If you live in an apartment and do not own a balcony or garden where you can grow some plants, or you just want to add some greenery to your home, then planting an herb garden is a solution for you.
Having your own herb garden is not only healthier for you and your family, it saves you money and time from going to grocery store. To help you plant your new herb garden in style, we’ve rounded up 12 awesome DIY indoor herb garden ideas that are not only aesthetically pleasing, but are useful and easy to maintain.
1. DIY Pallet Herb Garden
Great pallet project that anyone can build with common hand tools. Easy to maintain, and beautiful as well! (via The Brew)
2. Hanging Buckets
This indoor vertical garden is built using only four basic materials: a cabinet door, hooks, a saw tooth hanger, and some pretty tin buckets. (via Room 6 Design)
3. Mason Jar Herb Garden
Affix mason jars to the board with pipe clamps, and fill them with your favorite herbs and other plants to create a cute little indoor garden. (via Camille Styles)
4. Shoe Organizer Herb Garden
Turn an ordinary over-the-door hanging shoe rack into an herb garden. Each pocket will easily support one plant, enabling you to grow a dozen herbs, flowers or vegetable plants in very little space. (via Pretty Plain Janes)
5. Hanging Kitchen Herb Garden
Build this hanging herb garden in your kitchen window with wooden rods and curtain rings. (via The Bird and Her Song)
6. Vertical Garden
Using salvaged wood, threaded rods and bolts, and a handful of mason jars, you can construct a simple vertical garden like this one. (via Susie Frazier)
7. Wine Bottle Holder Herb Garden
Mount an Ikea wine holder horizontally and plant your herbs into pint glasses. (via Curbly)
8. Plastic Bottle Herb Garden
This project is not only adorable and functional, but it’s a great way to reuse old plastic bottles. (via Home Dzine)
9. Copper Herb Garden
What’s great about this garden is that the excess water from the top plants filters down to the lower plants, so there is less waste. (via HomeMade Mmodern)
10. Coffee Tin Hanging Herb Garden
Upside down growing is quite unusual but it’s a cool idea for a small indoor herb garden. (via Persephone Magazine)
11. Gutter Chalkboard Garden
Rain gutters make for great hanging herb gardens. They don’t take up a lot of space, and their shallow beds are perfect for herbs. (via Chiffons84)
12. Trellis Plant Wall
Show off your potted plants with this fun geometric idea! Create a trellis pattern with thin strips of wood and nails. The plants are secured to the wood strips with leather holders and nails, but you can use pipe clamps, too. (via Vintage Revivals)
