Gardening in The Sims 4 (Updated for Seasons)

I've updated and improved my Sims 4 Gardening Guide for 2020. This guide features everything a new player needs to know about one of the Sims 4's deepest skills. It should be useful in some way to both beginners and veterans to the Sims.
Gardening has an extensive plant list, fertilizing, and evolution that may be difficult for new players to understand. This guide explains how everything works and provides helpful tips to making the most of all these features.
We go over how to finish the plant collection, make a greenhouse, and make a massive garden that flourishes whether the player owns The Sims 4 Seasons or not.
This is to replace my original gardening skill video, which was a bit out of date due to recent changes and was not up to the standard of quality I'm attempting to set for my guide videos. Let me know how it turned out, and if you see improvement in my work. It definitely helps me get better. I hope it was helpful to any newbies out there.
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[@Tru1Tani]

I find it so funny how we started with a live cowplant and half way through it's dead 😂😂

[@CarlsSimGuides]

..and alive again. I was save scumming hard to come up with footage. As a noob I would get my footage and write script around that. Now I write script and get footage. Big brain.

[@Mtkrvi06]

I swear I can never remember to keep those alive. I’m working on a botany sim now and I’m determined to keep one this time.

[@aimeeinkling]

I keep mine in greenhouses and watch them like a hawk. I can also lock the door if I'm worried about rando Sims wandering in to eat cake.

[@VictoriaEMeredith]

I’m on my third Cowplant with my career gardener. I just keep forgetting to feed the dang thing, and when I remember to check, it’s just sitting there staring reproachfully at me with that pitiful hollow skull. Once the household increased to three, I apparently trained myself to ignore the “I’m sticking out my cake-tongue now” noise in favor of the “baby starving or lying in poo” shrieks. 😁

[@tealkerberus748]

VictoriaEMeredith cowplants store really nicely in household inventory. 😁 I also put the skeleton of one to guard the household crypt. Imagine walking down stairs under the ground, and turning the corner to come face to skull with that!

[@BrunoSantos-sb6vh]

"Alright, this is the third and last time I do a gardening skill video..." (and just because of this, someone at Maxis decided just now to greenlight the farming gamepack!)

[@CarlsSimGuides]

YES PLEASE AND THANK YOU

[@tealkerberus748]

Carl's Sim Guides does farming include real animals? I need real cows, real chooks, and real pigs. Please and thank you!

[@IBadmagicI]

@@CarlsSimGuides Is this legit, is there a confirmed farming pack or are my hopes in vein?

[@LadyBGames]

@@IBadmagicI Its not real sadly. :C

[@IBadmagicI]

@@LadyBGames 😔 But thanks for confirming.

[@mariesalias]

“They will be spread out and drive you nuts until you fix them.” Truer words have not been spoken.

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Can you imagine the reaction if one of those plants was not in a row or they were uneven... mass dislikes and unsubbing. People have told me in my next LP I need to center the mirror over the bed lol.

[@mariesalias]

I hadn’t even notice the mirror... but now I will, every time. Lol

[@VizFrost]

Fun fact: Despite being outdoors if a plant is under a balcony or second floor it is considered sheltered and still acts like a greenhouse. No idea why it just does

[@nicolasdiciaccio5529]

As long as they have a roof on top, they are considered sheltered!

[@salmasalam9648]

You can remove the floor in the greenhouse and plant on the exposed soil

[@djsyntic]

It's so strange that it's a focused skill considering every now and then while inspired my sims get the desire to plant something.

[@irishduchess7577]

DJ Syntic I thought it was inspired until Carl’s 2nd gardening video, too, since my sims tend to get inspired while gardening as well as what you said. Very odd, or typical Sims logic ; )

[@CarlsSimGuides]

The childhood aspirations are pointers toward the 4 categories of skill and help me remember.. all mental are focused, all creative are inspired etc.

[@nothingposted9056]

My Sim used go get flirty while gardening

[@szokeszasza]

If you have City Living you can harvest some rare plants at the Romance and the Spice Festival. I use it all the time :D

[@skyydancer67]

Spice festival too, if you want a cow plant at the least.

[@irongirltoni]

Same

[@thesupercheeseman]

I have over 3000 hrs on the sims 4 but I still always watch these, just in case you have a tip or trick I didnt know. Lol great video!

[@kimberlym9393]

I wish there was a "fertilize plants with best fertilizer" option like in the Sims 3. It gets so monotonous and time consuming to click to fertilize each individual plant.

[@ladyarmourlapras]

you called it, they added fertilizer varieties through cottage living

[@lindabound1701]

For the greenhouse to function as well as when outdoors, just keep the bottom dirt instead of a floor and put a thermostat in it, keep it warm in the winter and cool in the summer and your plants will grow perfectly. Love this video, I have made many Sims very wealthy off my gardens.

[@frankbelmont1565]

Fertilising roses with roses?thats how you get mad roses disease.thank you for your guides you really helped understand sims4 mechanics

[@ravenshin7775]

I love gardening in my legacy because it gives you so much $$$$ that it almost feels like your cheating

[@karolinapupi19977]

Could you explain how?? Is there something else other than money tree that actually gives you satisfactory money? Would love to know

[@ravenshin7775]

@@karolinapupi19977 I plant a lot of dragonfruits and it earns me around 200k every harvest. Sadly I don't have seasons so I really don't know how the money tree works!

[@biancabm90]

@@ravenshin7775 And when you're getting all that money from plants, you can just buy like 50 rare seeds packets, open all of them and get all rare and super expensive plants! It's so worth it. If you plant just one of each type and sell them all every day, you'll get SO MUCH CASH.

[@laurenlyons632]

@@karolinapupi19977 even if you don't buy the super rare ones, the certain flowers like Snapdragons, roses, etc. are huge money makers!

[@tealkerberus748]

laurenlyons632 if you have snapdragons and strawberries, both of which grow wild all over Newcrest and Willow Creek, then you just need level five gardening to splice them and get dragonfruit. You will never bother growing more than one of any wild harvestable plant ever again.

[@astrogirl5283]

This video is right on time! My Sim, Lola, is newly divorced and just bought a house in Brindleton Bay. She’s maxed out her writing skill and I plan on having her focus on gardening lol

[@irishduchess7577]

My two favorite work from home options and Carl’s guides (and now videos)are the best to make the most of them! Good luck to Lola-living in Brindleton Bay she should consider adopting a few strays. A house isn’t a home without a furbaby or two. ; )

[@kaiserslavaniaashur1623]

“Players will mostly use it as a side hobby” me with 10 money tree’s ontop of my house and no job: *hmm* Also i never knew, that the sprinkler thing was for plants... i thought it was like fun need sprinkler for sims.

[@Gamer_Mama_0611]

👏👏👏👏👏 No job, I love it. Money trees so smart.

[@Gamer_Mama_0611]

@FlyingMonkies325 I came here to learn gardening but hope to have a self sufficient vegetarian sim someday down the lineage. Someday I will know the answer to the "how many vegetable/fruit plants and for which season to enjoy"

[@AshMcMiller]

How do you get the money tree?

[@lichta1790]

@@AshMcMiller For money tree you need Seasons and 5k reward points. Then go to aspiration store and find an tree icon

[@lauve_id6848]

yeah i never use sprinkler for my entire life on sims..

[@joinsideke]

Turning my Sims game into Harvest Moon, aw yeah!

[@PositivelyNice]

Thank you. And I refer to you online lists/tables a lot. I basically don’t research plants aka don’t build my Sim’s notebook at all. Haha. I just go to Carl’s Guide. If you have Bonsai plant, you can convert the plant directly into a decorative piece on a stand. And Green Thumb aspiration reward really helps. And being a Spellcaster can give you a spell to revive a dead plant if I remember correctly.

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Yep forgot to mention green thumb!

[@danz139]

I go to Carl's Guide for EVERYTHING. Hands down , my favorite site for Sims 4 tips, questions and problems. I have that site bookmarked on the bar.

[@Belladreean]

You can remove the floor in the greenhouse, and plant directly in the ground, additionally, you can remove the ceiling to make it feel even more of a true greenhouse. My plants evolve just as quickly either way. I was actually really irritated when I bought seasons, as most of my sims use gardening for income, and it restarted half of their crops, and I had to re-place each plant within a green house built. Additionally, I have found that you can position the plants to be closer, two rows tightly place together, then leave space to walk on each side, this allows for faster harvest and care of the plants.

[@teagangraybill8160]

I always check your gardening guide. Several times a week, at least

[@VictoriaEMeredith]

I have the direct links to a whole bunch of Carl’s guides stored in the notes app on my phone. 🤣

[@anthologyofwhat]

Gardening has been my favorite skill since day 1 of The Sims 3. I think TS4, despite its various flaws, added a lot of improvements to it. I've been keeping up with your guides and videos for a while, and the fertilizer information has been extremely useful. Patchy yields growfruit (and PlantSim emotion seeds) surprisingly often, but this time around I won't bother keeping them around, since there's nothing special about them and they only unlock the collectable panel. I'll stick to the little rosebush in a pot that I store on my sim's roof-covered porch. I am a little disappointed that Sulani's fish don't make better fertilizer... Most fish I catch are either in the 10-20$ range or over 100$. Using romantically gifted roses as fertilizer will never not be hilarious to me. I do spend a lot of time thinking about what would make the ideal small garden, in terms of good crops to have around for cooking higher quality food. Tomato is a good starter, but unfortunately it only grows wild in that one community garden in Oasis Springs. ...Edited because it just occurred to me that it would be *hilarious* if they added a special fertilizer mechanic in the Vampires DLC, since in reality bat guano is such an effective fertilizer for crops nations have literally fought wars over the right to mine it.

[@irishduchess7577]

anthologyofwhat Literally snickering at the romantic rose gift to fertilizer route! “Thank you so much for your interest, but to be honest I’m just here for the fertilizer...”

[@tinyrobotgrrl]

Oh! I totally missed that they fixed the rare plant spawn on grafted plants. So happy about that. Great updated guide!! This is awesome!

[@jennw6809]

Setting the seasons longer is so important! I couldn't get anywhere on the default.

[@Panbaneesha]

Ooohhh, updated gardening video! Nice! My sims ALWAYS garden, for money and cheaper meals, and if it weren't for you, I'd not have known about the fertilizer changes and still be running after those big fish. Now I use quality Begonia flowers (Begonias because they seem to yield the most with six flowers per day whereas lilies for example only give me two). Hope you get a great start into the New Year!

[@oshinsims]

I started a legacy recently and I'm LOVING the gardening skill thanks to your last gardening video. This video came right on time for me, thanks Carl !!

[@CarlsSimGuides]

I really feel like it's THE main well developed skill in 4. A lot of skills are very simple but gardening has so much going for it. It's why I'd love to see a farming pack with some small livestock and farming equipment/corn fields etc. It'd work well with what already exists and perhaps give us some mass fertilizing options!

[@oshinsims]

@@CarlsSimGuides I 100% agree!! I am so happy you explored this or else I wouldn't have known how detailed it is. Definitely a skill worth building and a huge money maker. I'm crossing my fingers for a farming pack!

[@AlexiusDenelle16]

Just came from your website to find some tips on my Garden , and then this video pops up 😍. Okayyyy Carl, I’m here for this !

[@flyfishizationjones4940]

It’s strange how similar 3 and 4 are. It’s been so long since I played 4 that I can’t remember which is which. I’m back into it though and as usual, Carl has the best tutorials on the internet. I’ve been using his charts and tutorials since Sims 2. Cheers, Carl. Thanks for the years of dedication and hard work.

[@amazingasmr4434]

I want to try to have farming as my career. I am hoping this will help me. I seem to always have a hard time with it.

[@CarlsSimGuides]

I didn't go too far into the gardening career but yeah, just take it up on day 2 of your gardening ambitions. Give a little time for snapdragons etc. to spawn (or others depending on Season) then go for it. Search the hood, and if you have to rely on the seed packets to get the more valuable plants.. but I find it more enjoyable to try to hunt down the various plants, research them etc. Lean into those plants that are worth more than $15 or so before they are evolved, they will be worth more. The $2- 3 ones are just work + Xp. Remember the only major drawback to greenhouse is lower yield. Good luck.

[@2CraftySeniors]

I love gardening and usually have my Sims have at least a small garden. Since I don't have Seasons (yet) the plants grow all year no matter what they are. I use the various flowers to decorate the property and put the other plants in groups, usually only having one or two plants of the vegetable or fruit varieties but lots of the various flowers. In my Legacy family I have them attempting to have at least one of each plant somewhere in their yard or greenhouse. The lot is one of the very big ones, so that will help to give enough room for them all. I used the lilies in the graveyard area to mark the graves... right now the headstones are decorative, but as the family dies off, I wanted a place to have them that I can lock if the rest of the family becomes too morbid. LOL

[@tealkerberus748]

Ebba Lytle I just have one of every plant - flower, vegetable, and fruit tree - and between the dragonfruit and some of the top order flowers my households are all obscenely wealthy. Dragonfruit in particular, strawberries and snapdragons are so easy to access, so if they don't have time to search out the other wild grown plants then a bed of dragonfruit is an income stream by itself.

[@2CraftySeniors]

@@tealkerberus748 :) Yes. They have a nice 'patch' of dragonfruit in the greenhouse and it gives really nice income. But part of my challenge is to have all plants, so over the 10 generations someone will just have to find the time. LOL

[@tealkerberus748]

Ebba Lytle I like to do it in my first generation - they have to go into space to get the space fruit, and some plants you can only get (in base game at least) by buying seed packets, but once a single household has everything, you just tell them to visit another household and plant one of each in their yard, or someone from the new household can visit the old one and take cuttings. I tried harvesting the neighbour's garden, but the produce disappeared from my inventory when I went home.

[@2CraftySeniors]

@@tealkerberus748 Cool. One of the rules of my challenge is that they can't have careers or jobs so I'll have to get them to space at some point without that. Anyway, thanks for the info. I'll keep it in mind as I play. :D

[@sanyang66]

I actually started playing a new sim with the home Garden as his main source of income. It's awesome and very profitable once you know the best plants to grow for profit...mostly flowers.

[@tealkerberus748]

MsTV graft snapdragon onto strawberry to get dragonfruit. You're welcome.

[@sanyang66]

@@tealkerberus748 Lol thanks, but I already have them. You can get them from rare seed packets after maxing the gardening skill.

[@tealkerberus748]

MsTV I try not to use seed packets for anything I can get any other way. It really annoys me that there are some plants I *can't* get by either foraging or grafting, but even for those I'd rather visit a household that already has them and take cuttings, than buy seed packets again. And you only need level 5 to graft to make a dragonfruit.

[@SedTheMage]

Me too. 300k a day. Rediculous.

[@amiraazizi6452]

if you have realm magic pack you can buy directly at potion shop

[@aimeeinkling]

That's good to know about the Growfruit trees. Many of my Sim families have them in their yards, but I always hated the glow. I guess I don't need so many of them around.

[@aimeeinkling]

My dragonfruit plants though will continue to be planted everywhere and in large numbers.

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Yeah idk why, I hate the glow too. It just doesn't seem to look right for some reason.

[@irishduchess7577]

Living relatively near to Area 51, will concur that glowing plant life, animals, people, etc are a HARD NO

[@pinkninja3028]

Stoked you made this! I just finished getting all the expansions and needed a refresh since I took a break from sims for awhile! Thanks for another great video!! And for showing me all the "new to me" stuff! You are awesome!

[@TheBuildingSimmer]

I always did like gardening. It's great when you own a retail store so you can send your other sims shopping instead of buying from the fridge. With the green house, put your plants together by season. Then bring them out while in season and inside when out to get the max out of your plants.

[@jh3328]

I remember looking up your guides for Sims 1 on PS2 about 16 years ago! It is so nice you have a KZbin channel ☺️

[@BarbieFromQuar]

My favorite skill by a long shot! Thanks for all the tips. I use roses to fertilize all the time now.

[@personofthepeople561]

this is very helpful, thank u carl!

[@jennw6809]

Could not have come at a better time for me. Gardening has intimidated me for a year until now!

[@Kara-mu2ud]

i enjoy doing the gardening. thank you , in general for tips and such.

[@kaheipun]

Love it!!! Thank you so much! You are always the best at teaching and guides!

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Thanks! I make my fair share of mistakes but I love the comments section on our videos, as people will learn a lot just reading the advice of others and any corrections to those mistakes. The Sims community is really nice compared to some others I've been involved in..

[@Heather-Br]

Thanks for these guides. As a totally blind recent sims watcher, they help me understand what's going on in a KZbinr's playthrough.

[@ivyw777]

Awesome! I have finished translating your Gardening Guide (text version on the website). This updated video certainly makes the original one better！

[@missy_michaels]

Awesome work! I appreciate how thorough you are and how well you teach what you've learned. Thank you!

[@teslafox514]

Oh wow there was so much I didn't know about gardening... This definitely explains why sometimes my bees are livid 24/7! Thanks for all the tips and tricks, I'll be creating a new Sim who runs a sort of florist/produce/farmer's market shop!

[@jmelovesGod]

For greenhouse I would use a gabbled roof and it would make the greenhouse look more greenhousish (its late, I couldn't think of a better word). I would also use the roof tools to make the roof rounded some and flatten it, but that is just what I do in my game. Always do what you think looks best. My last greenhouse I made was attached to my house and I used the windows from Moschino stuff pack and the base game glass door with a rounded gable roof flattened down some with a roof trim that goes to the edge of the wall. That is usually what I do and it looks good. Great video Carl, can't wait to see the rest of the guides :) One tip for Greenhouses...medium height walls are tall enough for trees, but you can also make a building with a foundation and raise it to make the roof the same height as a medium height wall and you can stick a tree in that greenhouse if you remove the floor from the room. Firmament foundation looks the best to do that with though, because it doesn't have that thick piece that sticks out. Anyway, hope I helped someone out :)

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Yeah good advice. It looks like a bad shed in a way.. and I couldn't use the short walls I wanted without lowering the entire manor's wall height. Wish those were separate! edit; Oh yeah - I wouldn't have been able to use trees in there with short walls. Good reminder!

[@jmelovesGod]

I wish they would separate the wall height like they have the foundation height separated, if the building isn't right next to each other that is. I hope with Sims 5 we can have split level floors without having to do what we do now with removing the floor. I think it is too late in Sims 4's lifespan to add that in Sims 4. What do you think they will do for the 20th anniversary of The Sims franchise or do you have a video planned talking about that?

[@ryanpauloneeyed9669]

Great video, as always. I trust Carl's Guides for all my siming needs! 👍 I personally like to paint the grass the brightest color green I can, definitely helps the plants and flies stand out better.

[@lizburgess4398]

Gardening is my favorite! Great video.

[@elizabethpalmer5284]

Wow I learn something new about this game everyday I have only just begun to join this world of sims and I'm LOVING IT!

[@miri8851]

my sim is going to be a gardener so this is very helpful thanks Carl!

[@carolsh1983]

Great overview! Thanks for putting so much work into it.

[@CharlotteSunshine94]

Found if funny when you kept saying "grafting" like idk if it's just a British thing for the word to mean "working very hard" but it sounded funny in an American accent! Great video btw :D

[@maisies515]

Charlotte Sunshine means working hard but more likely to mean pulling someone where I’m from 😂

[@MagisterCobb]

Thanks for the shout out and for the video, great stuff as always. If you have University, another great way to boost your gardening skill is to buy the research machine. You can use the machine to research gardening. Doing so gives you a double dip in the skill department, you boost R&D and whatever you are researching. Finishing the gardening aspiration makes your Sim immune to fire so that is a benefit.

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Hey it's you. Yeah, thanks for asking about that.. it reminded me to at least discuss plant yields so people understand how it works. Nice tip on the research machine.. I may make a video dedicated to R&D as I do like the skill. I always felt the fire immunity is an odd reward, but sure it's one more benefit eh?

[@Heyits_sony]

Thanks for making such a great video. I love all of your guides and this just adds to their greatness :)

[@catecoxunderwood1472]

another good video 👌 I was imagining you having to shout over the sound of swarming bees when you talked about bee houses though lol

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Yep they were definitely problematic! I even lowered their volume in the vid because I didn't want to blast people with buzzing. It's especially bad on a huge garden where 40 plants are all getting buzzed at once.

[@FantasiaJ]

I really enjoyed your videos. I’ve watching a handful already. Thanks for all the wonderful tips.

[@KoZSeC]

It seems there's a bug that prevent you from queuing up fertilizer from the same stack: only the first plant will consume the fertilizer and get fertilized, but the rest won't consume the stack and get fertilized despite having animation played.

[@nokia6630videos]

Yup this has been going on for a while still no fix

[@chris7174]

Thanks! This helps me, your videos are great for learning the game features that I did not know where there or how to use. I came to the game for the decorating houses and now I am getting into the game...LOL!

[@ChilliDogDave]

very informative, much needed! thought makes me wish they took a step back, looked at sims 3 gardening then apply some of that to sims 4's current gardening for a perfect garden time

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Gardening fishing... skill challenges :'( Miss some of those features.

[@ChilliDogDave]

@@CarlsSimGuides and the RNG rolls! Nothing better than randomly finding a gnome while doing tasks or something failing just because lady luck was grouchy. Added randomness that i felt was really enjoyable in an odd sense but also made repeated plays feel just that bit different. But hey man your vids are making me see sims 4 in a new light and also unintentionally giving me new ways to explore sims 3 :)

[@mariesalias]

I wish they had culled the best things from ts2 and ts3, combined them, mixed and matched them, then innovated on top of that. Not just for gardening, but with other things in game, too! It would have made the game more fun and compelling to play. I find staying motivated to play in S4 a challenge all on its own. :/ But when I do play, it inevitably ends up involving a garden because I just can’t seem to help myself. Lol

[@irishduchess7577]

I miss that gardening pergola thing that had the composting machine attached to it from Sims 3. Three high quality produce and/or fish and you’d effectively fertilized a chunk of plants. Silly with a small garden, but I never end up with those lol.

[@Atayaashley]

This is very helpful and informative. Thank you, Carl.

[@MS-gu5jc]

Greenhouse doesn’t need walls. Just needs a roof above to cover the area (not glass roof is ok). So tiny house can have a big area of green house and also this doesn’t cost (when poor, walls are expensive). This makes plants sheltered.

[@zevathewolf7626]

Oh wow im early for once. Love watching these guides

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Super early, thanks for checking it out. This is a fun release! I love replacing one of the old ones with a better version and I think it is.

[@SavSav1996]

wow! I'm early! So excited to watch! Your videos really are the best!

[@CarlsSimGuides]

You're really early!

[@SavSav1996]

@@CarlsSimGuides holy moly thank you so much for this video. I always think I know the Sims 4 pretty well but then learn a million new things from you. I need to get Seasons while it's still on sale! I love that you can woo hoo with Patchy. so bizarre lol

[@woin9361]

Thank you for this incredibly informative guide! You’re the best ☺️

[@bucketbob6736]

Thanks for this gardening is one of my favorite things on the sims

[@JustinPalmerM]

Was hoping to hear your thoughts on the Green Thumb lifetime reward, and specifics on its effects... Still, good info in this video.

[@badbotfelipe]

Great video! I would just like to add that you don't need planters to grow plants inside a Greenhouse. You can create a room, remove the floor and plant directly on the ground. If you create a building with two levels and remove the floor from the second level, you can even grow trees inside (I haven't tested with max height walls instead of a floorless second floor, but maybe that works too).

[@livetrackingvideonetwork7381]

You did a very good job explaining thank you for making this video now I know all the skills that I need to do

[@imamountainheadtoo]

this guide is actually amazing

[@thornedreadlow9376]

🏆⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ this was super helpful! Thank you so much for this wonderfully complete video❣️🥇👍🏻

[@threeofreeds73]

Thank you for the guide, this is very helpful! The only think I would add is that you can delete the floor of your greenhouse and plant things into the ground and still get the climate control effect of being indoors.

[@4deiei566]

Your vids are the best guide👍🏻👍🏻.

[@simsationalvirgo6461]

Ypu can also use pet poo to fertilize. Great video Carl.

[@gzapray7203]

Huh. Never thought that Focused mood can BOOST Gardening skill. Thanks a lot.

[@spiritingaway]

omg i didn't know about the scarecrow :O

[@nurhikmahtamimi5688]

i learn a lot from this video! thanks

[@mizzbelle97]

This is perfect because I started a family farm gameplay. It’s really fun so far but (like everything in sims 4) I wish it was harder and had more depth.

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Yeah, it's no wonder gardening is one of my favorite skills given it's the only one that has a lot going for it. I mean I can cover the instruments and some others in 3-5 mins, vs this 20 min piece. I do enjoy 4 when I kick back and play, it's just lacking in the depth department to get me really engaged with it.

[@Qrtuop]

Gardening and piano, my fave skills

[@julay629]

That's a pretty interesting video, you did a very good job, thank you!

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Awesome Julay, thank you for the feedback. I have done gardening 3x now so it came out better than ever. Gotta keep improving and tough videos like this are great practice.

[@aliasilver_636]

I got season and city living at the same time and so I decided to run an indoor garden in the city. They never got to be evolved even after 2 generations. I didn’t use the glass roof (was living in the apartments) but did use massive windows. As such, I dont think you need the glass roof to make a greenhouse, but that might also be why I never got to evolve any of my plants.

[@CarlsSimGuides]

It's purely cosmetic and has no impact on evolution! Definitely should've spelled that out sorry about that.

[@aliasilver_636]

Carl's Sim Guides oh, that explains a lot 😂 thanks for clarifying!

[@tealkerberus748]

Did you fertilise them?

[@aliasilver_636]

Teal Kerberus yeah, with really expensive fish too.(this was before I found out a $200 fish is the same as a $50)

[@tealkerberus748]

AliaSilver that's annoying, then - in a suburban house you'd just wait until they were in season and move them outside, but that's really not an option for apartment gardeners.

[@emilythorne8386]

"You just straight up put a coconut in the ground" had me in tears. 🤣

[@CiinaBunnii]

Honestly I was struggling with gardening thank you for giving me hella tips that I had no idea about. I would garden everyday and then for some reason my plants would become a pile of dirt… it pissed me off

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

The cooking and gardening skills are my favorites ^_^ also I love your Sim guides. I HATE the beebox though...you barely ignore them for 1 Sim hour and they get mad and attack your Sim -_- guh. Plus I hate bees irl too so yeah...there's that...I don't need to be haunted by the sound of buzzing bees. Phobias aren't fun.

[@LuciusAccelerated]

In my experience I was getting MORE from plants in a greenhouse. Great place to put a money tree. The ones in the greenhouse always gave me more than the ones outside at the same level.

[@Micro-Nova]

Thank you Carl 👍🏻

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Funny your name's findme as I came looking for you just now, to say thanks again for the great question! I may do more Q&A, I can ask the community what they wanna know when I'm working on something and try to work that in. You and Ashley may have started something cool :)

[@Micro-Nova]

Carl's Sim Guides I think its a great idea! Your channel is an enormous help. I struggle to go deeper in the Sulani island expansion pack, I got it as a Christmas present. I haven't found a mermaid yet. Will have to peep at your video regarding it. I hope you make money for all your effort. I have to look into the patreon thing and how to set it up to support my favourite youtubers!

[@aiden392]

hey carl quick update on my pc for you warranty will cover the fire and i should have working replacement parts that will let me play again in about a week :) thanks for taking an intrest and i cant wait to get some use out of this guide ... this will also make no sense to anyone but you XD

[@irishduchess7577]

aiden392 Oh, lack of a PC during winter break, not fair! Hope everything goes smoothly and you’re set up again quickly! (And that nothing else was hurt or damaged. Fires are scary)

[@s181miri6]

I saw what you wrote before. PC-problems suck and can break your bank in seconds. I had my liquid CPU-cooler fail recently - noticed the game start lagging and CPU temps went up like crazy before my PC shut down itself. This was not as big of a problem. But it still made me worry because I can't afford to replace the more expensive parts right now as I'm in the process of moving and will be pretty broke for a few months to come. Anyways, glad it worked out for you! :D

[@DreamsRPGs]

LOL! that poor cow plant!

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Lol it exists in multiple realities!

[@ShadoeLandman]

You can delete the floor of the greenhouse to plant in the ground. Any sheltered space works as a greenhouse. Greenhouse roofs no longer work properly for me. Usually they don't automatically remove the view of the ceiling from above or below unless I make a fence around the roof area.

[@Ashpleeeease]

You're cool Carl, thanks!

[@Mistysmudge1]

I love the gardening skill, but i can't for the life of me keep cow plants alive lol Great guide :D I love patchy

[@tealkerberus748]

Mistysmudge1 now if only real world bees were that easy! 😅

[@CarlsSimGuides]

It's definitely easy to forget them. The one in the video died because I kept going back and forth between a later term save and a previous one, had him hungry already to eat bob pancakes and went 24h into the future super speed 4 mod... and yep, he's dead for like half the footage it appears in because I kept saving. Same reason my dog ran away in tips video :D

[@NatalieBass209]

Thanks so much!

[@GennyTheWolf]

One tip I would have is that I put one of the large aquariums in my yard, buy and move as much fresh salmon into your inventory, and then fertilize with that. After that...once you can obtain growfruit and get several trees of that going...I use growfruit as my fertilizer.

[@kaysims8727]

This makes me want to start a farm. Too many sims, not enough time. Brw, you can put up a roof on columns and it works like a green house.

[@jerichohazel9610]

oh, yes... grafting for getting special plants! I totally didn't use it to plant more stuff at the same time without using more space or having to take care of more plants xD

[@sistakia33]

I learned a lot from you 😉!

[@SylverScourge]

This probably sounds weird but your voice is so adorable idk. Nice vid though. Subscribed :3

[@CariYRichardson]

I love your videos!! Thanks for sharing them with us!! I have a quick question. So, I accidentally turned my sim into a plant sim. How do I turn them back normal again?

[@AskttlsX]

Thank you!

[@Whisper0ak]

I made 5 million simoleons selling dragon fruit and orchids. I started out selling grapes until I could afford rare seed packs to get dragon fruit. It's a little slow getting started but very simple. When I stopped "farming" I was making around $260,000 a day. I retired at that point and moved to a new lot. It's amusing to do the first time but It's a ridiculous amount of money and may take some fun out of the game. Your choice. About plant spacing... it really depends on the plant. Orchids for example takes up a 4x4 small squares, but dragon fruit take up just 1x1 so you can plant them directly next to each other in long rows.

[@penglingwhisperer3382]

This whole time I had no idea you could plant directly into the ground!

[@gh00stt58]

A person I know says that its pointless and boring to do gardening in the Sims 4 I decided to prove them wrong just for fun but ended up making one of my favorite Sim saves, I usually randomize what the sim looks like and touch up some of the weird details because I'm not good at CAS my sim was physically bigger so I took the challenge of trying to let my sim lose weight, sim now is the "average" size, now has a gardening hobby, still watches their weight, and has a good garden :)

[@ispeekrandom6464]

I don't know if it'll ever be patched out but if you pause your game and tell your sim to fertilize with the same item over and over it'll only use one item on all the plants I'm also pretty sure you can delete the floor in your greenhouse so you don't have to buy planter boxes. It can be kinda hard to get it right with either the plants telling you they can't be planted indoors or them being put in the household inventory if you make the room around them

[@ketugrahagraha3673]

There is another way to make a plant "Perfect" instantly. Golden chicken can be asked to help improve plants (it's like a standing order, not a one-time thing). Don't have to ask every day, it will keep making any new plants perfect. To do so, the chicken has to be in a "happy" mood though.

[@diouranke]

Oh thanks Carl, I love gardening in the Sims, I have a Sim who became pretty well off of his gardening alone , still have never found a flame fruit though

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Hey Nafisah (hope I got that right). Yep, gardening is a lot of fun in this version... I do regret to tell you this one doesn't have the flame fruit though. Nor life fruit, actually!

[@diouranke]

Hi, . I see I haven't done much gardening in the Sims4 then, but I look forward to trying it out with what I've learned. thanks for responding 😊

[@minionsofthelordbagali5324]

I kinda like your new energetic voice

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Thanks. I've gotten more comfortable with the mic is all. Used to get a bit nervous the moment I started recording which really comes through in some of the older videos. I make a point to only record when I'm happy if I can :)