The Sims 4: Gardening - tips Sims 4 Guide, tips

Last update: 04 April 2022

If you want your Sim to be more eco-conscious, the Gardening skill will definitely help you with that. In The Sims 4, you can use this skill to grow food in your own garden - our guide will help you be eco!

Use your computer to choose the "Buy seeds..." option and choose if you are more interested in vegetables, flowers, fruits or herbs. You will find a pack of your choice in your equipment. Click on a bag and choose the "Open a bag of seeds" option to see what you have received.

You have to use a part of the area around your house to make a garden. Put a seed from your Sim's inventory in a place where you want a specific plant to grow. Click on it and choose the "Sow" option. Click on your sown plants and use the "Water a plant" option. This way you can learn Gardening. The 4th level allows your Sim to speak to its plants what will fulfill its interpersonal needs. The 5th level allows your Sim to fertilize its plants. The 7th level allows your Sim to collect seedlings and to use grafting.

To care about your garden means to cultivate your plants (use the "Cultivate the garden" on one of them). On higher levels you can collect a plant's sample and study it thanks to a microscope. A very interesting possibility is to collect a seedling from another plant. Seedlings will appear in your Sim's equipment. Now you can use it on other plant to modify it by clicking on it and using the "Grafting" option.

From time to time you have to weed your garden. You can also fertilize it if you have a necessary objects in Sim's equipment. Remember to care about your garden if you don't want to waste it.

When the time will come you can choose the "Collect the whole crop" option and you will receive everything that your plants have born (the entire crop will appear in your inventory). You can now sell it, use it in the kitchen, fertilize your garden, use it as a bait for fishing and so on.