Re: Plants reverting to dirt pile after fertilizing
July 2021
@abirg13 What you're describing sounds like a different issue, and unfortunately just another thing that breaks gardening. The issue you seem to be having is one where after tending to your garden, you won't be able to tend to it again unless (for whatever reason) you have your sim travel somewhere and then go back. Since you can't tend to the plants they will obviously die, and in my case they seemed to still look healthy even though they weren't. Not only does it seem to happen almost all the time after the initial watering, but even after that you may still have to travel away after every time that you tend to your garden.
It has nothing to do with packs, mods, or custom content because I too have that problem and I only have the base game and can't use mods since I play on Xbox. Luckily it's been a while since I've seen the issue where plants revert to dirt, then again I gave up on gardening after seeing that it's still broken.