The Ultimate Black Friday Garden Gift Guide: Our Top Picks
Give the gift of gardening for joy that extends beyond the season. To boost blooms and homegrown fruits and vegetables, we’ll make it easy! Save on top gifts for gardeners with Black Friday deals that make shopping early worthwhile.
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Gardeners never tire of garden-related gifts, whether they’re new to the lifestyle or a discerning expert. We love practical, functional, garden-ready gifts that enhance our productivity, or that let us experiment and learn as we grow.
In a season when saving is a gift in itself, it’s worthwhile to shop early this year for access to the best deals and stock. And with 25% off almost everything on the Epic Gardening shop (with free shipping over $50), there are a lot of great gifts to choose from this Black Friday.
Check holiday gifting off the list for the important gardeners in your life with this Black Friday garden guide. Don’t forget to treat yourself while you’re shopping, too.
Garden Planner Subscription
Epic Garden Planner
- Online planning and vegetable garden management
- Optimizes space, plant selection, and health
- Gardening tips, specific plant information, and personalized advice
The Epic Gardening Garden Planner is a tool to make designing and selecting plants easier. It factors in sun exposure, bed size and placement, and plant spacing requirements. It allows creativity while maximizing the efficient use of space.
The gift of a garden planner subscription lets gardeners draw up vegetable beds, select plants, and move them around to decide the layout. The tool takes growing zones into account to suggest selections, growing locations, and seasonal timing.
In addition to the design tools, there are planting calendars, varietal information, and a personalized journal to track gardening notes, successes, and timelines. There’s also access to live help from horticultural experts.
A garden planner subscription is a gift for beginners and experienced gardeners alike. The fun of designing a space, coupled with proper growing requirements, makes it a fulfilling exploration. From containers to trellises to raised beds, the planning tool takes an uncomplicated approach to the home vegetable garden in gardener-led configurations.
Seed Starting Kit
The Premium Seed Starting Kit
- Includes cell packs and trays to start sowing
- Long-lasting and durable
- Made in the USA from recycled, BPA-free, UV-treated materials
This seed-starting kit features the essential cell and bottom tray components for sowing in numbers. The set makes it easy to gift and kickstart seed starting in a convenient pack.
This bundle includes 12 six-cell trays and eight 4-cell trays with two universal bottom trays for easy watering without a mess. The reusable cell packs are built to last for years of seeding. Designed for root health, the walls of each cell have ribs to prevent root spiraling. A hole at the base lets us easily pop out the seedling, and provides drainage and aeration.
Raised Beds
Small Modular Metal Raised Garden Bed Kit – 15” Tall
- Built to last in a wide range of sizes
- Easy to install and configure
- Food-safe materials for healthy soils and crops
Next in this Black Friday garden guide are the big, exciting gardener gifts like the special ones we used to love as kids. Raised beds are easy to use and let us grow an array of vegetables, herbs, and ornamentals while controlling site placement, soil quality, and moisture needs. Because they are pricier gifts, Black Friday is a great time to stock up.
Raised beds also create manageable weed control. They’re accessible options for kids and adults, making harvesting and tending easier. They offer solutions to challenging growing situations in areas with poor soils, drainage issues, small spaces, or no soil at all. They give us a fun, functional growing opportunity, which we can always use!
Mushroom Growing Kit
‘MushBucket’ Blue Oyster Mushroom Bucket Grow Kit
- Grow your own mushrooms indoors or out
- Self-contained system with all materials to start
- Produces reliably for flavorful yields
For the mushroom lover, and for something to marvel at as it grows, a mushroom growing kit is the way to go. Beautiful blue oyster mushrooms (among others) provide dense, flavorful crops with rich, umami appeal.
Easy to grow for any level of mushroom enthusiast (beginners welcome), kits and fruiting blocks bring access to the nutritious, savory fungi year-round.
Grow Lights
Epic Seed Starting Grow Lights Standard
- Full-spectrum LEDs for seedlings
- Energy efficient and long-lasting (25,000 hours+)
- For indoor growing year-round
Indoor grow lights support seed starting to get a jump on seasonal plantings. They also boost houseplants and tropicals when interior light isn’t bright enough, whether seasonally or all year. These tabletop options keep a low profile, perfect for indoor growing without taking up much space.
Epic Seed Starting Grow Lights Small
- Bright full-spectrum LEDs support strong seedlings
- Adjustable height and brightness
- Built-in timer offers easy 8, 12, and 16-hour light cycles
The efficient grow light kit comes with a ready-to-use universal bottom tray, while the small grow light is self-contained and ready to match your system or potted specimens. The lights feature adjustable heights and intensities to adapt to vegetative growth stages. This is a Black Friday purchase that can always be put to good use.
Fabric Grow Bags
Epic Grow Bags – Lined
- BPA-free
- Liner retains moisture while maintaining air flow for roots
- UV-resistant
Fabric grow bags are a versatile way of growing and make gardening possible in spaces with poor drainage, weed issues, or challenging soils. The bags are portable and available in different sizes to house a variety of plants.
Fill a bag with a high-quality potting soil and direct sow seeds or install transplants. From small sizes for lettuce to large ones for young trees or shrubs, fabric bags make alternative and economical container options. Grow bags are also easy to store when not in use.
Lined fabric bags retain moisture and offer improved insulation to promote healthy roots. They don’t dry out as quickly as unlined or thin bags, lessening watering frequency.
Terracotta Watering Pot
Garden Oya™ Watering Pot
- Ancient watering technique with modern conveniences
- Reduces water consumption while supporting moisture needs
- Easy to install for less time watering
To ease watering, incorporating self-watering techniques helps support soil moisture while conserving time and resources. The Oya watering pot offers an olla technique with a porous terracotta clay reservoir to deliver water to the surrounding soil.
Buried in the garden bed, the reservoir filled with water becomes the water source. The water slowly leaches through the porous clay into the soil, drawing roots. The roots grow toward the pot and uptake just the amount of moisture they need.
The garden Olla Watering Kit operates with a similar premise and the capacity to attach irrigation hoses. The watering pots of both sets are available in three sizes to accommodate various watering needs and bed sizes. Store the pot indoors over the winter in cold climates to prevent the earthen clay from cracking.
Epic Homesteading Book
Epic Homesteading Book
Explore how to:
- Set up indoor and outdoor growing spaces
- Conserve and recycle water
- Grow and preserve food
Gift modern homesteading with expertise that works across any garden plot. From modern and high-tech components to conventional growing techniques, urban homesteader and Epic Gardening founder Kevin Espiritu shares the ins and outs of growing for self-sufficiency, health, and sustainability.
The Epic Homesteading book shares accessible information based on Kevin’s extensive trial-and-error in his own urban San Diego yard turned homestead. His insights make growing healthy food in water-wise and sustainable ways doable, no matter where you live—a great Black Friday buy.
Vertical Planter
GreenStalk 5-Tier Vertical Planter
- Made in the U.S. from food-grade, UV-resistant, BPA, BPS & PVC-free plastic
- Easy watering and planting for growing a diversity of plants
- 5-Year Warranty
Greenstalk planters are vertical structures with stacked planting pockets for easy growth and harvesting. The upright columns are space-saving and ideal for balconies, patios, decks, and other small gardens. No matter what kind of gardener you’re shopping for this Black Friday, they’ll find a way to use it.
The columnar pockets and water reservoir streamline planting, growing, and maintenance. The vertical planters house numerous vegetables, herbs, and blooms for our favorite seasonal selections. Vertical growth also adds interest and dimension to the layout, and is fun to experiment with.
