Gardening Guide

[Pam]

I don't remember the exact time.  It was rather late, though.  I got it after PJ posted his comment above, so it was after midnight last night.  When I launched the game, there was a window that said an update is available and asked if I want to download it.  I said yes and it started.  It took a good while to finish, too. 

[Metropolis Man]

I bet it did. Have you seen the official changes list for 1.5/1.6? It's a mile long!

[PJSim]

... after PJ posted his comment above

I'm a she!

I got the update about an hour before I posted and it took less than a minute to download so maybe I was just lucky and was one of the first.

Fertilizing the garden with one click is awesome!!

It so is! No more clicking every plant all the time, yay!

[Metropolis Man]

... after PJ posted his comment above

I'm a she!

What?! You cleaned my clock in Renaissance and MAX Skills and now this new info? I'm getting the nauseous moodlet right now. (breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out). Okay, I'm fine now. 

[PJSim]

Ah, guys are so sensitive about getting their asses kicked by women aren't they.

I'm getting the nauseous moodlet right now.

Here you are:

[Metropolis Man]

Ah, guys are so sensitive about getting their asses kicked by women aren't they.

Totally. After I read what you posted I had this urge to call up a buddy for a man-date. You know, just to feel good about....being a man. I'm married with 3 daughters, so I certainly don't get that feeling at home.

I'm trying to figure out how I can steer this back to gardening. Pam, help me out!  

Seriously, the new fertilizing time saving action sounds fantastic. It's one of those things where you go — why the heck didn't they implement that from the get-go?

[Pam]

... after PJ posted his comment above

I'm a she!

Ack!  I'm so sorry, PJ!!  

Um, yeah...  gardening.  Well, let's see...  the...  ah...  plants grow...  in the garden!  Yes, yes they do!

[PJSim]

Ack!  I'm so sorry, PJ!! 

Haha, this seems to happen to me a lot, I don't mind. Not like Metro.

I'm trying to figure out how I can steer this back to gardening.

Maybe digging holes in the ground makes you feel manly?

[Metropolis Man]

I'm trying to figure out how I can steer this back to gardening.

Maybe digging holes in the ground makes you feel manly?

Good one. I prefer walking out my front door and marking my territory though. "Oops, hello officer. How are you today?"

[Carl]

Even if we can fertilize *everything* with the best stuff we have on hand, I think I'll be watching my stores so I don't fertilize things that don't deserve fertilizer. I'm a bit of a tight wad though, you may find that your tomato plants return more money with the fertilizer boost than selling a perfect life fruit, who knows for sure? Still people with high value gardens are gonna love this.

[PJSim]

Very true Carl, you may not always want to use this feature, especially in the beginning when you don't have a lot of everything. There are certainly times when I would want to control what fertilizer is used.

I often start out gardening and then when I have a nice garden with perfect plants I concentrate on other things. But I don't want to ignore that nice garden and then the micromanagement of clicking every plant EVERY DAY and scrolling through that long list of stuff to find the fertilizer you want is driving me NUTS!! Akh!
I love, love, love this feature and it's totally worth wasting some life fruits to me.

But I'd still be interested in seeing the stuff from your plant and fertilizer guide in table format like you mentioned. The game only rates fertilizer strength in general categories like Nice, Great, Outstanding.
For example life fruit, garlic and minnow are all labeled Outstanding fertilizers.

[sims96fan]

Garlic is rated as an Excellent fertilizer and I have seen Great for other things.

[nobi_fawkes]

Hi everyone. I noticed something about a week ago about special seeds. Most of them look identical, but the money tree has a bit of a shiny part on the rounded side. I'll try to get a screenshot of it and try looking for any differences between the others too

The info on the life plant is invaluable though and I know I'll be really giddy when I get a thirsty special plant   

[Pam]

Welcome to our forum nobi-fawkes!

I've noticed the same thing and mentioned it somewhere in the forum, too.  The Money Tree seeds are more gold than the other seeds.

[Carl]

Hi everyone. I noticed something about a week ago about special seeds. Most of them look identical, but the money tree has a bit of a shiny part on the rounded side. I'll try to get a screenshot of it and try looking for any differences between the others too

The info on the life plant is invaluable though and I know I'll be really giddy when I get a thirsty special plant   

When I was working on the Perfectly Happy challenge, I didn't notice any of my Life Plants being thirsty initially. I'm thinking this was a bug that was fixed. Can this be confirmed by anyone?