How much room does each seed take up?

[crashhat69]

The fire bar thing was at a light orange and I put down, I think 5 or 6 seeds and the bar was almost red.  If it takes that much room to plant stuff, how am I supposed to have a garden?

[Swede1992]

Which house do you have?

I figure that when I'm at one of those normal/small sized lots the bar is half-full, but apparently there can still be much larger houses on other lots. Maybe a more expensive lot equals a larger fire bar?

[crashhat69]

The only house that I've tried planting something at is the 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom house.

[aAa]

What is a fire bar?

[crashhat69]

It's a bar that lets you know how much stuff you can put on your lot.

[aAa]

Why is it called "fire" bar?

[n8thegr8]

Where is this fire bar located?

[crashhat69]

on the bottom of the screen

[Flynn Arrowstarr]

The fire bar thing was at a light orange and I put down, I think 5 or 6 seeds and the bar was almost red.  If it takes that much room to plant stuff, how am I supposed to have a garden?

It's not how big the object is, but the total number of objects on the lot that determines the fire line. On a full lot, sell off any objects you don't need so you can plant more seeds. Decorations and landscape plants/trees are good candidates.

Why is it called "fire" bar?

It's something that was in the previous console versions of The Sims and Sims 2 games. Each console has only so much memory it can use, so the fire bar represents the amount of used/free memory available for the lot. It was called the fire bar because of the in-game explanation for it - something about it representing the increased fire danger due to the number of objects on the lot.

Flynn