Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator - Should You Pull Weeds Out?

Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator lays it on pretty thick in the name. It is undoubtedly cozy, and it's all about your garden. While a lot of the game mechanics are really straightforward and happily explained by the couple of NPCs helping you to settle around town, there are still a few things you must learn to balance if you want to become the ideal community garden caretaker.

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A game where you plant and grow things is not complete without weeds. In Garden Life, however, they are more than just a nuisance, which is a really fun detail that adds to the overall environment of the simulation.

What Are Weeds?

Weeds are small plant clusters of a bone-ish beige color that grow sporadically around your garden. There is no formula to know when or where a weed will pop up, so it's your duty as the caretaker to just keep an eye out and inspect the garden often.

You are more likely to find a weed in a new place as you begin a new day than you are to see one pop out in the middle of an ongoing one.

Rainy days may also cause weeds to grow more abundantly the following day, but only sometimes.

Should You Pull Weeds Out?

Weeds can be a little unsightly, especially if they're growing all over the place. However, they do serve a purpose in the game, so pulling them out is not really a no-brainer.

When you let weeds grow around your plants, they will enjoy some degree of protection from becoming infested with bugs. This is great if you don't want to spray your poor flowers with chemicals,or if you just don't want to have to check for bugs every day.

Spraying the plants with the pest killer will not harm them in any way.

However, weeds also suck up some of the moisture from the soil, and letting too many of them grow close to your plants will steal their water, so they will become dry more often and droop.

In general, whether you pull weeds out or not boils down to a matter of preference.

They're not useless and can help benefit you if you have a lot of flowers to tend to during the day. But, there's a cost to their help to balance it out, and they do make your garden a little harder to decorate prettily if you just have them lying around everywhere.

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