How do you do Gardening in the Sims 3?

Ryanstheword: How do you do Gardening in the Sims 3?
Hey, I have the Sims 3 and I really wanted to do some gardening in the Sims 3, but I don’t know how. I don’t want to go to the science lab all the time as I would like to do it in my own garden, but I don’t know how to plant seeds or garden at all. Do I need to buy seeds or something, then plant it in the garden? Please help me, I’m really stuck.

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Answer by Kyle
So you can go to a grocery store and buy them im pretty sure you just go to your inventory and select them and put them where you want it then you have to water and fertilize with fish and fruit and stuff hope i helped please vote me for best answer

Answer by fixer29
you can either plant seeds or just plant whole vegetables.
the seeds can be bought in the shop or you find them laying around the town (they are the little yellow things) When you have the seeds or veg in your sim’s inventory you click on it and choose ‘plant’. and then click somewhere in your garden where you want to grow them.

Answer by Meeks
you can buy seeds from the grocery store, or you can find seeds lying around your town, then all you do is go into your inventory and click on the seeds and then the option of plant seeds will pop up. click on that and choose where you want to plant the seeds, when you are a more advanced gardener you can also plant fruit and vege. in my game i grow my own apple trees and lime trees, you can also fertalise plants with fruit, veg and fresh fish,
i hope that helps you.
ps. please pick me as best answer, it took me ages to type this up 😉 thank you

Answer by Alexander Morgan
Gardening is a very useful skill to master in Sims 3. Not only will you make quality produce leading to quality meals leading to higher mood buffs but you can also sell your produce and turn into a pro-gardener, making heaps of money with high-quality produce.

You cannot buy seeds, you can only find them across the town, sometimes in community lots and sometimes in the wilderness. They are very small and inconspicuous, but the Collector Helper (a lifetime reward) can screen them on your map and collecting them becomes a cakewalk. You should only find seeds of special quality like this, as they cannot be purchased anywhere. These include the Death Flower, the Life Fruit, Flame Fruit and the Money Tree. As for normal produce like: Lime, Apples, Lettuce, Tomatoes and so on, you don’t necessarily need pure seeds. You can just use the harvestables themselves, and plant them.
Harvestables are graded in several levels and your gardening skills need to be on par with those levels to plant certain veggies or fruits. If your sim has no skill at gardening whatsoever they can plant common harvestables: Apple Tree, Grapes, Lettuce and Tommato. To do this, buy any of these from the Groccery store and head home. You can only plant on your own lot. Open the inventory and click on the veggies and select plant. Choose your spot on the terrain and plant away.
To improve your Gardening Skill, buy a book about gardening, tune in to the Gardening TV channel or just garden. At level 5 of this skill you can start planting uncommon harvestables (i’ll let you find out which they are as you play) and at level 7 you start planting the special harvies. Thru a series of 3 opportunities, the chefs at the diner and bistro will give you the possibility to plant eggs, steaks, cheese and patties. Imagine that. But the phone for those opportunities will ring only when you’ve reached level 7 Gardening.

Additional info:

Fertilizing is an option you’ll have with a plant once you’ve reached level 3 gardening. This expedites the plants growth depending on what you use as a fertilizer. Life Fruits, Angelfish, Vampire Fish, Sharks, Lobsters and Garlic are the best as these have the greatest effect over the longest time. Other produce and fish can also be used for less effective results.

Having the Super-Green Thumb lifetime reward is a great asset for gardening. The plant you plant, will be one level better than the seed used to plant it. This means that you can start with a Nice Quality (2) harvy, plant it, make the plant of Very Nice Quality (3), and with good care it’s produce will be Great Quality (4). Then plant that produce and have an Excellent Quality (5) plant that will yield Outstanding Quality (6) harvies. Takes time, but the better the quality, the better the meal made with them tastes and the higher their price for sale.

That about rounds up the basics in gardening.

Answer by raito
here’s some garden guide for sims 3 :
https://www.lightchan.com/the-sims-3-gardening-tutorial/

hope it help you 🙂

Answer by nyxrain
When you learn the gardening skill in the Sims 3, no matter how, you are automatically awarded seeds. You can plant those to start your own garden, immediately you can find seeds in the local park areas around town and eventually just plant fruits and vegetables themselves in the ground.

Once you have seeds you find them in your personal inventory and right-click on them you will see “plant” and “plant many” in the options menu if you want to plant more than one click plant many.
Choose any spot in the ground on your home lot but if you are planting a tree it might be wise to think about where you are planting it, I planted a tree next to a mailbox and had to move it because I couldn’t select the mailbox through the tree – thankfully you can do that in the Sims 3.

Once you reach gardening level three you gain the ability to weed plants and voila~ you now everything you need to know to keep a plant healthy and happy, everything else just makes it easier and plants actually die of old age too so no matter what you can’t keep a plant alive forever.

Tip for a new gardener: it is extremely difficult to keep a large garden, I would recommend no more than 15 – 30 plants per gardener depending on how active they are because watering and weeding them takes time, I have had sims spend entire days doing nothing but gardening and had them throw away half of their garden just so they could sleep with a healthy garden.

Answer by Flutterlily
just go to the grocery store and buy some fruits such as apples and plant them by going to your backpack and cilcking that apple and select the seeds option. and also you can get free seed to bow when you walk on the roads etc.

Answer by Appmodo
tons of tips and hints in this topic

https://appmodo.com/683/the-sims-3-full-review-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch-hints-and-tips/