Let's talk gardening!

"Stormkeep;c-16858146" wrote:
@Gwiniel, I do a combination of both decorative and for profit/food gardening. In my main household garden (that I mentioned earlier in the thread), over half of the plants were decorative. Both you and @luxsylvan touched on how time consuming it would be to harvest everything with a lot of actual gardened flowers....but that's the thing, if they are decorative you DON'T harvest from them. Once they bloom, you leave them alone....so that they stay pretty.

The front flower bed for the house is a combination of grown flowers and static (non-gardening ones), and I rotate in different plants from family inventory depending on the season and what will bloom. This gives the flower bed seasonal color. It's 0 effort for my sims because all it needs is water and weeding, and I pay a gardener to do that. I only harvest it right at the end of the season. If I were working on flower-arranging skill, of course, I'd harvest more.

I'd take some shots of it to share, but I changed active lots earlier today. The eldest son of my main household grew to adulthood and he has moved to the city. I always control the heir-apparent of each generation in my game, which means my active-play moved with him. The only garden i have now is two plants I am growing indoors. Sad me.

Before Seasons, I used to keep some of the flowering plants in front for decorative purposes. It would be interesting to craft something like a bloom clock, or a mosaic calculated so that the garden always has something in bloom. (I'll have to think about that a bit - sounds like it would be fun to craft.)

Mostly, I garden to have fresh produce for recipes and flowers for flower arrangements and for scenting the laundry. (Also, I always keep strawberries on hand to game the chances of getting a girl when I have a pregnant Sim.)