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Garden Life: A Cozy Simulatoris a pretty simple game, which is why it works and helps you relax. It doesn’t get much more straightforward than just tending to a garden day after day. Plant a new flower somewhere, water it, watch it grow, cut it, and watch it grow again. This super simple formula is what makes the game so enjoyable, a respite from the hectic back and forth of real life.
Cutting flowers and plants is a pretty important element in this formula. Plant cuttings are useful in the general context of the game, and they can be used to craft items, too. Besides, the way the game tackles this simple action is a little bit unique.
How To Cut Plants
The first step to cutting plants isgetting your hands on some Pruning Shears. You will find these at Leslie’s, but you willonly get access to them after she visits your gardenfor the first time during the tutorial.
Leslie’s visit happensduring the second day, depending onif you completed all of Jasmine’s tasksduring day one.
Armed with your Pruning Shears, the next step is todetermine what exactly you want to cut. This is important, because to cut a plant you will need toaim at a specific spot on the plant’s surface.
you may cutjust below a flower to get a flower cutting, and then afterward,cut the stem at a lower spot to get stem cuttings, for example.
The best part is that you can trim plants to your heart’s content because this doesn’t kill the plants. They grow back quite quickly.
How To Use Plant Cuttings
Plant cuttings serve different purposes depending on what they are. Flower cuttings can bemade into bouquetson the crafting table, and they are also the kind of cuttingNPCs will usually ask for in their requests.
You can alsosell flower cuttingsonce you set up your stall in the Village Square.
On the other hand, stem cuttings can beused in the compost bin to make fertilizer. This way, you can have some fertilizer for your plants even if you’re short on weeds and leaves.
You can throw flower cuttings into the compost bin too, if you need it. But you generally don’t want to do that.
It works just fine, it’s just a little wasteful when you can use the flowers to get florins.
