Everyone wants to pursue their favorite career and hobbies in The Sims 4, but with the help of Gardener’s career, you can do both while earning money at the same time. This career allows you to work from home, as gardens are usually made in the backyard of your home.
This guide will give you all the information about Gardener’s profession, including the top talents, career levels, job rankings, a list of best mods, and cheats.
How to Become a Gardener in The Sims 4?
Although this career doesn’t mandate a university degree, you can go to school and study to get a degree if you want one. The benefit of earning a degree is that you can make money and vacation time in Sims 4.
You should get a Fine Arts degree to enter the Floral Designer branch and a biology degree if you want to get into the Botanist branch. You will also need to learn how to get cowplant seed and grow it as you follow this career.
Being a gardener, you can grow and sell plants for profit just like you would sell art as an Artist. You can increase your skill as a gardener while at the same time earning money.
If you want to take a Gardener career in The Sims 4, go to the Career Panel in the bottom right corner and choose Gardener from the list of options. Then, you’ll be given the choice of a level 1 job, which in your instance is Dirt Digger.
Best Skills and Traits for Gardeners
Loves the Outdoors
If a person doesn’t want to be outside all the time, gardening is not your career. Because all the plants grow outside and need sunlight to survive, as a Gardener, you need to take care of them, so this trait is a must for this career.
Super Green Thumb
As the name suggests, this is a God-given trait that allows gardeners to make everything fertile by doing the right thing to the plants, like moving some plants to the shade and giving some less water. But you can purchase this trait in Sims 4 using the satisfaction points if you want to excel in this career.
Gardener Career Levels and Job Ranks
While you can progress normally through the job levels, if you have a degree with a high GPA, you’ll land a higher-level job. This is why knowing how to get a degree in Sims 4 is important. The Gardener career path has four levels, after which it splits into distinct branches, each with its own promotion requirement and salaries.
| Level | Job | Salary | Promotion Requirement |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dirt Digger | $140/day | Level 2 Gardening and harvest crops/plants |
| 2 | Soil-Sifter | $147/day | Level 3 Gardening and harvest crops/plants |
| 3 | Seed Scatterer | $161/day | Level 4 Gardening and harvest crops/plants |
| 4 | Leaf Cutter | $175/day | Level 5 Gardening and harvest crops/plants |
Botanist Career Levels and Job Ranks
| Level | Job | Salary | Promotion Requirement |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Plant Nerd | $320/day | Level 6 Gardening, level 2 Logic, and harvest crops/plants |
| 6 | Stem Researcher | $360/day | Level 7 Gardening, level 4 Logic, and harvest crops/plants |
| 7 | Sap Splicer | $560/day | Level 8 Gardening, level 6 Logic, and harvest crops/plants |
| 8 | Flower Fellow | $600/day | Level 9 Gardening, level 8 Logic, and harvest crops/plants |
| 9 | Bouquet Biologist | $720/day | Level 10 Gardening, level 10 Logic. and harvest crops/plants |
| 10 | PhD of Pollen | $2940/day | Harvest crops/plants |
Floral Designer Career Levels and Job Ranks
| Level | Job | Salary | Promotion Requirement |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Petal-Placer | $245/day | Level 6 Gardening, level 2 Flower Arranging, and craft flower arrangements |
| 6 | Stem Cutter | $294/day | Level 7 Gardening, level 4 Flower Arranging, and craft flower arrangements |
| 7 | Anther Artist | $420/day | Level 8 Gardening, level 6 Flower Arranging, and craft flower arrangements |
| 8 | Floral Organizer | $420/day | Level 9 Gardening, level 8 Flower Arranging, and craft flower arrangements |
| 9 | Leafy Luminary | $525/day | Level 10 Gardening, level 10 Flower Arranging, and craft flower arrangements |
| 10 | Visionary of Vases | $2100/day | Craft flower arrangements |
Best Gardener career mods in The Sims 4
1. Faster Gardening Mod
Growing a full-grown in one day is every Gardener’s dream, but with the help of this mod, you can do that with just one seed and lying on your couch. Suddenly, you will see 30 distinct species of plants grown in your garden. This mod particularly speeds up the germination time of the plant. Also, they require less maintenance like watering and weeding.
2. Gardening for all Season
We usually don’t know the pain of plants dying for people living in the north. So, to tackle this issue, Sims 4 has introduced an all-season mod that lets you plant all year round. You can grow and harvest year-round instead of waiting for spring to grow roses and corn.
3. Retail Produce Stands
Harvest is the best time for the farmers, but selling is very difficult, and sometimes, you find that all your harvests are stuck in inventory waiting to get sold. With the help of this mod, you can have a retail produce stand in the farmer’s market.
That way, you can sell for a high markup and don’t have to pay hefty commissions to the supermarket. You can also get a farmer market experience, a plus in this mod.
Gardener Cheats in the Sims 4
Press Control + Shift + C to go to the cheats menu. After you’ve reached the menu, type testingcheats on or test cheats true and press enter. After that, input any of the following codes to activate them:
Promote
You may use “careers.promote adult_gardener” to advance your sim’s painter career and get promoted to the next level, which has more salary and benefits.
Demote
If you wish your sim to go back a level, use “careers. Demote adult_gardener “. This hack won’t let you return if you’ve already picked a professional branch.
