Gardening gated behind Housing is not fun.

[Dyvid]

The sad part is, I've run around my housing ward (and some others) every so often and am appalled at the lack of utilization... Chocobo stables with no chocobos in it, hay all over the ground (dirtiest setting), and you guessed it, unused garden patch(es). Been like this for a while for some of them.

Also, I'm referring to the homes/wards that have existed for months now. Not the newly bought ones.

Well the problem is gardening just isn't that useful unless you are a Culinarian.

I agree with the unused garden part, but unused stables is a little more understandable. Most people only use it to color their chocobo, and for training, once you train them you can withdraw them out right away. I like taking my chocobo along with me so he get XP when I kill stuff, he is level 10 now, i'm trying to get some onions to feed him, but they are too expensive to buy. Like 1 mil for each one.

That does sound annoying. Are FC not letting you use the gardening to make this stuff?

[FoxyAreku]

Well the problem is gardening just isn't that useful unless you are a Culinarian.

I can't think of any reason you'd need it for culnarian if you have botany. Maybe I'm missing something?
My FC mainly uses it for chocobo food and Jute (weaver). Also minions.

[SeraviEdalborez]

Well the problem is gardening just isn't that useful unless you are a Culinarian.

Chocobo dye fruit.
Krakka roots / misc chocobo feed
Thav Onions.
Broombrush
Jute
Glazenut
Minions

All things that gardening yields that are desirable crossbreeds (or straight in the case of Krakka). None of them are used by CUL. Gardening in and of itself is the worst and least-efficient way for a CUL to get their mats.

[Dyvid]

I stand corrected but it's still just stuff that is used for housing features and the third time I've asked now, why aren't you able to use the FC garden?

[SeraviEdalborez]

If you're planting crops you may as well also be crossbreeding. Which means taking up an entire bed for one person's project.

When you let just anybody plant, they might do inefficient things like 8 beds of Krakka roots with G1 La Noscea soil, or plant random lowbie vegetables that are extremely easy to gather and do not yield any crossbreeds of any value whatsoever.

This is extremely wasteful use of time-limited resources. This is generally why FCs (that I know of) do not let just anyone use the garden (if anyone even cares about it to begin with). Or worse (if you have it enabled for ranks that have no gardening knowledge), destroying crops that cost weeks or thousands of gil to get, to make room for their little side-project.

[ZodiacSoldier]

That does sound annoying. Are FC not letting you use the gardening to make this stuff?

Our FC actually has an open garden, so people can plant and take anything they want. But I prefer to use the garden in my house just so I have control over it.