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Tending your garden
Buying seeds is the easy part of starting a garden. It's after the seeds go in the ground that the hard work begins. You must water and weed regularly, and as your garden grows, pests control becomes a factor (see the Garden pests section for valuable tips). Here is the checklist for producing a bountiful harvest and storing
Don't plant to many plots. You'll have difficulty keeping up with regular maintenance.
Daily water each active garden plot.
Weed promptly to keep a plots output to it's maximum level.
Tomatoes and beans continue to grow after each harvest without re-planting.
Carrots and lettuce require replanting after each harvest.
Buy a pantry to store vegetables.
When you start accumulating fresh vegetables, buy a Never Cold Food Hold or Pantry de Province for storage. You can use either model to store home-grown vegetables or those purchased at the vegetable stand.
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Gardener Bob's plant tonic
Spending £35 on Gardener Bobs Plant Tonic does not guarantee a successful harvest. The tonic carries a 15% chance of destroying your garden plot. 25% chance of a super-yield. The other 60% does nothing. Sell a super yield to Gardener Bob (it wont fit in your pantry) for a whopping £150.
Garden pests
Bunnies are cute and cuddly, and they improve the room score of your garden. But, they can make short work of a carrot plot. Your garden advertises for bunnies after you plant 3 plots of carrots. The garden is checked twice a day with a 20% likelihood of their arrival. After the cottontails move in, they hang around for 3 days unless you are heartless enough to order your cat to hunt them. The cats don't mind because they earn hunting points while satisfying there hunger and fun.
Unlike bunnies, there is nothing cute about gophers. They arrive with regularity after you plant 6 garden plots of any crop, and they are destructive. Scarecrows, windmills and gnomes ward off the gophers by limiting their pillaging to one plot, then scaring them away for a time. Without them items, gophers will keep digging until your garden is shambles.
A more permanent solution than a scarecrow is to set your cat on the gophers. Cats love to hunt gophers as much as they love terrorizing bunnies. When the obnoxious critters go down for the count, the gopher holes are gone and your cat earns 15 hunting skill points, not to mention a fun and hunger boost!
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