You could, of course, simply get a pile of soil and stick a seed into it. But if you feel you need a little more guidance – or just a really adorable little kit to motivate you – here are some helpful sites where you can shop for gardening starter kits for total noobs. Yup, you’re just one plant pot away from becoming a self-sufficient urban farmer. 

EASI GARDEN KITS
Easi Garden offers a variety of starter kits including the My Vegetable Growing Kit, which is designed for children and yields kang kong, chye sim, baby bok choy or Chinese spinach; and the “My Pocket Garden” kit, which can be customised as a personalised gift. 
http://easigarden.com

NONG BY EDIBLE GARDEN CITY
Nong offers an “indoor microgreen self-watering kit” at S$18.90 for those just starting out. Microgreens are the young seedlings of edible vegetables and herbs. Choose between rocket, which matures fast; and “spicy salad mix”, which consists of red and green mustards. The kit contains a 
self-watering planter, which is a great option for busy or inexperienced beginners. 
http://nong.com.sg

THE PLANT STORY
At this website, you can buy super cute “Lunchbox Germination Kits” for S$15. They consist of biodegradable seed pots, which can be easily transplanted directly into soil, and your choice of seeds, including sunflower, eggplant and sweetcorn. It all comes in a Chinese takeout container – hence the name “lunchbox”. These plants are suited to our tropical climate and their germination success rate is marked at 70 per cent. 
http://www.theplantstory.com/product-category/urban-farm-supply/

ECO CITY HYDROPONICS
If you don’t like soil, consider hydroponics, a type of gardening in which plant roots sit in a shallow trough filled with a nutrient solution. Here, you can buy starter kits including a Hydroponics Hobby Kit System for S$35 and a tomato kit for S$70. 
http://www.ecocityhydroponics.com/hydroponics-tomato-hobby-kits.html

CLICK AND GROW
Here, the technology obsessed can order a Smart Herb Garden Starter Kit for USD$59.95 (S$81). It’s an electronic device — boosted by Nasa-inspired technology, no less — that you plug in and add water into. Each Smart Garden has room for three plants, is reusable and comes with three basil plants. It even comes with a companion app. 
http://www.clickandgrow.com

POCKET GREENS
If you don’t have room in your house for even one pot, well, you can still have your own plot of farmland — at Pocket Greens’ “vertical farm”. Adopt a rack of 20 self-watering growing trays for S$50 a month (for a minimum period of three months), purchase seeds and compost, plant your microgreens and come back one week later to harvest them. 40 per cent of your S$50 goes to a fund for needy students.
Visit Pocket Greens at Bukit Panjang Hill or 
http://www.pocketgreens.com.sg