Anyone can have an indoor garden! From herbs on your kitchen windowsill to a vertical garden in your living room, these DIY indoor garden ideas are fantastic for small spaces.
There are tons of options when it comes to DIY indoor garden ideas. You could grow a DIY indoor herb garden on your windowsill, a lemon tree in the corner of your living room, or even add a living wall somewhere inside your home.
The beauty of indoor gardening is that you can grow whatever you want any time of the year, no matter how cold it gets outside. Let’s dive into some DIY indoor garden ideas so you can see just how endless the possibilities are!
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1. Hanging Indoor Kitchen Garden
A sunny window in your kitchen is ideal for growing a hanging kitchen garden! This cheap DIY indoor garden idea is ideal for herbs and salad greens right at your fingertips when you’re cooking. Best of all, it won’t take up any counter space! Or, depending on your space, you can hang traditional hanging basket planters up high and use these retractable hanging basket hooks to make them easily accessible
2. Indoor Garden Closet
An indoor garden closet is the perfect small indoor garden for apartment dwellers or anyone with very limited space who wants to grow a lot of food indoors. Of course, you’ll have to sacrifice some clothing storage, but it will be well worth it! All you really need is a set of plant shelves that fit in your closet, a set of adjustable grow lights on a tripod, and a small fan for air circulation. Be sure to protect the floor under your shelves with some kind of tray or matt just in case water drips down.
3. Mini Herb Garden
If you’re looking for easy DIY indoor herb garden ideas, this one fits the bill nicely. Any empty windowsill that gets sun for a good portion of the day is ideal for a mini herb garden. Not only will the herbs look beautiful on your windowsill, but they’ll also smell lovely, too. If you’re a beginning gardener, a windowsill herb garden is a great place to start.
4. Floating Shelf Garden
With a DIY floating shelf garden, you can grow herbs and veggies from floor to ceiling on any spare wall in your home. With this small space indoor garden idea, you can rotate the plants in front of a sunny window to ensure that they’re getting enough light, or add grow lights, depending on your setup and what your plants need.
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5. An Indoor Garden Room
Do you have a spare bedroom in your home that rarely gets used? You could turn it into an indoor garden room by adding shelves and plant hangers throughout. Bonus points if your room has lots of windows with the right exposure and a ceiling fan. If not, you can still have fantastic results by adding some supplemental lighting and a fan.
6. A Self-Contained Indoor Garden in a Grow Tent
Vivosun grow tents are ideal for indoor gardening. Grow tents allow you to create a controlled growing environment just about anywhere in your home, from the corner of your living room to your garage, or even your basement. Add some shelving, lighting, and ventilation and you’ve got the perfect space to grow herbs, greens, veggies, small fruits, and microgreens. Vivosun grow tents can be used for seed starting in the early spring, too. If you’ve got little ones or fur babies in the house, a grow tent will protect your plants, which is a huge bonus!
7. A Vertical Indoor Garden
These vertical planters are amazing for indoor gardening! A DIY vertical indoor garden setup like this one allows you to grow a lot of food in a small space. It could be set up in front of a sunny window or you can add supplemental lighting as needed and put it anywhere you have space. Maximize your growing space even more by growing herbs and leafy greens in the vertical planters and add some hanging planters above them for dwarf tomatoes, bush cucumbers, and strawberries. The possibilities are endless with this system! You could have an entire indoor salad bar growing right inside your home without taking up much space!
8. A Tiered Mini Greenhouse
Using a tiered mini greenhouse for your indoor garden is a great way to control temperature and humidity without affecting the rest of your home. They’re super easy to set up, move around, and store away when not in use. You’ll want to stick to lighter, smaller plants like herbs and greens for this one… or anchor the shelf to the wall so the greenhouse doesn’t become tippy. Other than that, these mini-greenhouses are awesome for DIY indoor food gardens, and they’re super easy to use.
9. An Indoor Garden Wall
A DIY indoor garden wall is a great way to make use of vertical space! They look super cool, almost like living art, and provide lots of space for growing a variety of food. Garden wall planters like these are incredibly easy to care for because they’re self-watering. Of course, if you have some carpentry skills, you could build your own indoor garden wall from scratch and get creative with a cascade watering system for easy watering.
10. An Indoor Hydroponic Garden
An indoor hydroponic garden is a great option for those who want something that doesn’t require much in the way of maintenance or daily care. Once you set up a hydroponic space, it basically takes care of itself. A hydroponic garden kit like this one is a great way to utilize vertical space.
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Wrapping It Up: More Creative Indoor Garden Ideas
This is by no means an exhaustive list of DIY indoor garden ideas! The options for growing a cheap DIY indoor garden are virtually endless- as long as you’re willing to get creative.
It doesn’t even have to be inside your home! You could set up a small greenhouse on your deck, porch, or patio. Or you could create a climate-controlled growing space in a shed, outbuilding, shipping container, or an enclosed utility trailer. You could even rent a storage unit or small warehouse if you want to go big with your indoor garden.
There’s no end to the possibilities, as long as you can figure out how to provide the right environment for your plants.
