

Your Gardening skill level will increase as you tend to your plants, but you can also buy gardening books and have your Sim read those to increase your skill level. Once you tend to a plant long enough, the option to evolve it will appear, allowing it to produce higher quality product. A normal-quality grape, that can only be harvested in the fall Credit: Maxis/Electronic Arts via Polygon If you have the Seasons Expansion Pack, you’ll need to also make sure the crop you’re growing is in season, which the plant will say when you hover over it. You will need to water and weed them, which will show up as selectable options as necessary, so it’s important to check on the plants every now and then.

You did it! You planted your first few plants.


If you’re too lazy to go through all the training to upgrade your skill level, you can always use a cheat code. If you have the Seasons Expansion Pack, you can also chose a Gardener career, and you’ll definitely need to work on your Sim’s Gardening skill levels to get promotions. However, depending on the Expansion Packs you have and your dedication to gardening, it can be much more than this. At its most basic level, gardening in The Sims 4 is just buying or finding seeds, planting them, tending to them, and harvesting them. The Sims 4 has a shockingly in-depth gardening system, that isn’t too hard to get started with.
