Holiday Gift Guide: Growums Review

Are you looking for a gift that is as educational as it is fun? Then you might be interested to learn about Growums, a selection of indoor gardening kits for children that allow kids to quickly and easily grow their own veggie garden – all you need is a pie dish!

Each Growums kit is a small tub that includes everything you need to get started: Coco pellets, seeds, and plant tags. The process of starting and caring for your Growums garden is as easy as can be, and children can register their garden on Growums.com to track their progress and learn more about the gardening process. Each garden kit is themed – you can grow everything from a Pizza Garden which contains tomato, basil, oregano, and bell pepper seeds, to a Taco Garden, which includes jalapeno pepper, iceberg lettuce, tomato, and cilantro seeds. Growums’ mascots are cute anthropomorphic vegetables, which feature in the how-to videos on the Growums website to help get kids excited about gardening.

I received a complimentary Growums Herb Garden to try out, and I was really excited about getting started. I really like container gardening, as I’ve written about on my other blog, and I’ve been wanting to get a cilantro plant since I use it so much in cooking. This kit not only contains cilantro, but also oregano, basil, and parsley seeds – a great selection of commonly-used herbs.

Getting started it extremely easy. All you need to do is place the coco pellets in a shallow pie dish or bowl – we used a plastic storage container:

Next, fill the plastic Growums tub with warm water and pour into the dish. The pellets will soak up the water and expand.

Now, add three seeds to each pellet, push them down into the pellet, and add your plant tag. That’s it! Your Growums garden is now ready to be placed on a sunny windowsill.

The kit comes with extra seeds, so if the plants don’t pop up after 10 days, you can re-plant. I love this kit because it’s so simple and fast – in addition to being a good gift for children, I think this would also be a fun stocking stuffer for any adult who has an interest in gardening or cooking. Many people want to get started growing their own food, but don’t have much time or space – this would be great for people living in apartments, for example.

Growums kits are available in stores and online for $9.99 – click here to locate a brick-and-mortar location near you or purchase online.