Grow a Garden Launches Christmas Harvest Event: Your Complete Guide to Rewards & Milestones

The holiday spirit has blanketing Grow a Garden’s lobby in snow, and with it comes the limited-time Christmas Harvest event—drawing inspiration from the popular Safari Harvest mechanic. Elves have arrived with Santa’s sleigh to collect special plants, and players stand to earn exclusive Christmas-themed cosmetics, pets, and items in return. Here’s everything you need to know to maximize your contribution and claim every reward.

Event Basics

Where to Find the Christmas Harvest Event?

The event hub is located right in the center of the lobby—easily accessible with an Event Lantern for quick travel. Head to the elf standing in front of Santa’s present-filled sleigh and press the ‘E’ key to start a dialogue, where you’ll learn more about the elf’s mission and how to participate.

How to Contribute to the Event

Participation boils down to two key actions: submitting mutated plants and gifting other players.

Submit Christmas Mutated Plants

Every 10 minutes, a server-wide Christmas weather event triggers—this is when your plants gain the Christmas mutation needed for the event. Bring these mutated plants to the Present NPC to submit them, and each one will add points to both your individual progress and the server’s community milestone.

Point values by plant rarity:

• Common: 1 Point
• Uncommon: 2 Points
• Rare: 3 Points
• Legendary: 4 Points
• Mythical: 5 Points
• Divine: 6 Points
• Prismatic: 7 Points
• Transcendent: 8 Points

Gift Other Players

When you submit plants, you may receive a Player Gift as an individual reward. Give these to other players in the lobby to boost the server’s “Gifts Given” count—this unlocks new GAG weather events and exclusive items in Santa’s Stash shop.

Pro Tips to Maximize Your Points

Want to hit milestones faster and get the best rewards? Follow these actionable tips:

• Team up: The event is collective—more server participation means better Santa’s Stash unlocks for everyone.
• Mix your plants: Avoid filling your plot with the same type of plant to increase your chances of getting diverse mutations.
• Choose your strategy: Either use a new plot for rare plants (higher point value per submission) or a small area for lots of lower-tier plants (more submissions overall).
• Use pet passives: Pets like the Raccoon (with stealing passives) can help you get unique fruits from other players’ plots.

All Rewards: Individual & Community

You’ll earn rewards both for your personal contributions and when the server hits collective milestones.

Individual Rewards (from Submitting Plants)

Each time you submit a mutated plant, you’ll get a random present with these drop rates:

• Normal Present: 40%
• Christmas Present: 25%
• Rare Present: 15%
• Santa’s Surprise Present: 15%
• Bad Present: 5%

Community Milestones (Server-Wide Points)

When the server reaches these point thresholds, everyone gets rewards—plus new items unlock in Santa’s Stash. Here’s the breakdown:

• 15K Points: 5x Christmas Presents (requires 50 individual gifts)
• 20K Points: Unlock Gift Rat pet in Santa’s Stash
• 50K Points: Unlock Gift Basket item in Santa’s Stash
• 85K Points: 5x Santa’s Surprise Present
• 100K Points: Unlock Christmas Crate item in Santa’s Stash
• 200K Points: Unlock Snow Day Weather Event
• 400K Points: Santa’s Stash cooldown reduced to 45 minutes
• 800K Points: Unlock Christmas Present item in Santa’s Stash
• 1.4M Points: 10x Christmas Present
• 2M Points: Unlock Yule Log item in Santa’s Stash
• 2.8M Points: Unlock Festive Night Weather Event
• 3.5M Points: Unlock Christmas Glow Track
• 4.3M Points: 7x Rare Presents
• 5M Points: Unlock Santa’s Surprise Present in Santa’s Stash
• 5.8M Points: Unlock Penguin pet in Santa’s Stash
• 6.4M Points: 10x Santa’s Surprise Present
• 7M Points: Unlock Milk and Cookies Weather Event
• 7.5M Points: Unlock North Pole weather controller (future update)
• 8.2M Points: Santa’s Stash cooldown reduced to 30 minutes
• 9M Points: Unlock Santa’s Stocking item in Santa’s Stash
• 9.9M Points: 1x Mega Lollipop
• 11M Points: Unlock Pet Shard HyperHunger item in Santa’s Stash

Santa’s Surprise Present: The Best Loot

Santa’s Surprise Present offers the game’s most exclusive Christmas rewards. Here’s what you can find inside:

• Cookie Stack: Christmas-themed seed
• Snow Bunny: Eats carrots every 1.45 minutes for 1.55x sheckles and grants XP to all bunnies
• Poinsettia: Christmas-themed seed
• French Hen: Increases size of nearby Christmas plants by 0.44x
• Antlerbloom: Christmas-themed seed
• Christmas Gorilla: Grabs cold-mutated fruits to reduce cooking time by 82.99 seconds
• Holly Berry: Christmas-themed seed
• Krampus: Consumes sheckles every 9.53 minutes to punish the nearest player

The Christmas Harvest event won’t last forever—so start planting, gifting, and teaming up with your server to unlock every reward before the holidays end!