Sim Garden?

None that I know of, apart from garden design software....but one has to wonder whether a gardening sim program might be ( wait for it ).. full of bugs. Ahem.

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I can't remember where but someone used to have a small real garden ( a couple of metres square ) with a robot arm in the middle. You could make the arm do the weeding and watering etc. over the internet.

More usefully, I'd look at something indoors - a terrarium/bottle garden or a few window boxes maybe ...

Which of

Well, The Sims has some gardening in it. Plant flowers, and don't hire a gardener, or water them yourself, and they die. The Unleashed expansion pack added vegetables gardens that you need to weed and water, and then you can harvest them, and save money on your grocery bills.

Compared to how someone who "gardens" views a garden, it's pretty unrealistic, but it comes close to simulating how non-gardeners view their landscape, and now vegetable gardens.

Hmmm.... I wonder if a Sim game focusing on gardening would be commercially viable. Gardening isn't exactly rock 'em, sock 'em action, but those goofy virtual pets had their day in the sun a couple of years ago.

There was Sim Farm, which I found a little off-putting because it seemed to concentrate on equipment and buildings, and didn't allow for, say, small plots of designer veg. "Ever Growing Garden" was a 'game' for 3-8yr olds, but mildly amusing.

For a no-garden challange, she might try culinary sprouts (alfalfa, mung bean, broccoli, etc.). Or windowsill herbs -- instead of digging, watering & weeding, one could be occupied racing around a house to capture sunlight. Forced bulbs compact a growing season into a few weeks. Miniature gardening in fish tanks and the like is a possibility.

's traditional, innit...

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I believe there was a "Sim Farm". That's close. For the guy who thought buggy was funny, there was "Sim Ant".

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There was a really cute game from Mediavision (came bundled with sound card and cd-rom kit) where you could plant and harvest stuff (corn, tomatoes, flowers, etc). You could also grow topiary bushes and cut them into fun (preset) shapes. The was also a whack-a-gopher game with it. But unless your wife is five years old, she probably wouldn't get more than couple hours of entertainment out of it.

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"Forever Growing Garden" a C-Wave Product, published by MediaVision, circa

My daughter is always sending me new downloads to add to the Sims. One of them was a clover patch. After making a nice little clover lawn, I discovered there were leprichans living in it. They will sneak in your house and steal anything they can carry away.

When your yard is snow covered almost any yard will be fun to play in.

Jeana