Grow a Garden · Weather
Pet
Grow a Garden · Weather · Rarity: Event Weather
About Pet
Pets are a feature added to Grow a Garden on Update 1.04.0 (May 3, 2025). Pets possess unique abilities, having multiple of the same pets can stack their abilities. Players start with 3 equip slots, but can get an additional 5 slots from buying gamepasses from the Limited Time Shop and/or trading aged pets in. Players can hold a maximum of 60 pets in their inventory. As of the Christmas Harvest Update, players can increase it by buying game passes in the Limited Time Shop, trading pets in, Crafting a Pet Pouch, or buying space from the Garden Ascension Shop, with a maximum of 285 pets total. Players can craft a Pet Pouch, which adds +1 space to pet inventory. (maximum of 50 extra slots). It can be crafted with a Common Egg, a Corndog, a Small Treat, a Small Toy, and 50M Sheckles. Garden Ascension makes it possible to increase the pet inventory again through buying pet capacity upgrade worth 40 Garden Coins per stock, which add +10 space and can be bought 15 times before becoming out of stock (including the + upgrades, which cost the same). This means players can get 150 Inventory slots from the shop. (60 by default maximum + 25 by buying game passes or trading pets in + 50 from pet pouches + 150 from buying pet capacity upgrades from ascension shop = 285 total maximum of pet inventory) This limit can be bypassed by getting pets from chests/rewards not buying crates. Keep in mind that to hatch an egg, the player must put it in their garden. Pet Stats depend on their weight. As a pet grows older, its weight increases, making its abilities more efficient — such as reducing cooldowns and/or increasing passives. Mega Pets have better stats even at level 1, except for certain pets like the Triceratops, which have constant stats (regardless of base weight). In the Prehistoric Event, a pet named the Brontosaurus released, allowing players to gain increased weight upon egg hatching. Players can also increase pet age after hatching by using the Ostrich. Additionally
Quick Facts
- Effect
- Increased Pet XP gain Reduced Pet ability cooldown
- Rarity
- Event Weather
Pet — In-Depth Analysis
Classified as Event Weather, the Pet event is one of the most valuable buffs in Grow a Garden for anyone invested in their companions rather than just their crops. While it is active it does two things at once: it boosts Pet XP gain and reduces Pet ability cooldowns, meaning your equipped pets both level faster and fire their abilities more often during the window.
This matters because pet stats scale with age and weight, and faster cooldowns turn passive helpers into near-constant value engines. If you run pets whose abilities trigger crop mutations, duplicate harvests, or Sheckle bonuses, the shorter cooldown directly multiplies your farm income for as long as the event lasts. Stack multiples of the same pet and those overlapping abilities fire back to back.
To capitalize, equip your strongest ability pets the moment Pet weather begins and keep newer, low-level pets active too so they soak up the accelerated XP. Players grinding toward the high pet caps, up to 285 total inventory slots via pouches, gamepasses, and the Garden Ascension Shop, should treat every Pet event as prime leveling time, since the same grind simply finishes faster while the buff is live.
Pet Stats & Numbers
- Effect
- Increased Pet XP gain Reduced Pet ability cooldown
- Rarity
- Event Weather