Gardening Essentials? (BG+packs)

"LatinaBunny;c-18030656" wrote:

Oooh! Yes, I need lists! There are just too many plants, fish, and recipes to keep track of, heh! ?

I tried googling the canning stuff, so hopefully these two links have everything for the canning basics, if anyone needs them besides me, heh:
https://www.thegamer.com/the-sims-4-cottage-living-guide-canning/amp/

https://simscommunity.info/2021/07/22/the-sims-4-cottage-living-an-introduction-to-canning/

Yep, that links looks quite accurate and useful.

I love gardening and cooking in Sims games...every household I play ends up with at least a few garden plants even if it is just some tomatoes growing in a pot on the balcony in an apartment in San Myshuno.

I got Cottage Living for Christmas (yay!) and the new lot trait that makes cooking require ingredients is one I will probably turn on in all of my households as well. I have wanted sims to be required to go grocery shopping (or grow/raise their own) since TS4 first came out, and now I can! I love that lot trait.

BTW, no one has mentioned it, but if you're doing gardening don't forget about Flowers and the Flower Arranging table either (added with Seasons). If that's something that might interest you. And also remember the Bee Box, which is useful for improving the quality of nearby plants, and Patchy who is useful for helping with gardening.
Cottage Living also unlocks an easy-plant-upgrade route you could opt for using golden chickens, golden milk or golden egg omelets which let you instant-upgrade plants to perfect with their super-secret golden pulse power. And the rabbits and birds, which respectively help with weeding and bug removal, from Cottage Living are much more helpful than I at first realized. I can't remember the last time my current household had to weed or spray for bugs themselves now that they have many little friends.