Plants By Season - List

[scoed]

OK they nerfed plants evolving in greenhouses so plants evolve up to 4 times slower when protected in say a greenhouse. Plant quality is a big factor in profitability of plants. But due to most plants only produce in certain season(s) outdoors greenhouses are needed to keep a steady income (or harvestables for things like flower arranging, science career potions, eating/drinking, bar tending and cooking).  This forms a gardening catch 22 where no matter what your income takes a hit.

I think the trick is to have both an indoor greenhouse garden and an outdoor garden. You keep the year round producers and in season plants in the outside garden and all others indoors. Rotating the seasonal plants indoors when there seasons end and placing new in season plants outdoors so in season the evolve at maximum rate. This is a pain I know but it provides the best solution to the indoor/outdoor issue. Plants evolve faster outdoors so in their prime growing season they get that bonus, yet produce year round for a constant income. And I thought they said they made gardening for a living easier. That was a joke.

Outside of cheats or just being lucky I haven't figured out a work around for the grafting nerf. Well other than raiding another sims established garden. And yes these two issues of slow evolving indoors and poor grafting production are not a bug but an intentional nerf.

Info on what produces when so you can easily know when to move which plants.

Year Round:

Catnips (All Four Types)
Sixam Mosquito Trap
Money Tree
Emotion Berries
Growfruit
Trash Fruit
Cow Plant
Bonsai
Avocado
Wolfsbane
Plasma Fruit
Garlic
Sage
Lemon
Forbidden fruit

Spring:

Blue Bells
Carrot
Daisy
Mushroom
Parsley
Snapdragon
Green Peas
Rose
Strawberry
Tulip
Fireleaf
Poison Fireleaf
Crocus
Bird of Paradise
Morel Mushroom
False Morel Mushroom
Fang Flower (Tentacle Tree)
Orchid

Summer:

Basil
Blue Bells
Chrysanthemum
Parsley
Plantain
Chamomile
Toxic Chamomile
Elderberry
Noxious Elderberry
Bell Pepper
Cherry
Lily
Tomato
Huckleberry
Muckleberry
Fireleaf
Poison Fireleaf
Black Beans
Begonias
Green Beans
Bird of Paradise
Morel Mushroom
False Morel Mushroom
Quill Fruit

Fall:

Apple
Basil
Carrot
Chrysanthemum
Grapes
Mushroom
Snapdragon
Elderberry
Noxious Elderberry
Holly
Onion
Pear
Rose
Huckleberry
Muckleberry
Black Beans
Begonias
Dahlia
Green Beans
DragonFruit
U.F.O.

Winter:

Spinach
Holly
Onion
Potato
Pear
Christmas Rose
Crocus
Snowdrop
Death Flower
Orchid
Pomegranate
Glow Orb


Information taken form Carl's gardening guide but listed by season for easy use.

http://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/skills/gardening/

Thanks Carl!!!

[oshizu]

What useful information, @scoed
Thanks so much! I guess I will be resplicing my plants whenever I start a new challenge on Normal Lifespan so that same-season plants will be grafted together.
In my current Short-Lifespan challenge, moving plants every season is highly impractical because my seasons are only a week long.

Haha, gardening is now easier my plumbob! ;-)

[Joria]

I am playing in long life mode to relearn how to play so that may have a factor, also location may have a factor.  The following can be found in Spring:
Basil, Bluebells, Parsley, Chamomile, Toxic Chamomile, Elderberry, Noxious Elderberry, Huckleberry, Muckleberry, Fire Leaf, Poison Fireleaf, Black Beans, Morel and False Morel.

[Puppetmaster1]

Excellent information. This will be extremely helpful.  I just started a "Dirty Hippie Commune", and there is a lot of gardening going on.

[Highlander]

Thanks for posting this.

First time I glanced at it but didn't really read it. After playing a couple of games and coming back to this, it makes perfect sense. The pain is remembering to move them in before the season changes.

In my current game, I built a small greenhouse at first. I always extend the roof as far as it can go. Once it was filled up inside, I stuck the next garden box just outside the greenhouse. Next day, the plants started to grow. Even though they weren't inside, they still registered as "sheltered". I guess as long as the roof is overhead, it counts. May not work in the winter, but I'll see. Not sure if this is a bug or not.

[Playalot]

@Highlander  plants don't need to be inside to be sheltered, they just need a roof over them. So it's not a bug. 

[Zincht]

I know this is an old thread, but I am finding it extremely useful. Since I am using it (and its previous source, Carl's gardening guide), I figured it would be better to have all this information in one place instead of in yet another thread.

I have re-organized the plants alphabetically by season, and added plants from later packs. (Currently going through the cottage living plants.) The herbalism plants from "Outdoor Retreat" are listed in their good/bad pairs, alphabetically by the 'good' plant. I've also added my own notes, because there are so many plants now that it becomes cumbersome to grow every single one, and I like to know which ones I actually need.

Sims 4 Plants by Season

(T) -> Tree, needs its own pot/planter
(V) -> Vertical, can be put in a vertical planter. PLANTS CANNOT BE GRAFTED TO IN VERTICAL PLANTERS, but you can take cuttings from them.
(G) -> Ground, will not grow in a vertical planter but can share a planter box
(OP) -> Plot, Oversize crop, must be grown in an in-ground soil patch.
* -> this is one of the 32 plants used to complete the Gardening Collection

Year Round

(OP) Aubergine -> Used in Canning
(T) Avocado
*(G) Bonsai
(V) Catnip (all types) -> No grafting to catnips allowed!
(V) Chocoberry -> Used in Canning
*(T) Cow Plant Berry -> Must be fed at least once every 12 hours, or it dies. Very time-sensitive! Used in Canning
(T) Emotion Berries
(G) Emotion Mushrooms
(T) Forbidden Fruit
(G) Garlic
(T) Growfruit -> Best fertilizer for other plants
*(T) Lemon -> Used in Potion (Rejuvenation)
(OP) Lettuce -> Used in Canning
(T) Money Tree -> tree and plants grafted with money tree cannot be harvested under "harvest all". "Harvest produce" will make more money fruit, but only from a plant grafted with a money tree cutting.
(OP) Mushroom -> Used in Canning
(T) Plasma Fruit -> Food for Vampires
(OP) Pumpkin -> Used in Canning
*(V) Sage -> Used in Potion (Immortality), Herbalism (Elixir of Fertility, Tummy Therapy)
(T) Sixam Mosquito Trap
*(OP) Trash Fruit -> Must leave trash on the ground for a while to grow a trash plant
(OP) Watermelon -> Used in Canning
(G) Wolfsbane

Spring

(G)* Bird of Paradise
(V)* Bluebell
(G)* Carrot -> Used to make Boy in pregnancy
(T) Coconut
(G) Crocus
(V)* Daisy
Fang Flower (Tentacle Tree)
(G) Fireleaf -> Used in Herbalism (Natural Herbicide Oil, Rage-Relieving Salve)
(G) Poison Fireleaf -> Used in Herbalism (Energizer Infusion, Fireleaf Extract)
(V) Green Peas
(G) Kava Root
(V) Mandrake -> Used in Potion (Curse Cleansing, Immortality, Nausea, Perk Purging)
(G) Morel Mushroom -> Used in Herbalism (Fireleaf Extract, Fungal Infusion Fertilizer)
(G) False Morel Mushroom -> Used in Herbalism (Elixir of Fertility, Fungal Infusion Fertiliser)
(G)* Mushroom -> Used in Canning
(G)* Orchid -> Used for Death Flower
(V)* Parsley -> Used in Potion (Nimble Mind), Herbalism (Clear Mind Distillation, Deodorizing Cream)
(G) Pineapple
(V)* Rose -> Used in Potion (Transcendent Charmer)
(G)* Snapdragon -> Used for Death Flower
(V)* Strawberry -> Used to make Girl in pregnancy, used in Herbalism (Deodorizing Cream), Canning
(G) Taro Root
(G)* Tulip
(V) Valerian -> Used in Potion (Alluring Aura, Good Fortune, Perk Purging, Rejuvenation)

Summer

(V)* Basil -> Used in Herbalism (Insect Repellent Liniment)
(V) Begonias
(V) Bell Pepper
(G)* Bird of Paradise
(V)* Blackberry -> Used in Herbalism (Fungal Infusion Fertiliser), Canning
(V) Black Beans
(V) Blueberry -> Used in Canning
(V)* Bluebell
(G) Chamomile -> Used in Herbalism (De-Stressing Decoction, Soothing Skin Balm)
(G) Toxic Chamomile -> Used in Herbalism (Clear Mind Distillation, Natural Herbicide Oil)
(T)* Cherry -> Used for Death Flower, Potion (Alluring Aura)
(V)* Chrysanthemum
(T) Coconut
(V) Elderberry -> Used in Herbalism (Deodorizing Cream, Sadness Alleviation Lotion)
(V) Noxious Elderberry -> Used in Herbalism (Insect Repellant Liniment, Rage-Relieving Salve)
(G) Fireleaf -> Used in Herbalism (Natural Herbicide Oil, Rage-Relieving Salve)
(G) Poison Fireleaf -> Used in Herbalism (Energizer Infusion, Fireleaf Extract)
(V) Green Beans
(V) Huckleberry -> Used in Herbalism (Clear Mind Distillation, Tummy Therapy)
(V) Muckleberry -> Used in Herbalism (De-Stressing Decoction, Energizer Infusion)
(G) Kava Root
(G)* Lily -> Used for Death Fower
(G) Morel Mushroom -> Used in Herbalism (Fireleaf Extract, Fungal Infusion Fertilizer)
(G) False Morel Mushroom -> Used in Herbalism (Elixir of Fertility, Fungal Infusion Fertiliser)
(V)* Parsley -> Used in Potion (Nimble Mind), Herbalism (Clear Mind Distillation, Deodorizing Cream)
(G) Pineapple
(T)* Plantain
(G) Quill Fruit
(V) Soy Beans
(G) Taro Root
(V)* Tomato -> Used in Herbalism (Rage-Relieving Salve), Canning

Fall

(T)* Apple -> Used for Death Flower, Potion (Curse Cleansing, Plentiful Needs), Canning
(V)* Basil -> Used in Herbalism (Insect Repellent Liniment, Soothing Skin Balm)
(V) Begonias
(V) Black Beans
(G)* Carrot -> Used to make Boy in pregnancy
(V)* Chrysanthemum
(V) Dahlia
(G)* DragonFruit -> Used in Potion (Masterful Insults)
(V) Elderberry -> Used in Herbalism (Deodorizing Cream, Sadness Alleviation Lotion)
(V) Noxious Elderberry -> Used in Herbalism (Insect Repellant Liniment, Rage-Relieving Salve)
(V)* Grapes
(V) Green Beans
(V) Holly
(V) Huckleberry -> Used in Herbalism (Clear Mind Distillation, Tummy Therapy)
(V) Muckleberry -> Used in Herbalism (De-Stressing Decoction, Energizer Infusion)
(V) Mandrake -> Used in Potion (Curse Cleansing, Immortality, Nausea, Perk Purging)
(G)* Mushroom -> Used in Canning
(G)* Onion
(T)* Pear
(V) Raspberry -> Used in Canning
(V)* Rose -> Used in Potion (Transcendent Charmer)
(G)* Snapdragon -> Used for Death Flower
(V) Soy Beans -> Used in Canning
U.F.O.
(V) Valerian -> Used in Potion (Alluring Aura, Good Fortune, Perk Purging, Rejuvenation)

Winter (Note that you cannot plant anything outdoors in winter, as the ground is "too frozen to plant". So it has to be planted before the season changes.)

(V) Christmas Rose
(G) Crocus
(G)* Death Flower -> Used to revive from Death, Used in Potion (Prompt Resurrection)
(G) Glow Orb
(V) Holly
(G)* Onion
(G)* Orchid -> Used for Death Flower
(T)* Pomegranate -> Used for Death Flower
(G)* Potato -> Used in Potion (Emotional Stability, Forced Friendship)
(T)* Pear
(V)* Spinach
(G) Snowdrop

[Edited for more detail 2022/Apr/04]
[Added Cottage Living Plants 2022/Apr/05]

[scoed]

@Zincht thanks.

[Zincht]

I added the Cottage Living plants, but I haven't tested yet whether the morel mushroom and false morel mushroom can be used in Canning or not.