10 Best Indoor Herb Garden Kits UK 2024 | AeroGrow, Veritable and More

AeroGarden mean big business in the indoor gardening world, and their Bounty Elite kit is possibly the best out there. The kit comes with nine packets of seeds, including Genovese basil, Thai basil, dill, parsley, mint and thyme - pretty much all the essentials for your culinary needs. 

With an LED light to mimic the sun, and a super snazzy digital control panel to notify you when your precious plants need a drink, the system is practically foolproof! There's even a vacation mode that slowly feeds your plants over time, so that you don't have to. What more could you want?

The Planter's Choice 9 herb window garden is perfect for growing herbs on your windowsill. At just under 15 quid, this basic kit is excellent value, while still providing everything you need to get started. 

The 15 piece kit includes pre-fertilised soil pods, nine seed packs of essential kitchen herbs, bamboo label sticks, and reusable pots and drip trays, which should last you a good while! The narrow drip tray also makes it ideal for sliding onto any sunny windowsill or ledge to bask in the sunlight.

The Veritable Indoor Garden Smart Edition is another great choice for the lazy gardener. With this nifty little unit, you can grow herbs at any time of the year with its automated light and irrigation system, which feeds your plants all the nutrients they could need to grow big and bushy. 

The pack includes curly parsley, thyme, sweet basil, and chives to grow in the system's four slots. Herbs get maximum nutrients due to the hydroponic system, allowing them to be harvested in just four weeks. All you have to do is just top up the water levels every now and again, when it notifies you to do so.

With most hydroponic systems coming with a hefty price tag, it's refreshing to find one that comes in under one hundred pounds. The Hydroponic Circulation System from iDOO is an excellent starter kit for any newbie herb grower, providing everything you need for your first few herbs. 

The unit comes complete with an LED light, so you can use it in even the darkest of homes, with an adjustable height that allows further room for your plants to grow. It's simple to set up, and with three settings, you can adjust the light levels and colours to suit each stage of the growing process perfectly. 

Another soil-based method, the Indoor Herb Garden Kit from Outside and In, is an affordable way to get some hands-on experience producing your own herbs. Inside are four cute tin buckets and drainage pots for your plants, rustic steaks for labels and easy to use soil pods for the seeds to grow in.

Just add water and watch the soil pods expand. Better yet, they're completely biodegradable, eco-friendly and 20% of the profits go to Pilgrim's Hospice. They even chuck in four seed packets, including oregano, thyme, rosemary and mint to get you going - and a spray bottle so that you don't over-water the soil!

The AeroGarden Harvest kit comes with Genovese basil, dill and curly parsley, which are the building blocks of many of our favourite dishes. As a soil-free system, there's practically no mess involved, and the automatic LED lights ensure that your little herbs get everything they need, with barely any input from you!

It is quite pricy, considering you can only grow four herbs at once. But, being a hydroponic system, the nutrients will be going straight to the roots, so you'll have full, luscious herbs in no time.

If you really want a stripped back kit, the Herb Garden Seed Growing Kit from Thompson & Morgan is the way to go! The pack includes five biodegradable pots and peat growing pods, a pair of garden snippers, and a set of markers to label your babies. 

At under twelve pounds it provides seeds for sweet basil, garlic chives, coriander, parsley and rocket, but you can always add your own if these aren't to your liking. As soil-based gardening can be a bit tricky, this kit comes with detailed instructions to help you through the process, so even a first-timer should achieve great results!

Another one from Smart Garden, their Click and Grow Smart Garden 9 kit, works precisely the same way as the Smart Garden 3. However, there is space to grow nine plants, allowing you to produce a much wider range of herbs. This does make it more expensive, but you get a lot more for your money. 

The kit includes seed pods for basil, green leaf lettuce, and cherry tomatoes, but you can easily add in your own alongside. As with the smaller version, the LED grow light and self-watering function almost guarantee growing success!

With over 2000 positive reviews, this kit has plenty of proof to back it up! A more simple solution than the techy hydroponic models, this product resembles a more traditional gardening method, albeit requiring a little more effort to grow your goods.

Including three rustic tin pots and a pallet style box, this kit doubles up as a nice decoration to add a farmhouse charm to your kitchen. The package also comes with three bags of soil, chalk to label your box, and seeds to grow parsley, chives and basil. If you just want a basic herb set, this really is a top choice.

The Smart Garden Indoor Gardening Kit is an excellent choice for beginners. It's neat and compact, so it won't feel intrusive within your space. Best of all, it's self-watering to really ease you in if you haven't yet grown your green fingers! 

According to the Smart Garden, this system can be used to grow up to 50 types of herb and veg. However, there's only space for growing three at a time, which for the price, makes it quite an expensive kit. That said, the LED growing light means it's suitable for any home, providing plants with the ideal amount of sun exposure needed to thrive.