Best Indoor Kitchen Garden Kits

Do you love the idea of growing your own vegetables and herbs but don't have a backyard where you could set up a square foot garden or another type of kitchen garden? Not to worry—there are tons of indoor kitchen garden kits that allow you to set up a mini-sized kitchen garden right in your kitchen or living room! Grab one of these cleverly-designed indoor kitchen garden kits so you can finally start growing your own food.

1. AeroGarden Extra/Ultra LED

Miracle Gro's AeroGarden vegetable and herb growing kits are one of the best-known indoor vegetable gardens designed for home use. Their best indoor kitchen garden kits, such as AeroGarden Ultra LED and AeroGarden Extra LED, can be extended to up to 24 inches, so they are perfect for growing bigger plants such as cherry tomatoes. All of Miracle Gro's AeroGardens use hydroponic technology, a NASA-tested technology that uses nutrient-rich water, rather than soil, to grow vegetables. To learn more about the LED-light equipped AergoGarden Extra or Ultra, see Indoor Garden Kits for Growing Tomatoes.

2. Miracle Gro's AeroGarden 7

This kit is one Miracle Gro's best indoor kitchen garden kits for those who are looking to grow small edible plants such as lettuce or herbs. This indoor herb garden with a light can accommodate up to seven small plants, and the height of the growing area can be extended to 12 inches. Read the full AeroGarden 7 review for details about this hydroponic herb growing kit.

3. SunLite's 3-Tier Indoor Garden

If you already have some experience growing vegetables indoors and want to take your indoor gardening to the next level, SunLite's 3-Tier Indoor Garden might be the right choice for you. This sizable stand comes with 3 shelves which provide a total of 18 square feet of growing space, and each tier has high-quality grow lights to ensure your plants get full-spectrum light. Check out the Review of SunLite Indoor Garden Stand to learn more about this multi-tier indoor garden.

5. Window Gardens' Microgreens Kit with Veg-Ledge

Thanks to some innovative brains out there, you can now have an indoor microgreen garden even if you don't have a windowsill or a plant grow light. Window Garden's microgreen growing kit comes with a smart suction cup tray, called the Veg-Ledge, which can be attached to a clean glass window. In addition to the Veg-Ledge, this kit contains a starter pack of microgreen seeds and a compressed coco coir disc that expands with water making the perfect potting soil for your microgreens. To learn more, read the in-depth article Microgreen Starter Kit with Section Cup Tray.

5. EcoLife's Eco-Cycle Kit with Grow Light

Got a standard 20-gallon aquarium at home? EcoLife's Eco-Cycle kit allows you to transform your aquarium into an aquaponic food production unit. The concept behind this smart indoor kitchen garden is ingeniously simple: you feed the fish, the fish feed the plants, and the plants feed you. In addition, the plants help clean the water in the aquarium so your fish will be happy, too. To make sure your herbs and vegetables get plenty of light, the Aquaponic Eco-Cycle Kit also includes a T5 HO indoor grow light fixture.

6. Back to the Roots' Self-Cleaning Water Garden (aka AquaFarm)

If you want to try aquaponic indoor gardening but don't have an aquarium, Back to the Roots' Water Garden might be a good choice for you. This ingenious table-top herb growing kit combines a compact 3-gallon fish tank with a stylish herb tray for growing herbs and other small plants such as wheatgrass. In this low-maintenance, mini-sized aquaponics ecosystem, the fish feed the plants and plants clean the water. While this small herb growing kit may not be the best indoor kitchen garden kit for serious indoor gardeners who want to get a lot of food out of their indoor garden, this aquaponic herb growing kit is definitely one of the coolest indoor garden kits out there, and a great way to teach kids how an eco system works.