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Gardening Skill Guide

From seed to simoleon — grow your green thumb with this rewarding and profitable skill! Perfect for homey players, challenge fans, and herb nerds alike. 🌱💚


🎯 Skill Info

  • Skill Type: Major Skill
  • Max Level: 10
  • 📦 Base Game Compatible (with bonus features in DLCs)
  • 🌍 Works beautifully in all neighbourhoods and challenge play

🌱 How to Build the Gardening Skill

Your Sim can start building Gardening by:

  • 🪴 Buying seed packets in Build/Buy Mode or through planters
  • 🌼 Harvesting wild plants around the world
  • 🌱 Using the “Plant” interaction after placing seeds
  • 💻 Researching Gardening on the computer
  • 🗣️ Chatting with plants (yes, really!)

As they grow their skills, they’ll unlock:

  • More efficient plant care
  • Rare and hybrid crops
  • A surprising amount of Simoleon-making potential!

📈 Gardening Skill Levels & Unlocks

LevelUnlocks
1🌱 Can plant, water, weed, and harvest
2💻 Research Gardening on PC
📓 View plant info in notebook
💧 Water nearby plants
3😄 Gardening becomes fun! Can now Fertilise plants
4🗣️ Talk to plants to boost Social Need
🌾 Harvest in nearby area
5✂️ Take Cuttings & Graft plants for hybrids
6🌿 Weed in a larger area
7📦 Buy Uncommon & Farmer seed packets
🐛 Spray bugs in large area
8🌳 Over-prune bonsai trees
💰 Super Sell in large area
9🌼 Use Tend Garden — waters, weeds, and sprays bugs in one click
10🎁 Buy Rare Seed Packets — includes rare and valuable plants

👩‍🌾 Careers That Benefit from Gardening

CareerPack
🌾 Gardener (Botanist / Floral Designer)Seasons
🌍 Conservationist (Field Work)Island Living

🧪 Cheats, Traits & Ideal Moods

CategoryDetails
🧬 Cheatstats.set_skill_level Major_Gardening 10
😌 Ideal MoodFocused
🎭 TraitsLoves the Outdoors (happy outside = better gardening)
🌟 AspirationsFreelance Botanist, Outdoor Enthusiast, Purveyor of Potions

💡 Tips & Strategy

  • 🗺️ Collect plants from multiple worlds to complete your garden
  • 💻 Use planters or computers to buy specific produce
  • 🪴 Keep your plants close together to make Tend Garden more efficient
  • 🌱 Graft to create rare hybrids like Cowplant Berries or Bird of Paradise
  • 💰 Selling high-quality crops = serious Simoleon gains
  • 🌳 Explore Sylvan Glade by befriending the glowing tree in Willow Creek!

🎥 Video / Gallery


🔚 Final Thoughts

Gardening is a calm yet deeply rewarding skill that fits every kind of Sim — from potion makers to eco-warriors. Whether you’re after cash crops or aesthetic gardens, this green-thumb skill brings nature to life right outside your Sim’s door. 🌷🍓

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