I have a question about the Compost bin, I was told leftovers can be put in but how, I'm not getting that option.

I have one thing to add to the list of bad factors when being evaluated by the Garden Club:

Pet "puddles". For some reason (can't imagine why ) they weren't too thrilled about the puddle on the sidewalk.

Thanks a lot HystericalParoxysm, i'll take of my white hat for you.

If you have a nice garden in good shape and with a good room score, you can show it to the headmaster when he takes his tour. The one who came to my sim's house got very excited over the garden. Maybe he has a secret wish to be in the garden club. lol

I've got 8 plantsims growing a little over 400 eggplants. I should be making around $160,000-$210,000 when they are done, are these the best plants to make money from? I havent had enough money so far to test out trees and see how much they make, or how long it takes to grow fruit on them.
Can anyone tell me which are the best plants to grow? Also how many days they take, and which seasons are best to grow them in (if there is any difference).

I was wondering if there was a specific place to put your compost thing. I mean mine is full but I don't have an option of using it to fertilize the plants with it or does it do it automatically?
Thanks in advance.

Kaotic - you have to click on the plants and choose Fertilize -> Compost

Oh ok thanks for that Passion

Are the sprinklers even working? I don't see them shooting water in my greenhouse. In fact I didn't even notice them until I went to build mode and noticed that they were movable, what with them being so tiny and all. And do you still have to water the plants yourself even with the sprinklers on? Thanks!

I have never had trouble with sprinklers. My plants still sometimes need to be watered now and then, and of course they'll need weeds pulled, but for the most part I can leave them alone and they'll be okay.

And the sprinklers supposedly go off when the plants need to be watered.

If you have a big garden then you will notice the sprinklers breaking a lot. A broken sprinkler will constantly spray water, allthough it wont be as much water as when they water the garden like they are supposed to.

Sorry I dont want to read through 4 pages so I dont know if this has been answered, but I just got seaons and was wondering, where do you go to get other seeds besides tomatoe seeds? Do you need to go to a community lot?

You need to have a certain talent badge level before you can plant more things.

Go to the first post and follow the link to the Seasons FAQ by HystericalParoxysm, you'll find the answer to any Season's related question... Reading doesn't hurt.

When you request your membership for the Garden Club, they'll always inspect your garden. Take note, they'll always give you their notes on how to grow your garden.

Example (Not the exact one :P)
"Soil, the beginning of all good plants.
Some fertilizer or compost will make these plants grow even better."

Didnt wanna start a new thread for this so I thought id post it here.
Anyways I was just wondering if you change the order of the seasons say like you put winter last and really wanted to see what it was like and didnt wanna wait for it to be winter so you clicked on the little season icon in the neighborhood mode and changed the 1st season to winter how long does it take for this to come into effect cause I did that and there seemed to be know change in seasons so i just put it back.

So far I've sold eggplants and oranges... on one eggplant poll, if they're at thriving when you pick 'em, I've gotten $550 per poll... I think I got $99 for the whole orange tree but I don't remember if it was thriving or not.
I had no luck with tomatoes, so I didn't sell any, and I haven't grown any other veggies...

The trees will always be dormant in the winter whether they're in the greenhouse or not... the plants will grow year-round in the greenhouse... I think it takes about 5 days (or the equivalent of one season) to go from planting to harvesting/selling.

ETA: When you get the gold badge, you can talk to your plants and trees... make sure to do that, 'cuz it really helps...

I don't beleave you get bugs in the green house. so no need for the ladybugs houses.

I hope that when you gather compostable components that your sim dosen't go dig up all your plants, sence they are compostable. lol

yea I tested this already, and everytime it took about 18 sprays to change.
They had no skills, some with badges some without.
Whats great is once you change to a plantsim, you are able to everything to the garden, that a sim with gold badge dose.

Not tested but
I beleave that if your garden is in a green house you will not get bugs.
I also beleave that you get the bugs more often if your plants our dry.
And if you get bugs and don't spray right away, they spread to the other plants, if you wait a few sim hours to spray you end up with alot more infected plants.
The lovebug house's didn't seem to help me at all.
Also I don't know if anyone else had this happen to them, but I had fruit trees (I didn't want this sim to change to a plantsim so I stop spraying them.)
I had bugs on one of the trees and never got them on the other trees until I sprayed the one infected, also I didn't have the talk option yet so no matter what I did I couldn't make the trees happy, they bloomed several times, but only two trees beared fruit once.
I also read someplace that you could put the plants in your house, but I had already tested this (alot cheaper then green house.) and it is true you can put them in your house, but when I did it the plants didn't grow.
I beleave I am going to go test this out some more, maby if I place the garden lights in thair they will grow. ( I just found out that the plantsims get sunlight from them so maby the plants will too, I thought they where just for looks lol, hey wonder if the robots can recharge by the sunlights? hehe)

Probably the reason they didn't grow in the house was because they need the sun to grow... try putting a heat lamp (I think that's what it's called) from the gardening section in your house and see if that gets them to grow...

I'm 100% sure that doesn't happen at all (Tested myself)

Oh good lol

Placing a garden inside a house dose work, as long as you have plenty of garden lights, my garden was 10x18 and I had 10 garden lights but had to add two more because a few of the plants was not growing, (I also had the green house roof) it cost alot for the lights, but it is still cheaper then puting up a greenhouse.
You can also put fruit trees in there, they stick out of the house a bit but they don't seem to mind.
I never got bugs with the first crop, I removed one wall with the second crop, then I got bugs on the plants.
When it snowed It didn't snow on the plants, Maxis has really made a smart expansion, so if you want to have your plants outside in the winter and not covered in snow (its really hard to see when they need water, or even when its time to harvest) I beleave you can Just put a roof over your plants.


Sorry this list is incompleat but its a start.
Orange trees thriving pays 99
Apple trees thiving 176
Lemon trees thriving 132
Tomato thriving 170 healthy 110
Cucumber thriving 170 healthy 115
Strawberry thriving 204 healthy 138 sickly 66
Pole beans thriving 216 healthy 144 sickly 72
Egg plant thriving 400 healthy 264 sickly 136
Pepper thriving 306 healthy 204 sickly 102

I think it may also depend on the time of year, and there is also different levels of Thriving/healthy/sickly and that most likely changes the price too.
Of course I guess we could just open the objects in simpe, and take all the guess work out lol.

I tryed the boolProp/Shift+click and infect the plants it didn't work for me, I got the option, but no bugs.

Okay, I don't see an answer to this: how many days do you have to wait to be reviewed by the Garden Club again? It's been three days & they always tell me to ask them "tomorrow". Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you tomorrow, you're only a day awaaay. :D