I managed to get a couple of last harvests out of it, which is good because without that, I would have run out of money completely. But now they're all dead, there will be no more harvests. Emily can't quite bring herself to pull them all up yet... she keeps crying everything she goes outside. Perhaps it's still memories of Adrian working out there every day. One day, down the track, I might plant a small garden to replace it, in memory of Adrian.

While I really like the gardening in Sims 3, I do also miss the ability to hire gardeners from Sims 2. I want the nice garden, and I want to be able to potter around in it, but I don't necessarily want to spend every waking minute out there. I'd love to be able to hire a gardener to come say once a week, to play catch up on anything I've missed - or do it all if I'd had a busy week.

Or maybe, the ability to hire the town kids to water or weed it, so I can just harvest. Maybe that could even be a job our own Sim kids can do after school - to work on other people's gardens. And when they bring in a Seasons expansion (and they bloody better too), we'll have leaves falling - how many kids got pocket money for raking up leaves? That's something that could be incorporated into the gardening aspect.

Not to mention mowing the lawns... my grass stays very short for a game with no lawn mowers.