Best herb garden kit

A herb garden kit allows you to add fresh flavor to recipes. Grow your own indoor garden with our selection of the top choices.

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Herb garden kits make growing easy so you can add flavor to dishes made from scratch, and improve store-bought food. They’re generally made for indoor cultivation so even if you have a tiny yard, or no garden at all, a herb garden can be yours. Growing indoors means herbs are always to hand when you’re preparing meals, too. Take a look at our selection of the best on offer. 

Best overall

Spade to Fork indoor herb garden starter kit

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Spade to Fork indoor herb garden starter kit

Five herb collection

This kit not only promises organic seeds certified by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), but pots and soil discs that are USDA-certified as organic, too. It contains five types of herb seeds to grow, which you can label with the included markers. You’ll get a 10-page pamphlet with growing instructions as well.

Best value

Sower’s Source indoor herb garden starter kit

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Sower’s Source indoor herb garden starter kit

Beginner friendly

Get set up with all you need to start growing your own herbs with this low-priced kit. You’ll receive non-genetically modified organism (non-GMO) seeds for five different herbs. Biodegradable pots are also included along with soil pellets and plant markers.

Best for herbal tea drinkers

Home Grown herb seeds pack for tea

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Home Grown herb seeds pack for tea

Brew up

Herbs aren’t just useful for your meals. The six seed packets in this kit include chamomile and peppermint so you can make flavorful teas to drink. The non-GMO seeds could be planted in the garden or indoors, as you prefer. Plant markers will ensure you can identify what you put in where.

Best for kids

Dan&Darci Paint & Plant pizza herb growing kit

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Dan&Darci Paint & Plant pizza herb growing kit

Decorate the planter

Educational and fun, this kit lets kids grow basil, oregano, and arugula herbs for pizza and more from seed. They can paint the outside of the aluminum container as well with colors and brushes included. Everything that’s needed is here with a shovel and a watering bottle also part of the kit.

Best for medicinal plants

Mountain Valley Seed Medicinal & Herbal Tea indoor herb garden starter kit

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Mountain Valley Seed Medicinal & Herbal Tea indoor herb garden starter kit

18 seed packets

Grow the herbs traditionally associated with healing with this kit. The non-GMO seeds include angelica, borage, peppermint, lemon mint, burdock, anise, and cayenne. The seeds have been chosen for maximum flavor as well as their medicinal properties. You’ll get growing and drip trays, along with humidity domes, soil discs, and plant labels. 

Best for gifting

Garden Republic indoor herb garden starter kit

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Garden Republic indoor herb garden starter kit

Attractive growing box

Treat a friend or family member, or even yourself, to this fabulous kit. Its wooden box can become a planter, and the burlap grow bags for the seeds look great on display. The kit offers cilantro, English thyme, large leaf Italian parsley, and Genovese basil seeds that are 100 percent organic and non-GMO.

Our verdict

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It’s worth the effort of growing fresh ingredients for your kitchen, and herb garden kits can give you all you need to get started. The Spade to Fork indoor herb garden starter kit delivers seeds for five types of herb, along with soil discs and pots. Everything in the kit is certified organic, too.

You can get kids interested in growing and allow them to enjoy the results of their care on a favorite food with the Dan&Darci Paint & Plant pizza herb growing kit. They can have fun painting the aluminum planter as well as tending basil, oregano and arugula herbs.

Sarah Warwick
Freelance writer

Sarah is a freelance journalist and editor writing for websites, national newspapers, and magazines. She’s spent most of her journalistic career specialising in homes and gardens and loves investigating the benefits, costs and practicalities of home improvement. It's no big surprise that she likes to put what she writes about into practice, and is a serial house revamper.