Out of Season Plants Glitch

[Moozilla13]

Another option if you can't or won't use mods and prefer to avoid cheats is to put any plants you've evolved to a high quality into your household inventory when they're out of season, then place them back in the world when the season changes. It's kind of a hassle, and having to go to such lengths just to keep our plants alive is a bit frustrating, but at least with these workarounds (personally I use the spellcaster one), we can get by until hopefully this actually makes the laundry list to get fixed someday.🤞 

[rory_nutt]

This is happening to me! Mostly happens with the plantain tree, though I bet it happens to most of them as well.

[simsplayer818]

@OzSimsFamily That's a good one, I wish we could use it on console but if it requires "testing cheats on" then it disables console trophies ☹️.
If this bug carries on I may decide to use it anyway and give up my console achievements. My Spellcaster has to be everywhere, zapping plants until it's addressed otherwise.

[AnnieBannanie2]

I have a sheltered plant that's out of season and needs weeding, but I can't weed it. Worse, when I get a Garden Club meeting going, someone gets stuck trying to weed the plant. The "weed" action is never ending because the plant never gets weeded.

[sheridanhoughton]

I have found something that helps in this situation. If you buy a bird tree and a rabbit home on that lot, and enable gardening help from both the birds and the rabbits, the birds will get rid of the bugs and the rabbits will get rid of the weeds. If you already have infestations, it takes a few sim days to get rid of the bugs.

and I place sprinklers next to all my plants, so they still get watered.

[OzSimsFamily]

@sheridanhoughton fabulous suggestion.  Using the birds and rabbits and/or the sheep and goats definitely helps.  In my market farming game it saved my sims so much time. Unfortunately, I still occasionally need the cheat option to control the weeds bug especially if there are visitors helping in the garden - and it seems to be that the bigger the garden, the more prevalent the problem.  At least that is my experience when I compare my game saves from the basic 2 crops (lettuce and tomatoes) save to the extensive gardens - especially in the farming save where I had a huge market garden with a co-op gardening club.  My 2crop save is my loner-neat-paranoid-perfectionist-loyal-overachiever simself which is as close as I can achieve given that there is only a brief hint at disability in the “inclusive” “play with life” Sims 4 - my Newcrest sim-home has off-the-grid and simple living lot traits and is a micro home and there are lots of animals for company - very much my current reclusive lifestyle although my rl visiting animals are wallabies and emus… be nice to have a Sim-first with an Aussie expansion with environmental issues like introduced animals(rabbits, foxes, cane toads and domestic animals…), indigenous plants and animals, local icons….

[Aceeee82]

The problem is worse but relevant. I cant interact with plants out of seasons at all. Only uproot plant and collect microscopic sample.

[Sketch793]

That's normal.

Move the out-of-season plants to a sheltered location if you need to interact with them. A sheltered location is anywhere that's under a roof. 

[Bluebonnet_Fitz]

Moving them into sheltered location does NOT solve the main problems like weeding.

[Sketch793]

Moving out-of-season plants to a sheltered location might not work for you, but it certainly works for me. I just verified it in game.