10 Best Indoor Herb Gardens to Freshen Up Your Living Space

If you're looking for an indoor herb garden that is both easy to use and pretty to look at, check out this AeroGarden Harvest Elite model. Finished with sleek stainless steel for a modern look, this indoor planter can grow six 12-inch tall plants at a time without the use of messy soil — just water.

This unit features a 20-watt LED grow light, a sleek digital display with illuminated push-button controls, and built-in settings to remind users when to add more plant food and water.

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This self-watering plant-in-a-jar kit uses a simple built-in hydroponic system that brings nutrients up to the plants' roots while regulating moisture from a lower reservoir, so you don't have to worry about over-watering, leaky pots, or spills.

These sturdy and chic tinted-glass Mason jars will add a warm touch to any living space, and they also make an especially thoughtful housewarming gift for green thumbs.

Choose from individual herbs like basil, cilantro, mint, or oregano, and get ready to garden!

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Simple, streamlined, and elegant, the Click & Grow Smart Herb Garden 3 is basically the Keurig of indoor herb gardens. Simply plug this unit in, fill the water chamber, and insert your plant cartridges of choice. (Note that the unit will arrive with three basil starter cartridges.)

This maintenance-free smart system comes with its own built-in, energy-efficient LED grow light, sensors, specialized soil, and tracking software that helps monitor the plant's growth and keeps it healthy and strong. We love how sleek, minimalist, and even futuristic this smart indoor herb garden looks in our kitchen.

A stainless steel box dresses up this hydroponic system so well, you wouldn't even know that it's not a regular planter! LED lights featured inside the watertight planter ensure that your plants will get the right amount of light.

The lights can be connected to the Modern Sprout App to customize the light schedule and intensity. Just add a drainage medium, soil, and plants to watch them thrive!

For those who are trying to create a full-sized herb and produce garden indoors, this is the ultimate option. The best part? It only takes up a couple of square feet in your home, making it ideal for apartment and other small-space dwellers.

Because the plants grow vertically, you can grow up to 30 plants at once in the planter. The Gardyn 30 only requires power and wifi with a 2.4 GHz frequency. There is no water line necessary as the growing system provides precision watering with specific nutrients.

This unit features plant seeds, plant food, LED light bars, a water tank, and even a light timer. It's like an indoor greenhouse kit for a regular and tiny home & kitchen.

If that's not fancy enough, the system also connects to an app, which monitors the plants' growth, water levels at the base, and the length of the plants so you know when they need to be trimmed. (This is all thanks to a couple of cameras that sit at the top of the unit.)

Ideal for both indoor and outdoor use, this simple plastic garden planter set with a tiered, stackable design can be used to grow flowers, herbs, and even strawberry plants. Thanks to its clever construction with built-in water reservoirs in each layer, users can water just the top tier, and the planter will evenly distribute the water throughout the lower levels.

If you're looking for a versatile herb planter for your kitchen windowsill, this option will provide a gorgeous home for fresh herbs, strawberries, succulents, and more year-round.

Note that this kit comes with just planters, so you'll need to add soil, water, and your favorite seedlings to start your stunning tiered garden.

This self-watering potted herb keeper will keep your basil or thyme fresh and hydrated, so you won't have to worry about busting out the watering can night after night.

Thanks to a clever hydro-pad that soaks up water from a reservoir and allows herbs to draw water as needed, this herb keeper requires minimal maintenance and up to 40% less watering than a standard herb garden.

Suitable for one single round or square seedling pot up to 3.5 inches in diameter, the only drawback of this model is its smaller size. Still, reviewers rave about this planter's ability to repurpose herb stems, roots, and ends that might otherwise get thrown away.

With its compact 4x4-inch size and slim footprint, Window Garden's aquaphoric indoor herb garden tub is the perfect fit for a kitchen windowsill. Using a simple passive hydroponic watering system, the fiber soil in the base of this tub absorbs the proper amount of root-zone water and oxygen to feed the herbs or plants inside.

Just add enough water per the built-in water-level indicator (you'll only need to water sparingly) to create the perfect growing environment for your indoor herb garden. This kit is ideal for culinary herbs like rosemary and thyme, smaller house plants, and succulents.

If you already have your herb garden started, but need a little extra light to keep them growing, this LED frame could be for you. It doesn't come with pots or plants, but the frame is a lifesaver in dark rooms or kitchens lacking light.

It's small enough to keep on your counter, measuring only 4.5 inches wide, but long enough to hold about three small plants. The lights simulate natural sunlight, and the planter has a timer that automatically turns the lights on for 16 hours, and then off for 8. Just like real life.

Why invest in a basic herb garden when you can get an awesome water garden/fish tank hybrid instead? Upgrade your fishbowl with this self-cleaning tank that grows organic microgreens like wheatgrass, alfalfa, or sprouts right on top.

This simple yet super cool tank works like a scaled-down interactive aquaponics ecosystem, where waste from the fish in the tank actually fertilizes the plants, as the plants simultaneously clean the water. It's science!

This makes for a fun housewarming gift, but also a great way for little ones to learn about gardening, growing food sustainably, and how different ecosystems work.