Tis the Season of Garden Gifts

Another holiday season tis upon us. We're making it easy to spread the yuletide cheer this year with gifts for all budgets for the gardeners in your life. Whether your gift recipient is a beginner gardener or a plant master, we've got garden goodies they're sure to love.

(Or maybe you're buying a little something for yourself. We won't judge. After all, gardening counts as self-care, right?)

Garden Planning Supplies Make Great Garden Gifts

If the gardener in your life is still in the planning mode of their kitchen garden journey, grab a beautiful little basket like this one (which they can use for their very first garden harvest) and fill it with garden planning supplies. We recommend the following:

• A compass - To determine which direction the sun will shine on their plants
• A garden Journal - To dream, sketch, and make planting plans for all seasons (I also love these floral notebooks from Rifle Paper Co.)
• A measuring tape - To figure out how much space they have for raised beds
• Wooden Stakes - To help mark the location of a future garden
• A Garden Can Be Anywhere: Creating Bountiful and Beautiful Edible Gardens by Lauri Kranz - To learn her essential methods for planning a space where you can grow abundant food

And, of course, to help them design a kitchen garden that's as beautiful as it is functional...

Kitchen Garden Revival by Nicole Burke

Kitchen Garden Revival will bring the gardener in your life step by step to create their own beautiful raised bed kitchen garden and learn exactly how to plan, plant, tend, and harvest from it more than they thought possible. 

Get it on Amazon or Barnes and Noble, or grab a signed copy in the Gardenary Shop.

Give Your Garden Lover a Gardening Community

Gift them a spot in our gardening program Kitchen Garden Academy to help them learn how to set up their garden the way a professional would. They'll be able to watch our training videos at their own pace and receive coaching calls to help them along the way. In addition to this professional support, they'll also find a great resource inside our Gardenary community of gardeners. (If you pay in full, they'll also receive a copy of Kitchen Garden Revival.)

Garden Planting Tools Make Great Garden Gifts

If the gardener in your life has their kitchen garden space all set up, they probably already have the basic gardening tools. Here are my recommendations for things that make my life easier or that make stepping out to tend my garden feel a little extra special. Grab a large harvest trug like this one and fill it with goodies.

• A hori hori knife - To make small holes and remove plants (one of my favorite garden tools)
• A large dibber - To make precise holes for seed sowing (another of my favorite garden tools; this one is great because it has measurements on the side so they know exactly how deep they're sowing a seed or bulb)
• Bamboo Gardener Gloves - To give their hands maximum protection
• Beautiful copper plant tags - To remind them what they planted and where
• A twine and scissor set - To tie up vining plants
• A seed dibber and tamper planting tool - To make sowing seeds easier (I get asked about my tools like this one a lot)

More Garden Planting Gift Ideas

• A planting ruler with holes for seeds - To take the guesswork out of planting seeds (I also get asked about this tool a lot)
• A 24-hole digger and seed spacer - To quickly poke holes in their seed starting trays
• A seed dispenser - To help sow small seeds

Garden Harvest Tools Make Great Garden Gifts

A beautiful harvest basket is essential for any kitchen gardener to celebrate their gardening wins. I get asked about my basket all the time, and while it's no longer available, I gathered harvest baskets and trugs that would make a great garden gift basket and serve the gardener for seasons to come.

Here are some other ideas to help the gardener in your life harvest or enjoy their garden bounty:

• A harvest dehydrator - This one comes with ten rows, plus a recipe book. For a smaller budget, try this express dehydrator.
• A herb drying rack - I love this hanger and have gifted it to many of our clients in past years.
• Herb scissors - Serious time saver.
• Harvest snips (or try these scissors with a built-in nut cracker and bottle opener)
• Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables by Joshua McFadden - I get a lot of recipe inspiration from this book.

• A salad spinner - A must for keeping salad greens nice and crisp.
• Weck Jars - Even if your gardener isn't much of a canner or preserver, these stylish and functional jars give will keep their garden harvests fresh for as long as possible.
• Herb Salt Keeper - I love this olivewood salt keeper from Williams Sonoma.
• An apron with pockets - This will help them keep herbs close by while they're cooking.
• Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat - This book helped shape the way I cook most of my garden produce—big fan!

Garden Watering Tools Make Great Garden Gifts

Watering Can

If you're looking for a splurge for a gardener who really appreciates the finer things, check out the extra-large watering can in copper from Williams Sonoma. (Here's a budget-friendly alternative from Gardener Supply Co.) I also love the design of the Haws Watering Can from Shop Terrain (still a splurge but not quite as much).

I have more budget-friendly watering can options that are perfect for small planters and indoor plants here.

Help them know when to water with this beautiful rain gauge.

Clay Olla

Ollas are a great option for gardeners who don't want to water by hand constantly but don't have an irrigation system. All they have to do is burry the olla in the soil, plant around it, and keep the vessel filled with water.

The Best Gardener Gifts for the Person Closest to You

Treat the special gardener in your life to a new raised bed or trellis to add to their kitchen garden space.

Raised Garden Bed

I have eight of these corten steel garden beds in my own garden, and I just added two of these corten steel containers.

DIY Raised Garden Beds

If you've got some basic carpentry skills and tools, you can follow these steps to make a wooden raised bed for a little over $100. Wrap a bow around it like they always do in holiday car commercials, and it's sure to delight!

DIY gift givers might also enjoy putting together this rolling steel planter and filling it with their loved one's favorite plants.

Garden Trellises

No garden is complete without some beautiful and sturdy metal trellises to support climbing plants and maximize growing space. Find all of our favorite panel trellises, obelisk trellises, and arch trellises for the vegetable garden, or shop our selection of trellises available in the Gardenary shop.

The Best Garden Gift for Those Who Want to Reduce and Reuse

This kitchen compost pail is something beautiful and yet super useful that they could have on their countertop. Pair the bin with this guide to making compost to ensure your giftee can make their own nutrient-dense compost for their garden in no time.

Our Favorite DIY Garden Gift Idea

Make the salad lover in your life their very own salad garden in a steel container like this one or this one. Follow this step-by-step guide to create a lettuce container garden. You can also do the same thing to create an indoor herb garden or container garden for their patio.

The Best Gardening Gift for Mom

Save seeds from your favorite flowers and veggies and store them in this decorative seed container as a way to share the magic of plants from your garden to theirs.

The Best Garden Gift for Budding Gardeners

These gardening books for kids make gardening fun for all ages.

The Best Beginner Gardener Gift Is Learning How to Garden

Helping someone improve their gardening skills is the gift that keeps on giving and growing! Gift a Gardenary 365 membership to your favorite gardener so they can access our complete online gardening course library, including classes on growing microgreens, herbs, roots, cut flowers, and more!

We Hope You Enjoyed These Gardener Gift Ideas

Make sure you order everything by December 15th to get it in time for the holidays. Thanks for helping me bring back the garden this holiday season!

Some of the links in this article are Amazon affiliate links, which means I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you if you click on the link and purchase the item. The links to stores outside of Amazon are not affiliated—they're just products I really like. All opinions remain my own.