The Finest In-House Gardening Kits

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Give your father an indoor garden set for Father’s Day.

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Did dad miss the start of the outdoor growing season? Give him the next best thing on Father’s Day: a garden kit for the home. It will bring him joy all year round, from getting dirty hands during the decorating process to germinating the seeds and ripening the plants. Green thumb or not, foodie fathers will love having freshly picked herbs and vegetables at every meal. Talk about a Father’s Day gift that you keep giving!

Here are the top nine home gardening kits to give Dad this Father’s Day.

AeroGarden Harvest Elite

Best gardening kits for Father's Day: AeroGarden Harvest Elite

Best gardening kits for Father’s Day: AeroGarden Harvest Elite

AeroGarden

No sun, earth or space? With the AeroGarden Harvest Elite garden kit, this is no problem. This smart garden system uses a dome of 20 watt LED lights to provide the full spectrum of sunlight they need without soil pollution for up to six different types of plants. It comes in a sleek stainless steel case that looks sharp in any kitchen and has a handy control panel that can remind dad when to add plant-based food and water. He will feel like a master gardener in no time. $ 179.95 from aerogarden.com

Back to the Roots Mushroom Grow Kit

Best Gardening Kits for Father's Day: Back to the Roots Mushroom Grow Kit

Best Gardening Kits for Father’s Day: Back to the Roots Mushroom Grow Kit

Back to the roots

If you are looking for an alternative gardening gift to the traditional herbs on the windowsill and the vegetable growing kits for Father’s Day, Back to the Roots has the popular organic mushroom growing kits. The colorful cardboard boxes are filled with substrate that, once scraped off, soaked overnight and sprayed with water every day, sprouts like magical organic mother-of-pearl oyster mushrooms in just 10 days. Back to the Roots makes the experience with the kit’s discovery booklet even more fun. It contains interesting facts about ideal conditions for growing mushrooms and recipe ideas for cooking with your harvest. Mushroom quiche, anyone? $ 24.99 from backtotheroots.com

Gardyn Home Starter

Best Gardening Kits for Father's Day: Gardyn Home Starter

Best Gardening Kits for Father’s Day: Gardyn Home Starter

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Take your father’s garden to the next level with Gardyn, an indoor hydroponic garden system that is practically a high-tech vertical farm for your kitchen or living room. In just 2 square meters, Gardyn can grow up to 30 plants including cherry tomatoes, peppers, strawberries, sage, coriander, basil, flowers, and almost any type of leafy green you want. Dad doesn’t have to worry about babysitting each plant individually – this is a plug-and-play system with two high-resolution cameras that analyze the development of the plants and tell the gardener the perfect time for harvest via the app with artificial intelligence Kelby. $ 799 from mygardyn.com

A real intelligent indoor garden

The Best Garden Kits for Father's Day: Veritable Smart Indoor Garden

The Best Garden Kits for Father’s Day: Veritable Smart Indoor Garden

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The Veritable Smart Indoor Garden is a very easy garden set for people who love fresh vegetables and herbs, but apparently cannot keep them alive on their own. The high-end LED technology of the planter automatically adjusts the brightness of the lamp according to the ambient light of the room to create the ideal growing conditions for edible plants and put an end to the disappointment of suddenly withered basil or tomato plants that never bear fruit. Self-watering for up to three weeks, the passive hydroponic garden kit contains everything dad needs to grow sweet basil, parsley, chives and cherry tomatoes in a month. $ 249 from store.moma.org

Chef’n Countertop Microgreen Grower

The best gardening kits for Father's Day: Chef'n Countertop Microgreen Grower

The best gardening kits for Father’s Day: Chef’n Countertop Microgreen Grower

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Fathers digging microgreens will love growing their own with this gardening kit from Chef’n. The gift contains the soil and seeds he needs for nutrient-rich leaves of a crop for salads, sandwiches and side dishes. Just place the minimalist white tray on a sunny windowsill and watch them come to life. $ 26 from food52.com

Smalldn SmallGarden

Best gardening kits for Father's Day: ēdn SmallGarden

Best gardening kits for Father’s Day: ēdn SmallGarden

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Beautiful and functional in equal parts, the ēdn SmallGarden is the perfect Father’s Day gift for a father who wants to grow plants in a small space. The natural walnut planter looks sharp on a kitchen counter, bar, or even in a home office, while the automatic lighting and water monitoring system ensures lush, green plants pop up with no problems – no natural light required. In addition, ēdn plants a tree for every order, making it the garden gift that you return. $ 199 from edntech.com

SprigBox EcoCube Chili

Best gardening kits for Father's Day: SprigBox EcoCube Chili

Best gardening kits for Father’s Day: SprigBox EcoCube Chili

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Looking for an approachable way to get dad out into the garden? Give him this chilli EcoCube from Sprigbox. Using the simple but effective home gardening kit, he can grow fiery red chillies that can reach 110,000 units on the Scoville scale. But apart from the heat, the peppers taste even better to the father when he knows that he has grown them himself. $ 12.49 from getsprigbox.com

Rise Gardens Indoor Garden

The best garden kits for Father's Day: Rise Gardens Indoor Garden

The best garden kits for Father’s Day: Rise Gardens Indoor Garden

Rise Gardens

Rise Gardens transforms lush green plants into a part of your home decor with its indoor garden set. It uses a smart hydroponic system to grow all kinds of lettuce, vegetables and herbs. The container resembles a chic bookshelf where your plants are displayed. This makes it the perfect Father’s Day gift for the father who has an eye for design. While Rise Gardens’ indoor garden may look complicated, it can be set up in just an hour and the accompanying app has all of the fertilization and watering reminders dad needs for a successful harvest. $ 549 from risegardens.com

Lettuce grow farm stand

Best Gardening Kits for Father's Day: Lettuce Grow Farmstand

Best Gardening Kits for Father’s Day: Lettuce Grow Farmstand

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Let’s face it: waiting for plants to grow can test the patience of even the most plaintive fathers. Give him something a little closer to instant gratification with the Lettuce Grow Farmstand. This garden kit doesn’t start with seeds but with 12 pre-germinated plants that give the grower a three-week head start and shorten harvest time. Selected from more than 200 GMO-free plants. The Lettuce Grow Farmstand is best suited for sunny outdoor areas. However, it can easily be converted into a home garden with some indoor lighting fixtures. $ 399.99 from bestbuy.com