From fresh fungi to llama cress plants, there's a cornucopia of awesome grow your own gear available to buy off the internet, says Catherine Whyte
Know a gardener who loves a tipple? Help them add some punch to their summer with this Cocktail Garden Kit. Contains six seed packets along with drinks recipes devised by an award-winning mixologist. Includes cucamelon (grape-sized ‘water melons’ that taste of cucumber); lime basil (tastes like basil but with citrus overtones) and Agastache (flavour and aroma of sweet liquorice) and more.
£14.99 from: plant-theatre.co.uk
Get fresh fungi at your fingertips with this Chestnut Mushroom Growing Kit. Choose a cool spot indoors away from direct sunlight, add some water and watch them grow. Includes kits to produce several batches and compost. The West Sussex-based company sells oyster and shiitake mushroom kits as well.
Priced from £8.35 from: merryhill-mushrooms.co.uk
Guaranteed to raise a smile, Sow Lush’s grow-your-own kits are funky and fun. This Edgy Veggie kit includes purple haze carrots, Turkish turban squash, colourful beetroots, chocolate sweet pepper, Swiss chard and Tigrella tomatoes. It’s also worth noting that Sow Lush use real compost and not coir.
£16.99 from: Amazon.co.uk
When life gives you lemons ... These dwarf citrus trees are a wonderful – and fragrant – addition to any room and are incredibly easy to look after: simply place them on a sunny windowsill indoors and water regularly for a home supply of delicious miniature fruit between September – October.
£24.95 for orange and lemon tree combo from: gardens4you.co.uk
Silly and fun, this quirky hollow llama figure grows a luscious – and renewable – coat of tasty cress for your next egg sandwich. Fair Trade and environmentally friendly, other designs available for purchase include cress sheep, cress turtles and cress pigs!
The perfect gift for any spice maestro, this kit includes everything you need to grow the hottest chilli on the planet – bhut jolokia, the ghost chilli. Simply leave the can in direct sunlight and water regularly and you'll have your very own ring of fire ready to harvest in a couple of months.
WARNING: Rated at 1 million scovilles by Guinness World Records, this chilli really is insanely hot. Please consume responsibly, or even better, not at all.
£7.99 from: amazon.co.uk
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