Gardening in The Sims 4 (Updated for Seasons)

Gardening in The Sims 4 (Updated for Seasons)

I’ve updated and improved my Sims 4 Gardening Guide for 2020. This guide features everything a new player needs to know about one of the Sims 4’s deepest skills. It should be useful in some way to both beginners and veterans to the Sims.

Gardening has an extensive plant list, fertilizing, and evolution that may be difficult for new players to understand. This guide explains how everything works and provides helpful tips to making the most of all these features.

We go over how to finish the plant collection, make a greenhouse, and make a massive garden that flourishes whether the player owns The Sims 4 Seasons or not.

This is to replace my original gardening skill video, which was a bit out of date due to recent changes and was not up to the standard of quality I’m attempting to set for my guide videos. Let me know how it turned out, and if you see improvement in my work. It definitely helps me get better. I hope it was helpful to any newbies out there.

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50 Comments

  1. Melani Y. on September 7, 2021 at 1:05 am

    Poor Bob. What did he do to deserve that? Ah, marry Eliza. LOL



  2. Koito on September 7, 2021 at 1:05 am

    Honestly I was struggling with gardening thank you for giving me hella tips that I had no idea about. I would garden everyday and then for some reason my plants would become a pile of dirt… it pissed me off



  3. Ispeek Random on September 7, 2021 at 1:06 am

    I don’t know if it’ll ever be patched out but if you pause your game and tell your sim to fertilize with the same item over and over it’ll only use one item on all the plants
    I’m also pretty sure you can delete the floor in your greenhouse so you don’t have to buy planter boxes. It can be kinda hard to get it right with either the plants telling you they can’t be planted indoors or them being put in the household inventory if you make the room around them



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  5. Mrs McMiller on September 7, 2021 at 1:11 am

    Do you have to have seasons pack for this & how do i get the money tree? Also i can’t seem to actually plant anything. I’ve got all the stuff for it but it just says purchase seeds which i already did🤷🏿



  6. Mr Nobody on September 7, 2021 at 1:13 am

    If your plants aren’t flourishing when the seasons change, they need to be polinated by the bees.



  7. Reflex_Buster 1 on September 7, 2021 at 1:13 am

    Watch that cow plant it will kill your sim if you try to eat the cake



  8. Leto85 on September 7, 2021 at 1:15 am

    Plants can grow vertical indoors now. Is this only a space saving option, or is the quality better than the normal indoor plants?



  9. Saif Privato on September 7, 2021 at 1:15 am

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  10. Emily Thorne on September 7, 2021 at 1:17 am

    "You just straight up put a coconut in the ground" had me in tears. 🤣



  11. adropintheocean on September 7, 2021 at 1:17 am

    Do plant pots actually do anything another than let you plant things indoors? Their description says something about enriched soil.



  12. panthercat38 on September 7, 2021 at 1:17 am

    Getting eaten doesn’t kill the sim anymore?? 😥



  13. oof on September 7, 2021 at 1:20 am

    My Sims are gardening in the sims freeplay.



  14. Nasya Howell on September 7, 2021 at 1:20 am

    I know it is kind late but can you do a video where you can get certain plants like onions etc.



  15. Sane Inthemembrane on September 7, 2021 at 1:22 am

    where do you get the death plant and in which season please



  16. Ryan S on September 7, 2021 at 1:22 am

    (Regular Sims 4 game on Xbox One): I’m level 10 Gardening and have killed all 15 of my plants. They also never produced fruit even after 1 full week after planting. Even though I’ve literally done nothing but tend to them, water them, and fertilize them for the past 2 hours of my life (2 weeks, Sims time). Plz someone help me



  17. Addi May on September 7, 2021 at 1:24 am

    A person I know says that its pointless and boring to do gardening in the Sims 4 I decided to prove them wrong just for fun but ended up making one of my favorite Sim saves, I usually randomize what the sim looks like and touch up some of the weird details because I’m not good at CAS my sim was physically bigger so I took the challenge of trying to let my sim lose weight, sim now is the "average" size, now has a gardening hobby, still watches their weight, and has a good garden 🙂



  18. M P on September 7, 2021 at 1:24 am

    Honestly sims 4 is the best at gardening. Really they went the extra mile for it. Its one of the reasons I like sims 4.



  19. Amy Hudd on September 7, 2021 at 1:25 am

    For the greenhouse just remove the floor of the room and plant straight into the ground



  20. Vito Setiawan on September 7, 2021 at 1:28 am

    Hey Carl, thanks if you noticing my comment, i have a question to ask…

    About the Fertilizer, is Rainbow and Gold dog/cat poop is a good fertilizer option? If so, how good are they?



  21. BlueHeavenly Lennard on September 7, 2021 at 1:30 am

    I’m not new to the sims, but I am pretty new to sims 4, so I am very grateful for this tutorial, especially since the Cottage expansion came out.



  22. Unlaced on September 7, 2021 at 1:32 am

    Which world/town is he using in the video?



  23. Aneesah Ajam on September 7, 2021 at 1:33 am

    I will get a gardening skill but not make a cow plant



  24. Mr Nobody on September 7, 2021 at 1:33 am

    I’ve found Growfruit (not anymore) then fish are the best fertilizers.



  25. Joanne Chisena on September 7, 2021 at 1:34 am

    FYI, in the greenhouse, you can delete the floor and plant the garden just like you would outdoors. No need for the planting pots. Save some money. I just had an idea, which would yield more annually, sheltered or outdoors. It might break even given outdoors is only 2 seasons of the year, whereas sheltered yields all year long. Maybe do an experiment and let us know.



  26. mangopy on September 7, 2021 at 1:34 am

    Can patchy take care of a cowplant?



  27. Jeremy Guillot on September 7, 2021 at 1:34 am

    Question: Can the sprinkler OVER water? Or can I just leave my army of sprinklers going 24/7?



  28. Thismychannel_lol on September 7, 2021 at 1:35 am

    Cow plant reminds me of Audrey ll



  29. Edgar Nello on September 7, 2021 at 1:38 am

    Ive been using the cheapest fish to fertilize thinking it didnt matter as long as it was fish.



  30. Hammer Jack on September 7, 2021 at 1:38 am

    was it just me or did this video not say anything about fertilization, or was it just not in the game when this veio was made? i came here to find out how to get fertilizer or buy it…the only thing my sim has in her inventory is trash piles or my other plants that i need to plant that i dont want to use for fertilizer



  31. İpek Çolak on September 7, 2021 at 1:38 am

    İf we have cats and dogs pack in game, can we use pet poops as a feritilizer? My uncle does like that in his farm😂



  32. Anarha on September 7, 2021 at 1:39 am

    I have six Sims. Five of them have a job, and only one of them working from home by selling plants. I swear, she’s the one making some real bank everyday by super selling the rare fruits making the family filthy rich 💀💀

    I wonder if I should make all of them quit their job.. but most of them almost reach the top of the carrer so idk anymore.. 😂



  33. Aru Miyura on September 7, 2021 at 1:40 am

    Being a spell caster with herbio and copypasta is the best gardener. Kill plants via take cutting anf revive with herbio. With that evolution is 100% after revival and repeat till perfect quality. Then copypasta the plant. Just move it via build mode.



  34. Ray Izard on September 7, 2021 at 1:44 am

    Graft anything to Sage and you can harvest it year round



  35. Bucket Bob on September 7, 2021 at 1:44 am

    Thanks for this gardening is one of my favorite things on the sims



  36. Diane Fink on September 7, 2021 at 1:44 am

    😀👍



  37. Flyfishization Jones on September 7, 2021 at 1:45 am

    It’s strange how similar 3 and 4 are. It’s been so long since I played 4 that I can’t remember which is which. I’m back into it though and as usual, Carl has the best tutorials on the internet. I’ve been using his charts and tutorials since Sims 2. Cheers, Carl. Thanks for the years of dedication and hard work.



  38. studying turtle on September 7, 2021 at 1:45 am

    What is the city on video?



  39. Kamelia Raicheva on September 7, 2021 at 1:46 am

    I came here because I need to revive my baby daddy. He literally yelled "pizza!" While having s*x, got up, chocked on laughter and died.



  40. Babyface Cloud on September 7, 2021 at 1:48 am

    I found that if you get a money tree and graft it on to other plants you can harvest them and get money fruit instead of selling it then plant those and make a garden of them making tons of money every day just have to sell the fruit



  41. Linda Bound on September 7, 2021 at 1:51 am

    For the greenhouse to function as well as when outdoors, just keep the bottom dirt instead of a floor and put a thermostat in it, keep it warm in the winter and cool in the summer and your plants will grow perfectly. Love this video, I have made many Sims very wealthy off my gardens.



  42. Odee Dillon on September 7, 2021 at 1:52 am

    💯👍👏



  43. Live tracking video Network on September 7, 2021 at 1:58 am

    You did a very good job explaining thank you for making this video now I know all the skills that I need to do



  44. Cricket Keeling on September 7, 2021 at 1:59 am

    Is there a reason why my plants would start misting green gas, when I can’t dispose of them like other dead plants?



  45. Ray Izard on September 7, 2021 at 1:59 am

    If you purposely or accidentally plant under an upper floor overhang the game will count it as sheltered, allowing you to grow in the ground year round



  46. Aru Miyura on September 7, 2021 at 2:00 am

    grafting made money tree become a money forest.



  47. Ashley Jarrett on September 7, 2021 at 2:02 am

    You’re cool Carl, thanks!



  48. SacredFig on September 7, 2021 at 2:02 am

    Is the cowplant based on audrey2



  49. Katherine Moller on September 7, 2021 at 2:04 am

    You didn’t put in the money tree or the tree stump that needs the magic beans for you to become a plant sim



  50. PixelLuna on September 7, 2021 at 2:04 am

    Any tips on how to harvest the plants from different locations? I mean, sometimes I find a plant that I don’t have yet and they are not ready to harvest.. I don’t know when is the right time to travel to get new plants