An apparatus for growing vegetables, mushrooms, ornamental plants and the like, includes a containment framework associated with at least one technical compartment, forming internally at least one cultivation area and having at least one respective support and containment tray designed to accommodate the seeds of vegetables, mushrooms or plants to be cultivated, and elements for controlling the cultivation parameters. The control elementsinclude elements for controlling the climate of each cultivation area;irrigation elements; andlighting elements,there being moreover management elements adapted to act on the control elements in order to control the cultivation parameters as a function of the type of vegetable, mushroom or ornamental plant to be cultivated during the germination step and during the growth step.