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Indoor Herb Garden Kit — a green thumb for people with no garden
Indoor Herb Garden Starter Kit
Reviewed by the WhyToBuyThis team · Updated September 2026 · How we choose
Perfect for
- Apartment dwellers
- Home cooks
- Under $50
- Beginner gardening
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Price: $49.95
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Why this gift works
Everything needed to grow basil, mint and cilantro on a windowsill: pots, growing medium and seeds in one box. It is the gift that gives someone the gardening experience without a garden, and fresh herbs are the one crop where growing your own genuinely beats buying it.
Good for an apartment dweller, a new home, or a keen cook who keeps buying supermarket basil and watching it die. Cheap, hands-on, and it produces something you actually eat.
Who is this gift for?
Great for
- A cook who keeps buying basil and watching it die
- A family project with kids on a sunny windowsill
- Someone who wants to try gardening before taking on a full garden
Think twice if
- They have no sunny window
- They want an instant plant, not a project that takes weeks
The catch
Growing from seed takes weeks and needs a genuinely bright windowsill - a dark kitchen will produce leggy, disappointing plants no matter how good the kit is.
Skip for someone with no sunny window, or who wants an instant plant rather than a project that takes a month.
Worth knowing before you buy
- Growing from seed takes a few weeks before the first usable harvest.
- It needs a really bright windowsill - in a dark kitchen, herbs grow tall, pale and weak.
Why we like it
- The gardening experience without a garden
- Fresh herbs are the one crop where growing your own beats buying
- Produces something they actually eat
Questions people ask
Typically pots, growing medium and seed packets, plus instructions; the listing gives the exact herbs and contents.
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