Grow a Garden: Christmas Harvest Event Guide

Christmas has officially taken over Grow a Garden, covering the whole map in snow and bringing in a brand-new seasonal event. This time, players can jump into the Christmas Harvest, a limited-time activity that works a lot like the Safari Harvest but with a festive twist. Instead of animals, Santa’s cheerful elves roam around collecting materials for him, and your job is to help them gather as much as possible. In return, you’ll unlock exclusive Christmas rewards that you won’t be able to get once the event ends. In this guide, we’ll break down how the Christmas Harvest works, how to contribute efficiently, and every reward you can earn during the event.

How to Contribute to the Christmas Harvest Event

The Christmas Harvest event sits right in the center of the Grow a Garden lobby, and you can jump there instantly by using the Event Lantern. Once you arrive, you’ll spot an elf standing beside a giant pile of wrapped gifts stacked on Santa’s sleigh. Walk up to him and press E to start chatting. He’ll explain why he’s collecting plants for Santa, and don’t worry — you’ll get something in return for helping.

Your goal is simple: bring Christmas-mutated plants to the Present NPC and turn them in. Every server gets a Christmas-themed weather event roughly every ten minutes, and that’s when your plants can mutate into the festive versions needed for the event.

Every plant you hand over pushes the event progress bar forward, and once it hits the milestone, you earn a random reward. Higher-rarity plants increase the progress faster, and here’s how many points each type gives:

Common: 1 point
Uncommon: 2 points
Rare: 3 points
Legendary: 4 points
Mythical: 5 points
Divine: 6 points
Prismatic: 7 points
Transcendent: 8 points

You can also earn a Player Gift, which lets you walk around the lobby and hand presents to other players. Sharing gifts raises the server’s community milestone, which later unlocks extra GAG weather events and new items in Santa’s Stash. It’s a nice way to help the entire server progress while stacking up your own rewards.

Tips to Contribute to the Christmas Harvest Event

Now that you know how the Christmas Harvest event works in Grow a Garden, getting big progress really comes down to how you play it. Here are some simple tips that make hitting those milestone rewards much easier and way faster:

Mix up your plants instead of filling your whole plot with the same type, since different rarities give better points. If you want to push milestones fast, set up a small zone dedicated to rare or higher-tier plants, or just plant a ton of low-tier ones in a compact spot so you can submit them quickly. Pets with stealing abilities—like the Raccoon—can also help you grab extra fruits from nearby plots, giving you more items to donate.

Remember, this event is a teamwork thing. The more players on the server who keep submitting Christmas-mutated plants and gifting presents, the quicker the community milestones go up. And when that meter climbs, everyone benefits with better items unlocked in Santa’s Stash. If you’re active during Christmas weather events and consistently dropping off mutated fruits, you’ll rack up points way faster than most players.

Christmas Harvest Event Community Rewards

While you’ll earn small gifts every time you hand in a Christmas-mutated plant, the real excitement comes from the global community milestones. Every player on the server contributes to the giant “Gifts Given” total displayed above the sleigh, and as that number climbs, brand-new items and limited-time features unlock for everyone. These rewards range from cosmetic presents to exclusive pets, new shop items, and even special weather events that only appear during Christmas.

Here’s a simple breakdown of what the community unlocks as each milestone is reached:
• 15K Points: 5x Christmas Presents (Requires at least 50 personal gifts submitted)
• 20K Points: Unlocks the Gift Rat pet in Santa’s Stash
• 50K Points: Unlocks the Gift Basket item in Santa’s Stash
• 85K Points: 5x Santa’s Surprise Present
• 100K Points: Unlocks the Christmas Crate in Santa’s Stash
• 200K Points: Unlocks the Snow Day weather event
• 400K Points: Santa’s Stash cooldown drops to 45 minutes
• 800K Points: Unlocks the Christmas Present item in Santa’s Stash
• 1.4M Points: 10x Christmas Presents
• 2M Points: Unlocks the Yule Log item
• 2.8M Points: Unlocks the Festive Night weather event
• 3.5M Points: Unlocks the Christmas Glow Track
• 4.3M Points: 7x Rare Presents
• 5M Points: Unlocks Santa’s Surprise Present in Santa’s Stash
• 5.8M Points: Unlocks the Penguin pet
• 6.4M Points: 10x Santa’s Surprise Present
• 7M Points: Unlocks the Milk and Cookies weather event
• 7.5M Points: Unlocks the North Pole Weather Controller (coming in a future update)
• 8.2M Points: Santa’s Stash cooldown drops again to 30 minutes
• 9M Points: Unlocks the Santa’s Stocking item
• 9.9M Points: 1x Mega Lollipop
• 11M Points: Unlocks Pet Shard HyperHunger in Santa’s Stash

The community rewards are what make this event so fun—everyone works together, every server contributes, and the more the entire playerbase participates, the faster holiday-exclusive items unlock for everyone.

Christmas Harvest Event – Individual Rewards

Submitting your Christmas-mutated plants to the Present NPC doesn’t just help push the community progress—it also gives you your own personal rewards every time you contribute. Each plant you hand in has a chance to drop a present, and depending on the rarity of what you turn in, you’ll receive one of the following reward types:
• Normal Present – 40% chance
• Christmas Present – 25% chance
• Rare Present – 15% chance
• Santa’s Surprise Present – 15% chance
• Bad Present – 5% chance

The system is pretty straightforward: the more plants you submit, the more presents you can stack up. Most of the time you’ll get Normal or Christmas Presents, but that 15% chance for a Santa’s Surprise Present is always worth chasing, since it contains some of the best seasonal items in the entire update.

List of All Rewards in Santa’s Surprise Present

Santa’s Surprise Present is the jackpot of the entire event. It’s the best individual reward you can pull, and it’s packed with exclusive seasonal seeds and pets that help your garden grow faster or give unique bonuses. Here’s everything that can drop from a Santa’s Surprise Present:

Cookie Stack – Common
A festive Christmas-themed seed that adds a simple but fun seasonal touch to your garden.

Snow Bunny – Common
Every 1.45 minutes, it eats a carrot for 1.55× sheckles value and gives all bunnies in your garden 1035.55–2034.55 XP.

Poinsettia – Uncommon
Another Christmas seed—pretty, festive, and a nice upgrade to your holiday collection.

French Hen – Uncommon
Boosts the size multiplier of Christmas-type plants in its radius by 0.44×, making your seasonal crops grow noticeably larger.

Antlerbloom – Legendary
A beautiful legendary Christmas seed and one of the most desirable decorations for themed builds.

Christmas Gorilla – Legendary
Every 4.51 seconds, this pet grabs fruits with cold-type mutations and cuts a random cooking timer by 82.99 seconds—amazing for production speed.

Holy Berry – Mythical
A rare Christmas seed that comes with strong stat bonuses and is perfect for late-game farming plots.

Krampus – Divine
A powerful pet that, every 9.53 minutes, consumes a percentage of your sheckles to punish the nearest player. Mischievous but extremely fun.

How Does Santa Stash Work in Grow a Garden

Santa’s Stash is the special Christmas shop you’ll find in the main lobby throughout the entire holiday event. It works a lot like the Safari Harvest Shop, but with a festive twist. The items inside refresh on a timer, and that cooldown gets shorter as the whole community contributes more Christmas-mutated plants during the event.

At the start of the update, the shop refreshes every 60 minutes. But as players push the global milestone forward, the cooldown drops:
• Base cooldown: 60 minutes
• 4M total gifts: cooldown reduced to 45 minutes
• 8.2M total gifts: cooldown reduced to 30 minutes

Even though the timer runs automatically, you’re not stuck waiting. If you want a fresh set of items right away, you can press the Restock button and spend Robux to instantly refresh the shop. This makes Santa’s Stash a great place to grab limited Christmas seeds, pets, and event items whenever something you need pops up.

Best Items to Get from Santa Stash in Grow a Garden

Once you know how Santa’s Stash works, the real question is which items are actually worth spending your money on. After testing everything in this update, a few choices clearly stand out as the best early pickups.

Santa’s Surprise Present should be your first priority. It has the highest value of any item in the shop because it can drop any of the new Christmas pets and seeds, including the Divine-tier Krampus. If you’re chasing the rarest rewards, this is the box to grab.

Penguin is another must-buy. This pet gives your plants a chance to roll the Arctic mutation, which can dramatically boost your progress during the event. It’s simple, reliable, and one of the strongest support pets right now.

Finally, the Yule Log is worth picking up since it boosts your pet passives. If you’re trying to optimize your garden for both XP and profits during the Christmas update, this item makes a noticeable difference.

Conclusion

The Christmas Harvest event in Grow a Garden is one of the most rewarding limited-time updates the game has had, and it’s packed with ways to earn gifts, unlock new items, and help the whole server progress together. Whether you’re farming mutated Christmas plants, gifting presents to other players, or grinding toward community milestones, every bit of participation pushes the event forward. With rare pets, special seeds, and Santa’s Stash offering exclusive items, this update gives you plenty to work toward before the event ends. Make sure to jump in, contribute whenever you can, and take advantage of all the festive rewards while they’re still available.