Herb garden kits and accessories to delight your green thumb.

The soggy, wet drizzle of spring isn’t exactly an open invitation for outdoor gardening. If you want to skip the rain boots, start an indoor garden that you can tend to from the comfort of your kitchen. And because there’s nothing better than savoring the fruits of your labor, sprout some herbs that will add life and leaves to your kitchen and flavor to your dinner. Here’s an assortment of delicious herb seeds and herb garden kits to suit your style.

Clockwise from top left:

1. Herb Matchstick Garden – Brooklyn5and10, $12.50 (for 5)
2. Herbs in a Bag – Bambeco, $8
3. Seed Pod Herb Grow – Flashwear, $3
4. Herb Garden – Generate, $49
5. Culinary Herb Garden – Bay Flora, $24
6. Herb Garden Kit – Not on the High Street, $12.50

The herb garden kit of your dreams would seem naked without these charming accessories – a dainty jar to contain your fresh herbs, bonsai shears to take your herbs from plant to culinary ingredients, and an antique bread mold to serve as your petite kitchen garden.

Clockwise from top left:

1. Printed Herb Jar – Terrain, $5
2. Bonsai Shears – McGuckin Hardware, $34.99
3. Boston Bread Mold – Terrain, $68

If you want to exercise your crafty genetics instead of your green thumb, channel your inner Martha Stewart and make this herb garden kit.

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It’s good to finally dig up green outdoor objects for the home that truly target our pressing desire for modern, hip and affordable.

These goodies are reasonable enough to toss into your shopping cart along with the diapers, Method and dog food and not feel guilty about indulging your inner landscape designer.

The delightful recycled green plastic composting container above and the other groovy goods are part of the MIO® for Target line, an innovative collection of environmentally responsible and budget-friendly outdoor living products.

The limited-edition collection is the vision of the Philadelphia-based founders of MIO, Jaime and Isaac Salm. The duo has earned a name in the green industry for focusing on infusing sustainability into practical and functional items like retro-shaped solar lawn lights, a minty fresh portable organic cotton hammock, recycled watering can, twine jute gardening tools and an herb garden made from post-consumer recycled paper. Seriously, won’t you be a better gardener if your tools are sharper?

Prices range from $8 (gardening tool) to $99 for the composter. The assortment is available at Target stores and a limited selection of items can be purchased  online at Target.com.

Solar Path Light is $29.99 for set of two. Hammock and bag is $59.99.

This green water can is $24.99.

Cheers to Target for keeping up the expansion of its green offerings to consumers.

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