How to Get & Use the Hot Spring in Grow a Garden

In the latest Zen update of Grow a Garden, a new feature called the Hot Spring has been added. While it may look like a simple decoration, this item actually plays a functional role in enhancing your garden’s overall productivity — especially when paired with specific pets. Here’s a full breakdown on how to unlock it and how it works.

What Is the Hot Spring & How to Use It?

The Hot Spring is a cosmetic item in Grow a Garden, but it’s more than just something pretty to place. It’s directly tied to a unique pet that comes from the Zen Egg. When this specific pet is placed inside the Hot Spring, it activates a passive boost. The Hot Spring will increase all of your pets’ passive effects in the garden, giving you a small but useful buff to your overall farming strategy.

After purchasing and placing the Hot Spring, you’ll need the Nihonzaru pet that’s designed to work with it. When this pet is placed into the Hot Spring, it will begin enhancing all other pet passives in your garden. The increase is small but adds up over time, especially if you have multiple pets already boosting your plants, harvests, or growth speed.

How to Get the Hot Spring

You can obtain the Hot Spring from the Zen Shop, introduced as part of the Zen update. Simply make your way to the Zen area and look for the Zen Shop. Inside, you’ll find the Hot Spring available for purchase. Once you buy it, the Hot Spring will be added to your cosmetics menu. From there, you can place it anywhere in your garden.

The Hot Spring is a great long-term investment if you’re working on building a more optimized and passive-boosted garden. Just make sure to unlock the correct pet from the Zen Egg and keep your garden full of pets that benefit from passive boosts. It may be cosmetic on the surface, but it has real impact when used correctly.