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7 years ago

Let's talk gardening!

Gardening is one of my favourite aspects of the Sims, and I know there are other players obsessed with their Sim plants, so I thought I'd start a thread for sharing tips, tricks, questions and annoyances.

My current legacy household is on the lot next to the pond in Newcrest. The entire top floor of the house is a greenhouse, and the basement is a vault filled with aquariums. (According to Carl, the best fertiliser since the gardening update is 'excellent' quality tuna, salmon, wolf eels and sturgeon.) Both tuna and wolf eels are available from the pond. (Tip for amassing frogs to catch wolf eels: put two frogs of the same type in the inventory of every adult or teen Sim. Every four hours, have each Sim breed new frogs. Tuna can also be caught with frogs.)

My goal is to eventually have a 'perfect' harvestable from every plant.

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  • @invisiblgirl, I got my snowdrops to perfect without an issue not that long ago, at the same time I was working on every other plant. Will say that it seemed like some plants go up faster than others...but with plants regularly going active/inactive with seasons it's so hard to tell for sure. I guess if you have them ALL in a greenhouse it'd be easy, but I didn't and was manually rotated plants inside and out.

    Stick with it, it will get there. Switch to using fish with a higher value (Salmon or Tuna work great) if you want it to go faster. They are both much better fertilizers then growfruit. I just bought the fish I used when getting the sim garden up..mostly I used growfruit and pomegranate, like you are, but I did buy fish to use for the slower-developing plants.

    For me, at least, it seemed to be some of the flowers that were slowest to gain quality, and snowdrop is a flower, so it may be a good candidate for fishy-fertilizer for you.

    Good luck!
  • "Stormkeep;c-16898172" wrote:
    @invisiblgirl, I got my snowdrops to perfect without an issue not that long ago, at the same time I was working on every other plant. Will say that it seemed like some plants go up faster than others...but with plants regularly going active/inactive with seasons it's so hard to tell for sure. I guess if you have them ALL in a greenhouse it'd be easy, but I didn't and was manually rotated plants inside and out.

    Stick with it, it will get there. Switch to using fish with a higher value (Salmon or Tuna work great) if you want it to go faster. They are both much better fertilizers then growfruit. I just bought the fish I used when getting the sim garden up..mostly I used growfruit and pomegranate, like you are, but I did buy fish to use for the slower-developing plants.

    For me, at least, it seemed to be some of the flowers that were slowest to gain quality, and snowdrop is a flower, so it may be a good candidate for fishy-fertilizer for you.

    Good luck!


    Yes, I sent my Sim off to fish the other night, and got a very nice Wolf Eel that I'm going to try for the next fertiliser go-round. Sadly, Ryland may not live to see his snowdrops perfect themselves, as his life bar is bubbling and I'm expecting Grim sometime today.
  • "invisiblgirl;c-16899386" wrote:
    "Stormkeep;c-16898172" wrote:
    @invisiblgirl, I got my snowdrops to perfect without an issue not that long ago, at the same time I was working on every other plant. Will say that it seemed like some plants go up faster than others...but with plants regularly going active/inactive with seasons it's so hard to tell for sure. I guess if you have them ALL in a greenhouse it'd be easy, but I didn't and was manually rotated plants inside and out.

    Stick with it, it will get there. Switch to using fish with a higher value (Salmon or Tuna work great) if you want it to go faster. They are both much better fertilizers then growfruit. I just bought the fish I used when getting the sim garden up..mostly I used growfruit and pomegranate, like you are, but I did buy fish to use for the slower-developing plants.

    For me, at least, it seemed to be some of the flowers that were slowest to gain quality, and snowdrop is a flower, so it may be a good candidate for fishy-fertilizer for you.

    Good luck!


    Yes, I sent my Sim off to fish the other night, and got a very nice Wolf Eel that I'm going to try for the next fertiliser go-round. Sadly, Ryland may not live to see his snowdrops perfect themselves, as his life bar is bubbling and I'm expecting Grim sometime today.


    Update: the option to fertilise didn't come up that day. Just after Grim came to reap Ryland, the snowdrops got the evolve option. I think he sold his soul.

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