Chances are that when you begin your farm in Grow A Garden, you’ll immediately see your neighbor’s plot and wonder how yours can be like theirs. Naturally, you’d think it’ll take a lot of work to get to that stage, and you’re half right. But there are a few tips and tricks we’ve picked up along the way to help you make the sparkly garden of your dreams.
Grow A Garden is one of the best Roblox games available to play on the platform, and one of the reasons why is that you can spend a few minutes tending to your plot before leaving it to do its own thing. However, unless someone is willing to donate to you one of their most expensive plants, getting started will take some grit. Here are some tips for the early game, things to focus on once you’ve made a bit of money, and all the more obscure mechanics that help you in the long run.
Best Plants to buy in the early stages
When you’re just starting your garden, growing and selling carrots is a good way to make a bit of pocket change, as they grow very quickly. However, you’ll want to prioritize any plant that doesn’t disappear upon harvesting it before too long. Generally, they’re more cost-effective, meaning that you’ll recoup your money and won’t need to buy and plant replacement seeds.
While single-harvest plants don’t normally give a good return upon sale, there are a couple of exceptions. Bamboo is the most plentiful plant with the best resale value. Buy as many seeds as you can afford in the shop whenever they replenish, then plant them in the corner of your garden and leave them there. Expose them to as many weather effects as you can so that they can get as many Grow A Garden mutations as possible, then sell them for a fortune. Mushrooms are also a valuable candidate for single-harvest plants that are potentially worth a ton.
Don’t forget about the guide achievements
The Guide Book has plenty of things you can do to gain a bunch of experience. While the rewards for reaching higher levels aren’t all that exciting, completing each page of the Guide Book’s achievement sections gives you helpful items to boost your garden, such as seed packets, pet shards, and many more.
To give you an idea of the work needed to complete the Common Achievements page, you only need to shovel 100 plants, harvest 200 carrots, sell 500 strawberries, and gift a carrot and 5 strawberries. Completing this set of quests will reward you with a cooking kit and 5 silver common seed packs.
Mid-late game tips for making money
Once you’ve made your first million Sheckles, it’s time to use tools such as the shovel to dig up plants that are no longer needed. Any common, uncommon, and rare plants are taking precious space that you can better use for when you find or buy higher rarity plants. If you’re unsure what the rarity of your plant is, hover your cursor or face the direction of the crop and look at the color of its name. If it’s grey, green, or blue, then you can probably dig it up.
Bulky single-harvest plants, such as watermelons, or replenishable ones like apples that don’t give a lot of profit, should be sold as soon as possible. Instead, you should grow high-yield trees such as coconuts, mangoes, dragon fruit, and romanesco. Bamboo is still a good investment at the mid-game, because they grow quickly and are worth a fair bit when affected by many mutations. Eventually, you’ll be able to afford the most expensive plants and dedicate all your garden space to growing them.
Mutate your rarest pets
This is also the time when you should be investing in Grow A Garden pets. Focus initially on trying to get any event-exclusive pets that grant mutations that will disappear once a new update appears. They’re not worth much now, but hatching as many of them as you can gives you potential trades in the future. Don’t bother with any common or uncommon eggs from the shop. There are very few that are worth the hassle of hatching, while rare and higher rarity eggs can be game-changing.
As for mutations, a pet can only have one at a time, so choose carefully which one you want. To mutate them, feed them to level 50 and deposit them for 500,000,000 sheckles at the facility next to the pet shop. You can also give them a Golden Acorn from level 40 to give them a random mutation from one of the following options.
- Shiny – provides an additional 15% boost to the pet’s XP per second.
- Inverted – provides an additional 30% boost to the pet’s XP per second.
- Windy – every 4 minutes and 47 seconds, there’s a 20.12% chance a nearby fruit gets the Windstruck mutation.
- Frozen – every 4 minutes and 47 seconds, there’s a 30% chance a nearby fruit gets the Frozen mutation.
- Golden – gives a big increase to the pet’s passive.
- Mega – pet is gigantic and has a 20% faster hunger rate. Gains an additional 10-40 XP per second.
- Tiny – pet is tiny and has a 20% slower hunger rate. Gains an additional 5-30 XP per second
- IronSkin – gives around a 35% to 45% chance to recover any stolen fruit.
- Rainbow – provides a bigger increase to the pet’s passive.
- Shocked – during a thunderstorm, every 45-60 seconds, it has between a 25% and 30% chance to attract lightning strikes to give nearby fruits the Shocked mutation.
- Radiant – every 20 to 30 minutes, it emits sunshine at a random nearby plant to advance its growth by 24 hours.
- Ascended – every 5 to 6 hours, there is around a 75% chance that this pet will give the Dawnbound mutation to a random fruit.
There are also a handful of events in the past and present that give out Pet Shards, which you can use to apply the following mutations:
- Aromatic – every 24 minutes and 42 seconds, a nearby fruit has a chance to get the Aromatic mutation. (Cooking event only)
- Fried – every 20 minutes, a nearby fruit has a chance to get the Fried mutation (Cooking event only)
- Tranquil – every 25 minutes, a nearby fruit has a chance to get the Tranquil mutation (Zen event only)
- Corrupted – every 25 minutes, a nearby fruit has a chance to get the Corrupted mutation (Zen event only)
- GiantBean – pet has a 15% faster hunger rate and gains an additional 0.12 XP per second for each Beanstalk planted in your garden. (Beanstalk event only)
- Glimmering – every 24 minutes and 45 seconds, a nearby fruit has a 20.14% chance of getting the Glimmering mutation (Fairies event only)
- Luminous – every 34 minutes and 15 seconds, a nearby fruit has a 20.04% chance to get the Luminous mutation (Fairies event only)
- Nutty – every 19 minutes and 40 seconds, the pet’s main ability has a 20% chance to activate twice. If this fails, your pet loses a level. (Chubby Chipmunk event only)
You can also get Pet Shards by participating in events or completing achievements. These are single-use items that permanently swap your pet’s mutation, and they include pet mutations otherwise not available elsewhere. Here are the ones currently available:
- Silver – obtain by completing Pet Achievements
- Gold – obtain by completing Pet Achievements
- Rainbow – obtain by completing Pet Achievements
Another top tip is to grab some additional tools from the gear shop or craft them at the bench. These can help you improve your pet’s abilities, water your plants more efficiently, and even change cleansing sprays into ones that give plants mutations instead. We highly recommend you save a Basic, Advanced, and Godly sprinkler to craft either a Lightning Rod or Tanning Mirror for 500,000 Sheckles. When you deploy them, they give nearby plants a higher chance to be affected by the Shocked or Sundried mutations during thunderstorms and heatwaves, respectively.
You can also craft unusual plants by combining seeds and plants like some kind of Frankenstein’s courgette. It’s frankly absurd as a concept, but if you want access to Lingonberries, Mandrakes, and all the other craftable plants, then you’ll need to invest some time, money, and resources into getting them for your garden.
Participate in Admin Abuse events
Before loading up Grow A Garden from the Roblox main page, you’ll want to pay attention to the section below that tells you when the next event will begin. This is because, in addition to briefly describing what the event entails, it also states that an “Admin Abuse” will occur starting an hour before the update is released.
Yes, the name is rather unfortunate, but what typically happens during an Admin Abuse is that one of the main creators of the game will appear via big messages on the game screen, similar to the ones that tell you when the shop restocks. They will announce things such as when rare items are being added to the relevant shops, and warn players about certain Admin-only Grow A Garden weather events.
Having lots of plants with a high resale value in your garden before the Admin Abuse begins is key to making millions of Sheckles per plant. Fill your garden with plants like Bamboo or regrowable plants such as romanesco at least a couple of hours before the new event switchover time to guarantee that you have plenty of valuable crops to sell once the update is complete.
Cook plants in the cooking kit
To get a cooking kit, you need to either complete the Common, Rare, or Mythical tier achievements or buy one in the cosmetic shop for 1,000,000 Sheckles. Place it in your garden and have a plant in your hand to then put it into the pot for cooking. You can only put in five plants to make food, so make sure they’re high-value or ones with mutations to increase the chances of getting a food with those same bonuses. The mutation gauge on the cooking kit will increase the more fruits with these multipliers are used in the recipe.
The advantage of this is that they are worth more friendship points when you feed them to shop owners. Regular food is worth 2 points, while mutated food is worth a lot more for every mutation. Given that there is a 24-hour cooldown before you can feed a shopkeeper again, having many mutations on one plant is vital for ensuring your friendship level increases with as few plants as possible.
Crafting specific Grow A Garden recipes, such as Corndogs, is simplified because only the type of plant is taken into account when cooking. For example, the corndog requires one plant to act as the stick, one as the meat, and one as the batter. You can use many plants as the stick part, but only a handful are acceptable meats. The batter, in this case, has to be either violet corn or corn.
You should also have a few cakes on hand, just in case there’s an NPC birthday, as giving them a slice will hand you one of the rarer items from their shop for free. Here are all the NPC birthdays:
- Eloise (Gear shop) – March 4
- Sam (Seed shop) – July 2
- Isaac (Cosmetic shop) – December 1
- Raphael (Egg shop) – October 30
- Orson (Ascension shop) – Unknown
Look out for merchants
Once every 30 minutes, a merchant will appear to the left of the Seed shop. They will generally sell rare items that are either unobtainable otherwise or very difficult to craft. When they appear, they probably won’t have a copy of every item in their inventory, and the stock they will have will be limited, but you may find something in their shop that you badly need for your garden.
Here are all the currently available merchants:
Gnome Merchant
- Common Gnome Crate – 55,000,000 Sheckles or 149 Robux
- Farmer’s Gnome Crate – 88,500,000 Sheckles or 179 Robux
- Classic Gnome Crate – 113,000,000 Sheckles or 199 Robux
- Iconic Gnome Crate – 155,000,000 Sheckles or 199 Robux
- Gnome (Pet) – 449 Robux
Honey Merchant
Trade in fruits with the Pollinated mutation to get 1 honey per kilogram it weighs.
- Bee Egg – 18 honey or 129 Robux
- Honey Sprinkler – 30 honey or 199 Robux
- Flower Seed Pack – 10 honey or 199 Robux
- Bee Crate -12 honey or 179 Robux
- Honey Crafters Crate – 15 honey or 179 Robux
Sky Merchant
- Night Staff – 12,000,000 Sheckles
- Star Caller – 15,000,000 Sheckles
- Cloudtouched Spray – 50,000,000 Sheckles
Sprinker Shop
- Tropical Mist Sprinkler – 50,000,000 Sheckles or 229 Robux
- Berry Blusher Sprinkler – 50,000,000 Sheckles or 229 Robux
- Spice Spritzer Sprinkler – 50,000,000 Sheckles or 229 Robux
- Sweet Soaker Sprinkler – 50,000,000 Sheckles or 229 Robux
- Flower Froster Sprinkler – 50,000,000 Sheckles or 229 Robux
- Stalk Sprouter Sprinkler – 50,000,000 Sheckles or 229 Robux
Summer Seed Merchant
- Cauliflower – 1,300 Sheckles or 135 Robux
- Rafflesia – 3,200 Sheckles or 215 Robux
- Green Apple – 3,500 Sheckles or 399 Robux
- Avocado – 5,000 Sheckles or 419 Robux
- Banana – 7,000 Sheckles or 459 Robux
- Pineapple – 7,500 Sheckles or 475 Robux
- Kiwi – 10,000 Sheckles or 529 Robux
- Bell Pepper – 55,000 Sheckles or 589 Robux
- Prickly Pear – 555,000 Sheckles or 599 Robux
- Loquat – 900,000 Sheckles or 629 Robux
- Feijoa – 2,750,000 Sheckles or 679 Robux
- Pitcher Plant – 7,500,000 Sheckles or 715 Robux
- Common Summer egg – 1,000,000 Sheckles or 29 Robux
- Rare Summer egg – 25,000,000 Sheckles or 99 Robux
- Paradise egg – 50,000,000 Sheckles or 139 Robux
Invest in expanding your garden size
If you’re finding that you don’t quite have enough space, you can spend sheckles to extend your garden size.
Right side: Adds a total of 280 square studs in a 5×14 configuration to the right side of your garden. Has no wait time and costs 250,000,000 Sheckles.
Left side: Adds a total of 280 square studs in a 5×14 configuration to the left side of your garden. Has no wait time and costs 250,000,000 Sheckles.
Back 1: Adds a total of 999 square studs by adding two 37×13.5 stud plots to the back of your garden. Has a waiting time of 24 hours and costs 500,000,000 Sheckles or 199 Robux during the waiting time.
Back 2: Adds a total of 555 square studs in two 37.x7.5 stud plots to the back of your garden. Has a waiting time of 3 days and costs 1,000,000,000 Sheckles or 399 Robux during the waiting time.
Spend a fortune to Ascend and gain Garden Coins
When you have hit your first trillion Sheckles, a new stall will appear in the corner to the right of the Selling Merchant. This is Orson, who handles Ascension, as well as selling a range of upgrades and fence designs. Every time you ascend, you’ll get 10 Garden Coins, which you can use either at the Ascension merchant to buy his stock or at tier 2 stock such as the Seed and Egg shops. You’ll need the specified fruit, sometimes with a mutation,
- Ascension level 1 – Strawberry + 1 Trillion Sheckles
- Ascension level 2 – Chilled Elder Strawberry + 3 Trillion Sheckles
- Ascension level 3 – Blueberry + 5 Trillion Sheckles
- Ascension level 4 – Chilled Apple + 7 Trillion Sheckles
- Ascension level 5 – Beanstalk + 9 Trillion Sheckles
- Ascension level 6 – Bamboo + 11 Trillion Sheckles
- Ascension level 7 – Windstruck Elder Strawberry + 13 Trillion Sheckles
Ascension merchant inventory
- Save Slot Upgrade: adds an additional save slot (1) – 100 Garden Coins
- Egg Capacity Upgrade: unlocks 1 additional slot for your farm (5) – 40 Garden Coins
- Pet Inventory Capacity Upgrade: unlocks 10 additional slots for your pet inventory (5) – 40 Garden Coins
- Cosmetic Inventory Capacity Upgrade: unlocks 10 additional slots for your cosmetic inventory (5) – 20 Garden Coins
- Plant Inventory Capacity Upgrade: unlock 10 additional slots for your plant inventory (5) – 40 Garden Coins
- Laser Fence (1) – 10 Garden Coins
- Greek Fence (1) – 10 Garden Coins
- Ascended Fence (1) – 10 Garden Coins
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