One thing I don’t see mentioned often is that you can change the sex of a sim’s baby by feeding the mother either strawberries for a girl and carrots for a boy during pregnancy. Good for legacy players with particular inheritance rules or storytelling!!
Strawberries and Pop music for girls. Carrots and Alternative music for boys. If you eat at least 3 of the crop per trimester, and listen to at least one hour of the music per trimester, your selection is all but guaranteed. I've used this for years and it's never yet failed.
The gardening skill and aspiration is a really good one to give the whole household. Because as long as one does the hard work, the others have just got to do a really tiny bit of work in comparison. The cow plant and excellent plants count as long as they’re in your garden, even if your other sim made them.
I like to invite over other sims I know who like gardening, add them to group, and then select Weed Together. Indentured servants from around the neighborhood.
It's so weird that the gardening reward trait for freelance botanist gives you fireproof sims. Did their veggies give them so many vitamins they became superhuman or something? lol. Thanks for the video!
Btw, you need Outdoor Retreat to be able to craft garden pots on the woodworking table. Also, if you have Get to Work expansion, the analyzer can help you rapidly increase the quality of your plants. Any YA or older sim with at least lvl 5 in gardening can use the Analyze Plant interaction which can turn your plant into the same plant but 1 quality level higher (it can also drop it all the way back to Normal). This works best on fast growing plants like parsley: you plant them, harvest them the next day, analyze them, then you plant the improved quality herb. And on and on, all the way to Perfect quality. Then you can take a cutting from a more valuable plant and splice it onto your parsley. This way will allow you to max the quality of your entire garden pretty fast. You just need one perfect plant.
Thanks so much Wasienka for clarifying/ correcting me :), appreciate it and apologies the outdoor retreat info wasn't in the vid! And thanks for the analyzer info too! Defs a great thing to make use of!
My best tip for gardening is to build a huge two story building. Add a glass roof. Delete the walls and floors. Add columns if you feel the need. Now plant everything underneath this "greenhouse ". Everything should grow year round. Don't forget the bee box!
This was so awesome! Just a little sidenote for those who may not know and that you have mentioned in previous videos, the bees also produce beeswax as well as honey if you have eco lifestyle. The beeswax can be used to make candles! I really enjoy how this skill is so integrated with so many expansion packs! Thank you so much for sharing this in depth video! It was amazing as always.
Green Fiend from Eco Lifestyle is also a great trait for a gardener as they will autonomously garden and can talk to plants at gardening level 1 instead of much later in the skill. I find that if you pair this trait with Loves Outdoors, it works really well.
Hey, I know this is totally random and not related to this video but I wanted to share some information that I’m not entirely sure if you happen to know but I thought it was an amazing hack. I recently started trying to complete the super parent aspiration, so I was watching one of your videos about how to raise your children’s character traits, and I was having trouble building the emotional control… I know you can write in a journal and as a teen go on runs/jogs and things like that but I felt like the options were very limited to children… but then I discovered children can do yoga and meditate! Which builds up emotional control and not just that, it also builds two skills at the same time, motor and logic. Again, I just thought this was an amazing discovery and I thought you should know in case you didn’t 😬
also if you have tiny living with a micro home (32 tiles or less) then all gardeing plants grow twice as fast and skill building gets a 2x boost as well
I am truly enjoying your Skill Guides. I have been a Sims Player for 18 years, and you have helped me really fall in love with the Sims 4 and I look forward to watching your skill guides Thank you So much!
LeAnna! Thank you so much for the super kind comment! I really appreciate it :D I am so glad that the guides are helping, and I'll be sure to do more skill guides in the future.
Thanks for another great video! I've been playing the Sims games since Sims 1, and I almost always learn something new from your videos - this one included. One thing to note that I didn't see in the video: You can often get Uncommon and Rare plants easily via the gardening and grocery stalls in Henford-on-Bagley, especially during festivals when they sell mystery boxes. Additionally, the magic shops in the Magic Realm sometimes have these plants, too, and I've found Death Flowers there multiple times. (We need to check every day after they re-stock until we get lucky, of course...can't have it be TOO easy.)
You missed out the Eco Lifestyle gardening content: Vertical planters (inc. Faux Meat Wall) Hydroponic planters (don't need watering) Community Garden (one of the Community Space sublots) Soybeans (unique with 2 products from one ungrafted plant) Bug Farms (produce Super Ferilizer occasionally) Food Waste/Compost (fertilisers) Green Gardening/Self Sufficiency NAPs (bonuses for gardeners)
I totally did Vane! Definitely an oversight on my end, so apologies for that! I might try to cover it all in a separate video sometime down the track :).
I always play with gardening but I'm so glad I watched this for small but super important lessons! I had no idea "vigorously ensure plants life" was the same as "tend garden" 🤦🤦 I thought it was a social interaction.
Ok, I've had this game how long now and had no idea gardening was this intensive lol. I just started gardening on my current playthrough while going to college as a side hobby. Never knew it was this involved and had so much potential for fun/money. Thanks for the informative vid!
Couple things, you missed out on the Eco Living content that helps out gardening quite a bit. The vertical planters are great for saving lot space. Civil Designer sims can fabricate hydroponic planters that automatically water plants. Also side note if a planter is outside under a roof that juts outward enough it counts as sheltered!
Personally, I group my garden according to plant type. There's a planter for beans, two for fruit, two for veggies, one for magickal plants (like mandrake and wolfsbane), one for bizarre plants (like trash fruit), several groupings of flowers such as common, exotic, and holiday (i.e. holly, christmas rose, etc.) Trees generally get planted separately in the ground, and a couple of small planter pots get their own plants, super oddball stuff like UFO fruit and sixam mosquito trap.
Also, the vertical planters and the aquaponics planters from eco-lifestyle can be very helpful. The vertical planters if fully upgraded take care of plants so we don't need to. Aquaponics keep plants wet
Some plants will sprout almost as soon as you plant them. Harvest all allow your Sims to harvest the fruits of the money tree, as long as there is at least one normally harvestable plant close enough to the money tree. You can take a cutting from the money tree and graft it on any other plant. If the receiving plant is of the perfect quality, you'll be able to harvest perfect money fruits that you can plant to get more perfect money trees. Another way to have your plants sheltered : Plant them close to the house. You can even extend the overhang of your roofs to enlarge the sheltered area.
Thank you for acknowledging the complexity of this skill. Its so confusing. Hopefully this guide will help me see a difference in progress cus I really wanna explore this skill.
LilMami! This is true! And to be honest is a bit of an oversight on my end, so apologies for that! Eco Lifestyle defs adds a few cool features (as you've mentioned) to gardening :).
My top tip has to be seasonal rotation - by which i mean putting out of season plants into your household inventory and planting seasonal ones in their place. It just gives a bit of variety and doesn't effect the quality or growth state, good for builds eith small gardens too. Starting a play from autumn for those Harvest Fest gnomes and their free seeds too, only reason i keep those guys around!
Hi Peter, I just installed most of the expansion packs on my PC and your videos realllllly helped me with the tiniest details for me to get started everything. Thank you so much!🎉🎉🎉❤❤
This was so indepth! I love it! I feel so Inspired! Ya know what I will go forth and make the garden of my dreams! Thank you for all your help Petey! You are the best! Thank you for taking the time to even make this video! Cya Later!
I play the same way. Even my San Myshuno city sims have rooms in their apartment turned into greenhouses. The skill is just so much fun. I love how it works with rags to riches in particular.
0:50 - the EASIEST way to start/complete your vegetable collection is to use the fridge and order exactly what you need instead of using the RNG packages and hoping not to get duplicates
If in the science career, you can also increase the seed's quality using the analyzer machine, under experiment on flora. I increasde a bluebell seed to magnificant, then planted it at made it to perfect the next evolving stage.
Im playing the millionaire scenario and my Single sim is only allowed to write books or harvest plants !!! 😂 Thanks Petey - I did not know you could plant them INDOORS ?! I've been playing since Bob Newbie 😂😂😂
Here's a tip if you are going all-in on having the biggest garden: live underground. You can build 4 or 5 layers deep with basement levels for sims' housing, leaving every square meter of lot available for plants (minus the little space for the stairs or ladder to go down). I made a massive 7-level subterranean fortress (4 basement floors + 3 above ground). It can easily house 12 or more sims with room left over for a 1-acre large underground swimming pool.
What an amazing guide, Peter. I love it how you implemented expansion packs too which enhanced the gardening skill. Question though: can the Copypasto spell be used on the Golden Treat item to get more golden chickens?
I mean, a lot of flowers are edible. I find it more weird we have perfectly edible flowers in the game that it doesn’t let us eat. 😅 It wouldn’t be very FILLING but like, it’s not weird to eat flowers lol.
I don’t think it was mentioned but if your plants are sheltered they take forever to evolve. Like, you’ll think your game is bugged slow but EA confirmed that it’s intended.
Thank you. All of my plants are in a greenhouse and that’s exactly what’s happening. I knew something was off but not sure what. Been working my butt off in the garden and the results are at a snails pace. No fun! 😮💨 Will try the various solutions and hopefully it gets better.
question do the plants grow faster when you plant them in a pot instead of the ground ? i once planted the same plant next to each other one in pot and one in ground and the one in pot grew faster . idk if that just was a random thing or if that is a fact
It makes me cringe EVERY time i watch them just... BITE into a coconut. It should have an animation that has them not beable to bite through and they should get a sore jaw moodlet for trying to just eat a coconut like an apple
One thing I don’t see mentioned often is that you can change the sex of a sim’s baby by feeding the mother either strawberries for a girl and carrots for a boy during pregnancy. Good for legacy players with particular inheritance rules or storytelling!!
That's awesome. I didn't know that. I'll have to try it next game play.❤❤
Strawberries and Pop music for girls. Carrots and Alternative music for boys. If you eat at least 3 of the crop per trimester, and listen to at least one hour of the music per trimester, your selection is all but guaranteed. I've used this for years and it's never yet failed.
@@opinionatedlibra1934 - It was implemented in a patch in 2015. Check out my other reply for more detail of how it works.
Been playing sims for years and I swear I learn something new each day. Thanks for the tip!
The gardening skill and aspiration is a really good one to give the whole household. Because as long as one does the hard work, the others have just got to do a really tiny bit of work in comparison. The cow plant and excellent plants count as long as they’re in your garden, even if your other sim made them.
Thanks so much for sharing this awesome tip Jay :)
Even a dead cow plant will count for completing the independent botanist aspiration.
I like to invite over other sims I know who like gardening, add them to group, and then select Weed Together. Indentured servants from around the neighborhood.
“You’re a really good gardener? *BECOME FIREPROOF”*
I was surprised to hear that! And I've played Sims since Sims 2! 😂
It's so weird that the gardening reward trait for freelance botanist gives you fireproof sims. Did their veggies give them so many vitamins they became superhuman or something? lol. Thanks for the video!
Btw, you need Outdoor Retreat to be able to craft garden pots on the woodworking table.
Also, if you have Get to Work expansion, the analyzer can help you rapidly increase the quality of your plants. Any YA or older sim with at least lvl 5 in gardening can use the Analyze Plant interaction which can turn your plant into the same plant but 1 quality level higher (it can also drop it all the way back to Normal). This works best on fast growing plants like parsley: you plant them, harvest them the next day, analyze them, then you plant the improved quality herb. And on and on, all the way to Perfect quality. Then you can take a cutting from a more valuable plant and splice it onto your parsley. This way will allow you to max the quality of your entire garden pretty fast. You just need one perfect plant.
Thanks so much Wasienka for clarifying/ correcting me :), appreciate it and apologies the outdoor retreat info wasn't in the vid! And thanks for the analyzer info too! Defs a great thing to make use of!
Thank for the Analyze plant tip. Missed that one... And I have had several Sims follow the scientist career up to level 10.😞
My best tip for gardening is to build a huge two story building. Add a glass roof. Delete the walls and floors. Add columns if you feel the need. Now plant everything underneath this "greenhouse ". Everything should grow year round. Don't forget the bee box!
Should have done this. I lost a sim to lightning due to making them care for their plants in the rain 😭
This was so awesome! Just a little sidenote for those who may not know and that you have mentioned in previous videos, the bees also produce beeswax as well as honey if you have eco lifestyle. The beeswax can be used to make candles! I really enjoy how this skill is so integrated with so many expansion packs! Thank you so much for sharing this in depth video! It was amazing as always.
You da best Reading! Thanks for the bonus tip :D
Green Fiend from Eco Lifestyle is also a great trait for a gardener as they will autonomously garden and can talk to plants at gardening level 1 instead of much later in the skill. I find that if you pair this trait with Loves Outdoors, it works really well.
That is such a useful hot tip! Thank you so much for sharing Sabrina! That will definitely come in handy when gardening :).
I really like mixing Gardening skill with Juice Fizzing and Flower arranging gameplay wise.
The festivals from city living are the best place to get harvestables
My son once got the UFO plant there
Can't tell you how much i appreciate your video lol
Thank you so much for the kind comment Mason :D
Hey, I know this is totally random and not related to this video but I wanted to share some information that I’m not entirely sure if you happen to know but I thought it was an amazing hack. I recently started trying to complete the super parent aspiration, so I was watching one of your videos about how to raise your children’s character traits, and I was having trouble building the emotional control… I know you can write in a journal and as a teen go on runs/jogs and things like that but I felt like the options were very limited to children… but then I discovered children can do yoga and meditate! Which builds up emotional control and not just that, it also builds two skills at the same time, motor and logic. Again, I just thought this was an amazing discovery and I thought you should know in case you didn’t 😬
also if you have tiny living with a micro home (32 tiles or less) then all gardeing plants grow twice as fast and skill building gets a 2x boost as well
Ooh that's super helpful! Thank you for that added bonus tip Jarod! 😊
in addition to copypasto and herbio, spellcaster sims can also use floralorial to instantly take care of a single plant
Thank you for sharing that awesome added tip Lawrence :)
"You can't go munching on flowers because that would be weird" 😂 Love ya, Petey
Artichokes are flowers. Ands plenty of flowers (nasturtiums for example) are actually edible.
@@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059 😂🤣 10 months later and I get another laugh out of this one... This is good quality
Do you even play the sims?
Yes. I have been playing the sims since Sims 1. I am also a gardener in real life. @@DwarfDragonwulf
I am truly enjoying your Skill Guides. I have been a Sims Player for 18 years, and you have helped me really fall in love with the Sims 4 and I look forward to watching your skill guides Thank you So much!
LeAnna! Thank you so much for the super kind comment! I really appreciate it :D I am so glad that the guides are helping, and I'll be sure to do more skill guides in the future.
Thanks for another great video! I've been playing the Sims games since Sims 1, and I almost always learn something new from your videos - this one included.
One thing to note that I didn't see in the video: You can often get Uncommon and Rare plants easily via the gardening and grocery stalls in Henford-on-Bagley, especially during festivals when they sell mystery boxes. Additionally, the magic shops in the Magic Realm sometimes have these plants, too, and I've found Death Flowers there multiple times. (We need to check every day after they re-stock until we get lucky, of course...can't have it be TOO easy.)
Ooh thanks so much for sharing that great added tip Tantara! Definitely something good to make use of!
You’re videos are always soooo good. I’m a heavy sim-er and always have a garden. Learned a bunch of details from your video. Much appreciated!!!
Thank you so much for the kind comment Lindsey! :) Really appreciate it!
You missed out the Eco Lifestyle gardening content:
Vertical planters (inc. Faux Meat Wall)
Hydroponic planters (don't need watering)
Community Garden (one of the Community Space sublots)
Soybeans (unique with 2 products from one ungrafted plant)
Bug Farms (produce Super Ferilizer occasionally)
Food Waste/Compost (fertilisers)
Green Gardening/Self Sufficiency NAPs (bonuses for gardeners)
I totally did Vane! Definitely an oversight on my end, so apologies for that! I might try to cover it all in a separate video sometime down the track :).
I always play with gardening but I'm so glad I watched this for small but super important lessons! I had no idea "vigorously ensure plants life" was the same as "tend garden" 🤦🤦 I thought it was a social interaction.
Ok, I've had this game how long now and had no idea gardening was this intensive lol. I just started gardening on my current playthrough while going to college as a side hobby. Never knew it was this involved and had so much potential for fun/money. Thanks for the informative vid!
Couple things, you missed out on the Eco Living content that helps out gardening quite a bit. The vertical planters are great for saving lot space. Civil Designer sims can fabricate hydroponic planters that automatically water plants. Also side note if a planter is outside under a roof that juts outward enough it counts as sheltered!
Great video as always. Can you make a video on rewards traits and which ones are worth buying and which ones we can pass on?
You will be very pleased as to what's about to drop! :) It's been on my list for a long time and I finally got around to it!
Personally, I group my garden according to plant type. There's a planter for beans, two for fruit, two for veggies, one for magickal plants (like mandrake and wolfsbane), one for bizarre plants (like trash fruit), several groupings of flowers such as common, exotic, and holiday (i.e. holly, christmas rose, etc.) Trees generally get planted separately in the ground, and a couple of small planter pots get their own plants, super oddball stuff like UFO fruit and sixam mosquito trap.
Also, the vertical planters and the aquaponics planters from eco-lifestyle can be very helpful. The vertical planters if fully upgraded take care of plants so we don't need to. Aquaponics keep plants wet
Some plants will sprout almost as soon as you plant them.
Harvest all allow your Sims to harvest the fruits of the money tree, as long as there is at least one normally harvestable plant close enough to the money tree.
You can take a cutting from the money tree and graft it on any other plant. If the receiving plant is of the perfect quality, you'll be able to harvest perfect money fruits that you can plant to get more perfect money trees.
Another way to have your plants sheltered : Plant them close to the house. You can even extend the overhang of your roofs to enlarge the sheltered area.
Thank you for acknowledging the complexity of this skill. Its so confusing. Hopefully this guide will help me see a difference in progress cus I really wanna explore this skill.
I’m surprised Eco Lifestyle got no love in this video-the vertical planter, the hydro planter, even the little bug farm.
How does the bug farm affect gardening?
@@reading1713 I think you can use the big farm products for fertilizing.
LilMami! This is true! And to be honest is a bit of an oversight on my end, so apologies for that! Eco Lifestyle defs adds a few cool features (as you've mentioned) to gardening :).
@@reading1713 you can get fertilizer from it for one thing, but it definitely feels like a great addition to farm or garden game play imo!
My top tip has to be seasonal rotation - by which i mean putting out of season plants into your household inventory and planting seasonal ones in their place. It just gives a bit of variety and doesn't effect the quality or growth state, good for builds eith small gardens too. Starting a play from autumn for those Harvest Fest gnomes and their free seeds too, only reason i keep those guys around!
Hi Peter, I just installed most of the expansion packs on my PC and your videos realllllly helped me with the tiniest details for me to get started everything. Thank you so much!🎉🎉🎉❤❤
Hooray! I am glad that they're helping Theresia :D Thanks for the kind comment!
I splice plants onto chocoberry or some other all season plant to make them be able to grow all seasons lol
I’ve been doing that with sage since the Seasons pack.
The smallest house in Tiny Living also gives a boost to gardening in addition to building the skill quicker
This was soo helpful. Thank you! The gardening skill is one of my fav in the game as it is so versatile.
This guide is AWESOME, Petey! Gardening is one of my favorite skills in the game, and the tips you provide here are a treasure. Thank you!
Gardening and farming two of the game aspects I play most often. Loved this video.
I honestly didn't understand grafting or fertilizer until I watched this video.
I literally was wishing for this kind of video today and poof its here! Thank you so much!
Thanks for the kind comment Amber! :D
This was so indepth! I love it! I feel so Inspired! Ya know what I will go forth and make the garden of my dreams! Thank you for all your help Petey! You are the best! Thank you for taking the time to even make this video! Cya Later!
Hooray! We love the garden of our dreams! Thanks for the kind words too Syeona! You are awesome! Cya later! :D
I have yet to make a save file where at least one sim doesn't end up gardening. If you aren't gardening are you even playing the Sims?
I play the same way. Even my San Myshuno city sims have rooms in their apartment turned into greenhouses. The skill is just so much fun. I love how it works with rags to riches in particular.
0:50 - the EASIEST way to start/complete your vegetable collection is to use the fridge and order exactly what you need instead of using the RNG packages and hoping not to get duplicates
This is incredibly helpful. Thank you!!!
Thank you for this gardening skill guide. I learned a couple of new things. Your videos are great!
I'm not quite done yet so maybe you mention it, but the tiny living pack's lot types are excellent for gardening perks
Ooh I didn't mention it, but thank you for the awesome added tip!
I love the City Living colorful garden box.
yesss the comprehensive guide we need!
If in the science career, you can also increase the seed's quality using the analyzer machine, under experiment on flora. I increasde a bluebell seed to magnificant, then planted it at made it to perfect the next evolving stage.
Your videos are always the best! ❤️
Awe shucks thank you so much R H :) Appreciate the kind comment!
Wow! Thank you so much for this video
oh cool... never thought about building a greenhouse. Thanks for the idea as I have a few gardeners in my game.
Thanks!
Thank you so much for the support Devine!
Im playing the millionaire scenario and my Single sim is only allowed to write books or harvest plants !!! 😂
Thanks Petey - I did not know you could plant them INDOORS ?! I've been playing since Bob Newbie 😂😂😂
This was the best most helpful video ever thank you❤
I'm so glad :D! Thanks for the kind comment Athenia!
@PeteyPlaysIt anytime ! I'm looking to switch to pc do you have any recommendations?
Here's a tip if you are going all-in on having the biggest garden: live underground. You can build 4 or 5 layers deep with basement levels for sims' housing, leaving every square meter of lot available for plants (minus the little space for the stairs or ladder to go down).
I made a massive 7-level subterranean fortress (4 basement floors + 3 above ground). It can easily house 12 or more sims with room left over for a 1-acre large underground swimming pool.
Not me playing the game for YEARS and not knowing about the magic tree till now 😭
What an amazing guide, Peter. I love it how you implemented expansion packs too which enhanced the gardening skill.
Question though: can the Copypasto spell be used on the Golden Treat item to get more golden chickens?
OMG more information i have big head now :D thanks
this was so helpful thanks I will try making a gardening sim now
Drinking game: when you hear “plant”
Take one shot of tequila 🎉
I love gardening in the sims
17:05 When the Bonsai tree turns into the inanimate object will it remain its quality as a plant? Normal to Perfect I mean.
I mean, a lot of flowers are edible. I find it more weird we have perfectly edible flowers in the game that it doesn’t let us eat. 😅 It wouldn’t be very FILLING but like, it’s not weird to eat flowers lol.
One more important thing!! If you have Pets expansion pack, please get a dog. Dog poop is a great fertilizer :)
I don’t think it was mentioned but if your plants are sheltered they take forever to evolve. Like, you’ll think your game is bugged slow but EA confirmed that it’s intended.
Thank you. All of my plants are in a greenhouse and that’s exactly what’s happening. I knew something was off but not sure what. Been working my butt off in the garden and the results are at a snails pace. No fun! 😮💨 Will try the various solutions and hopefully it gets better.
u have a such youtuber cadence
Love you petey
Awe shucks back at ya Luiz!
Not mentioned - but does using dog poop as fertilizer help improve plant quality?
Thank you Petey!
How do you keep bees happy cause inevitably for me they always become pissy
Harvéstable sounds so much more interesting than hárvestable
It's leviOsa not leviosaaa!
I don't know why but your comment made me think of this and I love your comment for it! Haha thank you Nick!
@@PeteyPlaysIt lmaooo youre one of my favorite sims yters❤️❤️❤️❤️
Snapdragons and strawberries = good to go.
Does anyone have issues with Patchy adding harvest to House Hold Items?
Can I spellcasters clone be feed to a cow plant?
question do the plants grow faster when you plant them in a pot instead of the ground ? i once planted the same plant next to each other one in pot and one in ground and the one in pot grew faster . idk if that just was a random thing or if that is a fact
You said that sims can't eat flowers, but toddlers can for some reason 😅
now wait a min LOT TRAIT ? i've never noticed that how do i find it ?
Upper left corner of build screen
Well, toddlers can actually eat flowers if older sim gives it to them 😂
Is gardening broken or is it just my game? My plants seem to reset by themselves frequently
I don't know if that's a bug or meant to simulate seasons.
I made my Coven’s fortune by copypasting dragon fruits 🤣
It makes me cringe EVERY time i watch them just... BITE into a coconut. It should have an animation that has them not beable to bite through and they should get a sore jaw moodlet for trying to just eat a coconut like an apple
Munching on flowers is weird? This guy clearly didn’t grow up in a rural area lmao