Gardening

My plants reset to dirt piles every day at exactly 7 am sims time if I haven't harvested them. EVERY SINGLE DAY. It is frustrating to say the least. Would be really nice to see this fixed. Also for the produce going into the family inventory I had that issue when I had them in planters. When I removed the floor from my greenhouse and planted them directly in the dirt that stopped happening.

I have built green houses for my Sims, even in Hansford-on-Begley. But, I do find that after a watering or harvesting, the plants revert to a dirt mound as if newly planted. This was a problem before, allegedly fixed, but I assume it's one of those fixes that got nerfed after a patch. Oh, well. I don't mind too much, so long as my farmers get to reap what they've sown.

Gardening is working for me. And yes, since Cottage Living, I have deleted all gardening mods, except the one where children can do gardening.
What annoys me, but I guess helps the plants, is that my Sims keep going and talk to the plants. A bit insane, but hey, if it works, right? lol

@Admiral8Q Children can garden now without mods :) ever since last month's patch. It builds Mental skill.
I think Talk to Plant raises gardening skill for the sim but doesn't do anything for the plant. But if you know otherwise please share!

I am not having any issues with gardening. I have cottage living and seasons and it hasn't affected the plants growth. Oversized crops outside and the rest are sheltered.

The only time my plants revert to the dirt patch is when they had bugs and I either didn't see them immediately or if I forgot to spray them. Bugs are hard to spot sometimes, they also spread and can damage plants significantly. Fortunately, if the gardening skill is high enough "tend garden" will take care of bugs automatically.

I’m not having the reversion to dirt piles issue since they fixed it, but I am having the harvestables going into household inventory glitch @Kimmer mentioned, and it’s a pain because you have to pull each piece out individually and lay it on the ground for your sim to add to personal inventory if you want to try and sell it at the stands for the extra 10% after haggling, or you have to sell it straight from household inventory at basically a bit of a loss. Because even without the extra 10% I’m pretty sure the stands pay a bit more than selling directly from the inventories.

"Kimmer;c-17961951" wrote:
Gardening is completely broken right now. I've been taking a break for few days from playing Sims 4 because of it.
It's so frustrating because almost all my Sims have a garden. Crops revert to dirt piles all the time and when they don't, the harvestables go to the family inventory if my Sims don't harvest them immediately in the morning.
Gardening used to be one of my favorite things in Sims 4 and now when it's gone I don't know what to do with the Sims who were making their income by gardening.

Between the patch that initally broke gardening and the CL pack, gardening is pretty much impossible for me...and I'm upset about that. Nearly all of my sims are, or were, gardeners and now my sim plants strawberries, in season, in a greenhouse and the bugs will spawn 2-3 times per day. The bird buddies will ignore any plants with bugs that aren't oversized on the CL plots.

I'm so done with gardening...I'm really upset about this and yet it does no good. :'(

Edit to say, about the only sim who can garden is a spellcaster with the ability to sling the florilorial spell to get rid of everything at once.

"bshag4lv;c-17962857" wrote:

"Kimmer;c-17961951" wrote:
Gardening is completely broken right now. I've been taking a break for few days from playing Sims 4 because of it.
It's so frustrating because almost all my Sims have a garden. Crops revert to dirt piles all the time and when they don't, the harvestables go to the family inventory if my Sims don't harvest them immediately in the morning.
Gardening used to be one of my favorite things in Sims 4 and now when it's gone I don't know what to do with the Sims who were making their income by gardening.

Between the patch that initally broke gardening and the CL pack, gardening is pretty much impossible for me...and I'm upset about that. Nearly all of my sims are, or were, gardeners and now my sim plants strawberries, in season, in a greenhouse and the bugs will spawn 2-3 times per day. The bird buddies will ignore any plants with bugs that aren't oversized on the CL plots.

I'm so done with gardening...I'm really upset about this and yet it does no good. :'(

Edit to say, about the only sim who can garden is a spellcaster with the ability to sling the florilorial spell to get rid of everything at once.

The birds are keeping bugs off my plants even the regular ones but I think they have a range that they work in so it may be that some of your plants are too far away from their tree. Another thing you could try is a game repair I only have bugs spawning about once an in game week per plant.

"mightysprite;c-17962531" wrote:
@Admiral8Q Children can garden now without mods :) ever since last month's patch. It builds Mental skill.
I think Talk to Plant raises gardening skill for the sim but doesn't do anything for the plant. But if you know otherwise please share!

That's right, slipped my mind. I checked now and it must have been one of the mods I removed CL. :)