Thanks
@Metropolis Man for your welcoming! It really touches me.
I had much fun doing challenges here a few years ago (2020! I din't thought it was SO long ago!) but was not inspirated anymore lately.
I really didn't expect to win this one but really wanted to have a try because I love gardening with my sims
@Vesper , thank you! You're right, it was the perfect challenge for my return
I'm impressed that you managed to get connections reward on day one! I even didn't think of it.
And moreover you got enough reward points to get the money tree, wow!
So here is my strategy :
I installed my sim in Henford on Bagley (which doesn't really matter).
What matters is that i made him buy all the possible seeds at the Henford’s market, going there every day to look for what i did not yet have. They often sell some rare products (for an example, I managed to get death flower and dragon fruit).
I planted everything I could outdoors (one specimen of each plant) depending on the season (I set autumn on 28 days and finally managed to have 42 different plants growing outside) because in general the plants are doing better than under cover.
I put plants that were out of season in a greenhouse (I had 32 different growing plants at the end).
While I got most of my seeds at Henford’s market I also had some thanks to my scarecrow by searching in his pockets (orchids!) ,harvest some mushrooms and raspberry in the forest near to my house and bought growfruit seed at Granite Falls camping stand.
I also had 2 bee houses, one outside and one in the greenhouse, in order to pollinate the plants. I befriended the bees every day and made them pollinate the plants.
I fertilized the plants that give the most expensive products with growfruits.
My gardener also planted the 5 different giant vegetables and gave them as better fertilizer as possible each day.
They were ready to harvest a few days before market day but I let them wait!
4 days before market day I began not to harvest my plants, so that they would have the max of products on them for market day.
I saved all my aspirations points to buy the money tree, and it did grow a few days before market day.
This one gave me much money, and what gave me also much money was the vendor table: I set the earnings at 300% and sold my most expensive vegetables on it on market day, doing a “garage sale” in front of my house: giant vegetables, death flowers, orchids and dragon fruits gave me 1500 to 2500 $ each.
I sold the other products just by clicking on them while harvesting.
I did the harvesting process 2 times during the 24 hours of market day: first time at week 2,day 7, 8 am and second time at week 3, day 1, 5 am (as soon as the new products popped up on some of the plants).
I was lucky not to have the bug of plants becoming dirt piles!
For the gardener career, I tried to be one day working from home and the next day going to work, in order to progress quickly. And I always went to work in a good mood (energized or focused).
But that was sure not the best strategy,
@Nandarelle and
@Vesper did this much better!
Very happy to be with you all again
