New Gardening Overhaul in patch

"3KNPen;c-16519174" wrote:

"invisiblgirl;c-16519007" wrote:
I'm guessing, as mentioned above, that plants won't grow indoors anymore without glass roofs, and maybe we'll get the sprinklers in the patch.

I hope not. In real life you can grow plants inside without a greenhouse so there no need to restrict them so heavily in the game. There are some challenge out there that require growing stuff inside and also when you play rags to riches it doesn't make sense for a sim just starting out to need a greenhouse/house with a fancy glass roof they wouldn't be able to afford just to grow plants. Maybe a growth bonus for using the roofs/greenhouse would be fine but I hope they don't do away with the ability to grow inside without them completely.

But plants will die if they're no windows to give them sunlight. So it's really unrealistic that plants even grow in the darkest basement in TS4.

In TS2 and TS3 you could only plant plants outside or in a greenhouse and that's the most realistic decision.

If you want to place plants indoors you could still use the MOO cheat.
They could also add an UV light so that you could grow plants indoors to make it realistic.
I don't like that it doesn't matter in TS4, you can just place plants literally in the darkest basement without lights and they still grow perfectly. That's the depth that's missing in TS4 from TS2 and TS3.