Did all of you miss me? I really haven't been doing much other than growing, harvesting and yelling at my vegetables in the ground. However this weekend something momentous occurred. One of my trees actually produced fruit!! I was so excited I almost jumped out of my chair and started dancing. It so happens that I have a cupcake tree and a coconut tree in my front garden and the cupcake tree sprouted its fruit! Once your tree has grown after 3 days; every day after there is a *random* chance that it will sprout fruit. I've talked to some people and I've been told that some people have trees that produce right away and some that takes a week. My cupcake tree is somewhere in the middle. I'm going to leave my cupcake on the tree because I think its so cute, and I will just make sure to pick the next one it sprouts. The trees can hold up to 3 fruits, after that, if you don't pick it, it doesn't sprout anymore fruit.
I've also been doing a bit of work on the back yard this past week. I wanted to make it look more European/American themed, something very Alice in Wonderland, with a BBQ grill. Ive had a bit of bad luck in my trees, It's taken me the whole week of growing trees and pulling them if they grow into a banana or coconut tree, to finally achieve this look. Ive got an Orange tree at either end of the garden, 1 cupcake tree, and 1 unknown tree growing. I'm going to hope for an Apple tree so if its anything else I am going to have to pull it and....you guessed it...start over. Once all the trees are grown in I'm going to carefully add in some toadstools and mushrooms from the furniture shop.
The Garden - And the tree bears fruit!
The Garden - First Harvest
Ok so today I decided to pull up veggies and take a look at some of sizes. The top shelf are some veggies that I had grown before, the bottom shelf is what came out of the front garden. I had planted 7 veggies, and bless the green thumb fairy, none of them rotted. I harvested 3 Below Average Cabbages, 1 Below Average Beetroot, 2 Below Average Turnips, and 1 rare Below Average Sweetheart root. You can compare the sizes to my pet and some dolls.
The top shelf veggies took me 8 days to grow and out of 5 plantings, only 2 survived but it IS possible to grow extremely large vegetables. For decorating purposes I find the large vegetables too large to fit into my kitchen or even into a basket, but I am sure anyone who likes to collect stuff in PS is going to be buying these up.
My new trees still havent grown in yet so when they do I'll put in another post, I also have another round of 7 planted vegetables started in the front garden.
The Garden - Day 3, Disappointment, and the back garden
A closer look into the garden shows how my veggies are doing. Right now the game has them tagged as Medium so they are progressing through stages Below Average, Average, and Above Average which is Days 4 - 6. The three veggies from left to right are Turnip, Cabbage and Sweetheart Root.
This is the back garden. Now the front one is Asian themed so I thought I would go with a more traditional European style garden. One with lots of leaves and hanging plants and a little fence. Now in addition to getting the black framed gate and black framed windows I also have lined the bottom of the fence with matching black chocolate shelves, like I did in the front garden. There are 9 plots and this time I decided I would go with Orange Trees, Apple Trees and Cupcake Trees. I've decided to plant 2 trees at either end and we will see how it turns out. hopefully I will get the trees I want.
The Garden - 24 hours later
Ok so, its been about 24 hours since I last planted the trees and vegetables. Ive got about another 2 days to wait on the trees to grow to see what they look like, but the vegetables are a different story. Taking a quick survey I am growing 3 cabbages, 2 rare sweetheart roots, a turnip and a beetroot. I happen to like the cabbages, I will be able to put them in a bowl for display in my kitchen. I am still hoping my trees don't cover all that lovely decor in the garden.
If you take a closer look and hover over them PS tells me they are in the small category which means they are progressing from Tiny to Very Small to just Small. It will take 2 more days for a total of 3 days in the ground for them to get to medium the sizes. The veggies are really tiny right now so I'm going to leave them in the ground for now and check back on them in 2 days. That is about the same time I need to check the trees anyways.
The Garden - Adding in the vegetables
I decided to move around a few things to give my trees at the edge more room and also so the ingrowing trees don't cover up the Shoji gazebos. I finished layering the grass floor with shelving to give it a more even look, and after using 2 of the 9 plots for trees I had 7 spaces left. I decided to buy 7 vegetable seeds from the garden at 100 coins a package. Like the trees the vegetable packages are going to grow into either a cabbage, a turnip, a carrot, a beetroot or a rare sweetheart root, randomly. It will take them 24 hours to grow into a tiny vegetable, but this is the fun part, they actually can grow larger over the course of 9 days. But the longer the vegetable is in the ground the more likely it is to grow rotten. There are 9 sizes:
- Tiny (Day 1)
- Very Small (Day 2)
- Small (Day 3)
- Below Average (Medium) (Days 4 - 6)
- Average (Medium) (Days 4 - 6)
- Above Average (Medium) (Days 4 - 6)
- Large (Day 7)
- Very Large (Day 8)
- Gigantic (Day 9)
The Garden, from start to finish, a comprehensive experience
My original patio was Asian themed and in my third room. Then PS launched the garden feature and I became really really excited. The garden rooms are placed on the first floor on each side of the pet's house, and at Pet level 30, I received 2 gardens at launch. So after a bit of playing around and being a little bit disappointed that the garden rooms could not have floors or wallpapers applied, I decided to move my Asian patio to the front.
I lined the floor with dark shelves that matched the shoji windows because if I just place items in the room they behave much like the bamboo leaf lamp and also cover up the plots. So my next task is to finish lining the floor with dark chocolate shelves and decide how I am going to plant my garden. I am going to start with Trees. There are many different types of trees, There is a Banana, Orange, Apple, Coconut and the rare Cupcake tree. Also from pictures I have seen they are also fairly large so I am going to only plant 2 trees; one on either side of the garden room. Unfortunately the tree seeds are like mystery boxes, so once I plant them I have to wait 3 days for them to grow, and then I will see what kind of trees I get. In keeping with the Asian theme I am going hope for either the Banana tree, the Coconut tree, or the rare cupcake tree (its pink and looks like a cherry blossom), anything else and I have to pull it up and start over. I hope not because each tree seed cost me 500 coins.
lol basic post about trees and fruits!
I will put in the appropriate information and everyone feel free to edit them if there's a typo or a possible error :D
Flowers for Dummies
These flowers are beautiful, aren't they? :)
Planting flowers are fuss-free and quick, compared to trees and vegetables. 24 hours and a seed is all you need. :) No water needed, no rotting, and voila! beautiful flowers!
There are 5 different types of flowers you can grow. Here's what's up for planting! (Please remember that whatever you grow is random!)
- Homegrown Pink Cattleya Orchid
- Homegrown Sunflower
- Homegrown White Lily
- Homegrown Luscious Lip Tulip
- Homegrown Blue Pansy
Flowers will be fully grown in 24 hours and then you can harvest them from the soil and it will go into your chest.
Further analysis and price of flowers will be provided later.
Vegetable FAQ - with Pictures
Each vegetable seed costs 100 coins in the Garden shop - the cheapest. All you have to do is drop a seed into that mound of soil and watch it grow, it takes 24 hours
There are 5 different kinds of vegetables to be grown. What you end up with is random (though we may come up with statistics in future!).
- Homegrown Cabbage
- Homegrown Sweetheart Root
- Homegrown Carrot
- Homegrown Beetroot
- Homegrown Turnip
- Tiny (Day 1)
- Very Small (Day 2)
- Small (Day 3)
- Below Average (Medium) (Days 4 - 6)
- Average (Medium) (Days 4 - 6)
- Above Average (Medium) (Days 4 - 6)
- Large (Day 7)
- Very Large (Day 8)
- Gigantic (Day 9)
To be updated with images and more :)
Hello everyone. My first post here! I'm excited. :) The gardening feature was released to Pet Society Facebook users (not Myspace or Bebo though) on Monday, 7th June 2009! Huge milestone!
Well - there are 3 different things to grow. Flowers, trees and vegetables. Posts on the blog will be generally categorized into 3 different parts - flowers, trees and vegetables. Check out the tags for a quicker search!
You should find some extra cells in your miniature house map. New users should have one garden, and if you've been playing for at least a few days (or even months), you should have two.
Down Pet Society High Street, there is also a new shop. Owned by a kind green-fingered old lady Mrs Appleblossom, is the new Garden store. Purchase your seeds (and pots after you harvest your flowers) from her.
In your garden, you will find beds of soil for you to plant some seeds - 9 in each room. Seeds are like our favourite Mystery Boxes - you don't know what you get out of them till they are fully grown.
The author of the Gardening Blog hopes you enjoy your garden as much as she enjoyed writing this post. Check back for more information! :)