) That builds gardening very quickly. And, of course, you can always have your Sim read the gardening skill books. But I'm not discounting the possibility that you've got something bugged in your game.