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

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

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

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

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

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. 

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

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

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

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 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.