How to be sure I unlock the Topiary PWPs?

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So, I know it's a little early to start thinking of Weeding Day, but it's on my mind anyway. I've been through Weeding Day twice in my main town. The first year I wanted the furniture, so I took off my Beautiful Town Ordinance and let weeds grow for about a week or so ahead of time. The second year I didn't really care because I had everything I needed, so I went about my business as usual. I left the Beautiful Town Ordinance on and plucked weeds as I encountered them. I was sort of expecting to get the Topiary PWPs from Leif because of this, but on Weeding Day a single weed spawned, so I got more furniture instead. This wasn't a big deal because as I said before, I didn't really care either way.

However, this year I need the Topiary PWPs to complete my second town. The bulk of my PWPs are going to be streetlamps and topiaries. I don't like to time travel so if I don't get them when Weeding Day comes around, I'll probably end up waiting another whole year.

I know the basics:

1. Make sure Beautiful Town Ordinance is turned on.
2. Scour the town the day before Weeding Day to make sure it's completely clear of weeds.

But what's the best way to make sure no weeds pop up on Weeding Day?

I've thought about a few options:

1. Covering my entire town with patterns, flowers, etc so there are no available spaces for weeds to spawn. This would be very time consuming as most of my town is not landscaped at the moment, but I'll do it if it's the only way.

2. Log in with a new save file to check for weeds before logging in with my mayor on Weeding Day. Like plot resetting, but checking for weeds instead.

3. Do minimal time traveling if necessary. If I log in on Weeding Day and don't get the Topiary PWPs, time travel forward one day, save and quit, then time travel back one day to re-do Weeding Day.

I'm not 100% that any of these methods will work, so I'd like to know your thoughts. Also, if you have any other suggestions, I'm open to hearing them.
 
If you have another character, that option would be best. You could also time travel if you are comfortable with it, and if there are any weeds, just quit without saving, go to the previous day to get rid of them and just hope they don't reappear the next day. If you have the beautiful town ordinance and get rid of any weeds the day before, it is highly unlikely any new ones will sprout up the very next day! Hope this helped (even though I basically just repeated what u said, lol) :D
 
The easiest way would be to time travel! Basically your option number 3. You could even log in as your mayor before 6am when the new day starts and then do one last check for weeds. Once the new day starts you shouldn’t have any weeds if you picked them all before.
 
Thank you both for the answers! Even if you're just repeating what I said, it's helpful for me to know that those options would work.

I'm not much of a time traveller so I didn't even know how that would work, but I'm grateful for the confirmation. I have time traveled within the same day to catch fish and bugs that only spawn at certain times, so I'd be willing to jump around a day or two as long as I don't get too far from the current date.
 
Thank you both for the answers! Even if you're just repeating what I said, it's helpful for me to know that those options would work.

I'm not much of a time traveller so I didn't even know how that would work, but I'm grateful for the confirmation. I have time traveled within the same day to catch fish and bugs that only spawn at certain times, so I'd be willing to jump around a day or two as long as I don't get too far from the current date.

Actually scratch that, I’m not so sure about what I said about the 6am thing being true, because Isabelle’s wake up animation might actually reset the day (I forget). But I do know for sure that time traveling backwards 1 day will keep the town in the same conditions as the day you just played. So this could help you if you need to keep the town exactly as it is on a day you just played. For example, if you water flowers on one day and time travel backwards, the game will count it as “one day” but the flowers will still have the sparkly watered sign and not breed any new hybrids. So if you get rid of your weeds that day as well, they won’t appear the day you time travel backwards. Also if you have the beautiful ordinance on like you said, you won’t get as many weeds so they might not even spawn the next day after you’ve prepared for weeding day! Time traveling rules can get a little tricky sometimes, even after all these years I’ve been doing it, haha :P Good luck getting the topiaries!! :>
 
Actually scratch that, I’m not so sure about what I said about the 6am thing being true, because Isabelle’s wake up animation might actually reset the day (I forget). But I do know for sure that time traveling backwards 1 day will keep the town in the same conditions as the day you just played. So this could help you if you need to keep the town exactly as it is on a day you just played. For example, if you water flowers on one day and time travel backwards, the game will count it as “one day” but the flowers will still have the sparkly watered sign and not breed any new hybrids. So if you get rid of your weeds that day as well, they won’t appear the day you time travel backwards. Also if you have the beautiful ordinance on like you said, you won’t get as many weeds so they might not even spawn the next day after you’ve prepared for weeding day! Time traveling rules can get a little tricky sometimes, even after all these years I’ve been doing it, haha :P Good luck getting the topiaries!! :>

Wow, time travelling is so complicated. LOL

But thank you for the extra explanation. I think I understand and that should help me out a lot. :)
 
Talk to Leif the day before and click on Please Weed. Leif will tell you if there are weeds or the town is clean.

On Weeding Day talk to Leif to find out if there are weeds. If there are weeds note the amount and close the game without saving. Start the game back up and pull the weeds before talking to Leif. Go to the plaza and the PWP should get unlocked.
 
Talk to Leif the day before and click on Please Weed. Leif will tell you if there are weeds or the town is clean.

On Weeding Day talk to Leif to find out if there are weeds. If there are weeds note the amount and close the game without saving. Start the game back up and pull the weeds before talking to Leif. Go to the plaza and the PWP should get unlocked.

Awesome! Thank you so much!
 
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