Werewolves - Collective are rotten gardeners

I don't experience this in Moonwood Mill, but had it a few times in Henford (village neighborhood and creature keeper neighborhood).

That said, my game is modded, and among the things the townies keep trying to plant are candied apples, ice cream cones and the occasional dead boar. All of these seem to be cloned from harvestables.

I don’t have it, I play vanilla. They just care for plants that are already there.

I think I figured out the problem... it looks like somehow the plants went away but the harvestable "crop" was hovering in mid-air. So the sims were trying to plant in the "open" space but the hovering unharvested crops got in the way. Not sure if that's one of my mods or just a weird glitch but getting rid of the errant crops via debug commands seems to have helped.

Might be a glitch. I've seen the floating crops thing happen at the San Myshuno Spice festival occasionally.

I've been having that problem in addition to all of them just being lousy gardeners. If you leave to their devices, everything they plant WILL die. They are terrible at maintaining the things that they planted.