Grow a Garden – Best Pets Tier List & Trade Value (Updated)

The Summer Harvest Update just dropped in Grow a Garden, and yeah, it’s kind of a big deal. We’ve got new pets, wild new egg mechanics, and more meta shifts than a Discord argument over Disco Bee trades. A brand-new egg just entered the shop with suspiciously generous drop rates, and while not every pet is a meta-breaker, a few are already fueling billion-shekel builds. If you thought the Blood Moon update was chaotic, and the Anti Bee Egg era brought peak power creep (looking at you, Butterfly), Summer Harvest cranks things just a bit lower, but it still matters. This guide breaks down every single pet worth knowing about, including trade values, drop rates, and the full tier list, now expanded with all the Anti Bee Egg and Summer Harvest Egg pets.

Best Pets Tier List & Trade Value (Updated)

Pets in Grow a Garden are no joke, and with the Summer Harvest, we’ve got some serious game-changers in the mix. Normally, pets come from five egg types: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Legendary, and Bug. Most cost coins, but Bug Eggs (the heavy hitters) cost 50 million¢ or Robux. And now, with Summer Harvest pets available in the event shop, you’ve got even more power, if you know how to use them.

Each pet has a unique ability, some are passive, some on a timer, but not all pets are created equal. Some pets are straight-up money printers, while others are glorified garden ornaments.

For this guide, I’ve ranked pets based on:

• How useful they are in most garden setups
• How consistent their abilities are
• Whether their effect scales well over time
• Personal experience (yep, I’ve tested them most of them)

S+ Tier – Ultra Rare, Ultra OP

These pets change everything, the best of the best. Get one, build your strategy around it.

• Disco Bee: The rarest and most powerful pet in the entire game. 0.25% drop rate from the Anti-Bee Egg and limited. Its Disco Mutation multiplies a plant’s value by 125x. The only downside? It’s a little slow to apply.
• Raccoon: Rare and unobtainable (1% drop from the Night event). It lets you duplicate fruits from other gardens. Yes, really. Duplicate. Sell. Profit.
• Butterfly: 1% from the Anti-Bee Egg. It transforms crops into Rainbow Fruits, the best mutation in the game. It uses five mutations in exchange, but it’s worth it. Ask in the comments if you want us to explain why Rainbow is so powerful.
• Dragonfly: Every 10 minutes, it turns plants into literal gold. 1% drop from the Bug Egg, but good news: this one’s not limited. You can still get it!
• Hedgehogs: They’re gaining popularity thanks to a new Trillionaire Method (I might cover this topic).
  • These beasts gives a 2x size boost to spiky plants plus a 1.17x variant chance. Combine it with the Nectarine method glitch, and it’s one of the best profit pets in the entire game. S Tier. but only if you’re using the glitch.

S Tier – High-Value, High-Demand

S-tier pets are rare, powerful, and highly sought after, people have traded entire gardens for these.

• Queen Bee: 1% drop from Bee Egg. Rare, but its value is dropping as more players hatch them.
• Chicken Jockey: From the Blood Moon event. Zombifies plants and boosts their value. No way to get it anymore outside of trading.
• Fox: Super rare (1.78% drop from the Mythical Egg) with a sneaky ability to steal seeds from other gardens, but not event seeds like Candy Blossom or Sunflower.

A Tier – Genuinely Good Trades

Now we’re getting into pets that are actually worth something, usually around 1 billion shekels or more.

• Cooked Owl: Exclusive and popular, with a great ability to burn items for better value. Its price is unstable though, it could go up or down.
• Bear Bee: Its value is on the decline. While it can honey-glaze plants, Honey Sprinklers do the job better and faster.
• Moon Cat: Increasing in value thanks to the Moon Melon method. Helps grow super-sized plants.
• Moth: Feeds nearby pets every 15 minutes. Helps with passive upkeep, solid support.
• Firefly is the rising star of this tier, unobtainable and rising in value. Its ability to convert fruit to shop items makes it worth picking up.
• Moon and Blood Owls look divine, but they’re common and their abilities are average.

B Tier – Decent Starters

These pets have some value, especially for early-game trades. Overall: They’re mid, but not useless.

• Blood Kiwi: Speeds up hatching by 45s and boosts pet HP.
• Mole: Digs up gears like master sprinklers.
• Golden Lab: Seed digger. You’ll be surprised to get a beanstalk after scrolling on Tiktok for a bit, but RNG.
• Petal Bee: All situational buff. Work in specific builds, but not essential.
• Grey Mouse: Walk speed buff.

C Tier & Below – The Trash Zone

Let’s be real. These pets are trash-tier, and nobody wants them. I won’t wasting time explaining them one by one, but they’re only for early game, basically. Get rid of them as soon as you get better pets.

• Wasp: Applies Pollinated mutation every 30 mins, and speeds up another pet’s cooldown by ~60s every 10 mins.
• Tarantula Hawk: Like Wasp, but better cooldown reduction (~80s) and faster pollination.
• Frogs: Advance growth by 24 hours on croak.
• Cow: Passive growth boost. 1.12x.
• Snail: Drops seeds ~5% of the time on harvest. Works on event crops too.
• Monkey / Silverback Monkey: Has a small chance to return fruit after selling.
• Giant Ant: 10% duplicate chance on harvest.
• Turtle: Increases sprinkler lifespan. Still useful post-glitch.
• Bees: Doubles random fruit’s value.
• Red Giant Ant: 5% dupe chance on fruit + crops. Scales with level.
• Dog / Kiwi: Basic buffs. Easy to outgrow.

Best Summer Harvest Egg Pets Tier List

So, how do the new Summer Harvest Egg pets stack up? Honestly, nothing groundbreaking. Unlike the Anti Bee era, where pets like Disco Bee and Butterfly flipped the whole meta on its head, this batch plays it safe. No game-changers here, but a few still pull their weight.

• Red Macaw, Capybara, Ostrich, and Starfish are the real standouts, all sitting comfortably in A Tier thanks to strong utility for leveling, XP gains, and mutation support. They’re not flashy, but they get the job done.
• Seal, Mimic Octopus, and Toucan land in B Tier, decent, but situational. The rest? Pretty forgettable.
• Peacock and Seagull are C Tier at best, and Crab… well, let’s just say he’s still out here pinching coins while everyone else is printing billions.

Quick Tips to Maximize your Pets

Here’s how to get the most out of your pets:

• Pet levels matter – Higher level = shorter cooldowns. Keep them fed and growing!
• Stack those buffs – Multiple pets of the same type = stacked effects. (Yes, triple Blood Kiwis do work.)
• Feed your pets – 0% hunger = no growth. Just hold food and click them. Easy.
• Event Seeds Warning – No pets currently help dig up event seeds. You’ll still rely on Snail/Lab/Dog for normal ones.

Which Pet Combo Is the Best? (Summer Harvest Update Meta)

And there you have it, my full pet tier list for the best pets in Grow a Garden, ranked from best to worst based on real in-game performance. Pets can seriously make or break your garden. Choosing the right trio can mean the difference between slow farming and a gold-making machine.

The Anti Bee Egg Update shook up the rankings, hard. Here’s what I’m running right now for high-profit setups:

• Best Farming Trio (Anti Bee Meta): Disco Bee + Dragonfly + Butterfly
  • Disco Bee gives massive 125x multipliers
  • Dragonfly reliably turns fruits into gold every 5 mins
  • Butterfly adds the Rainbow mutation to supercharge value even more

Just remember: you only get three active pets. Make ‘em count. Do you want to learn more about the Blood Moon pets in detail? Check out my guide!