Organic kitchen gardens, built and maintained
Raised beds, soil built from scratch and a seasonal crop plan matched to Gujarat, so your kitchen runs on what you picked that morning. No chemical fertiliser or pesticide at any stage.
This is our newest service, built on our oldest skills
We have designed, built and maintained gardens across Gujarat for over ten years. Organic kitchen gardens are the newest thing we do.
We are telling you that on purpose, because the work underneath is not new at all. A kitchen garden is soil preparation, drainage, irrigation, plant health and scheduled maintenance, the same four things we have been doing on landscapes and terraces for a decade. The difference is what grows in it, and the fact that you eat it.
What that means for you: the structure, the soil and the irrigation will be done properly, because that is our trade. And because the service is new, our first clients get more of our attention than they would from a company running twenty of these a month.
Photography note: the kitchen garden projects on this page are being documented now. We would rather show you nothing than show you someone else’s garden.
What is included
- Site visit with a soil assessment and sunlight measurement
- Layout drawing with bed sizes and the exact crop list
- Raised beds built to size, or ground beds prepared and enriched
- Growing media blended on site: compost, cocopeat, soil, aeration material
- Drip irrigation with a timer
- First planting done by us, with seed and seedling supply
- Training for your family or staff before handover
- Scheduled maintenance and seasonal replanting plan
What you can grow, month by month
A kitchen garden fails when it is planted to a calendar written for a different climate. This is the one we actually work to.
| Months | Season | What we plant | What we do differently |
|---|---|---|---|
| June to July | Monsoon sowing | Bhindi, cluster bean (guar), cowpea (chawli), bottle gourd, ridge gourd, brinjal, chilli | Beds must drain fast. We raise bed height and add extra aeration material before monsoon. |
| August to September | Late monsoon | Cucumber, pumpkin, tomato transplants, spinach, amaranth (rajgira) | Fungal pressure is highest now. Wider spacing and morning watering only. |
| October to November | Rabi sowing, the best season | Methi, palak, coriander, radish, carrot, beetroot, peas, cabbage, cauliflower, tomato | This is when a Gujarat kitchen garden performs best. Most families start here. |
| December to January | Peak winter harvest | Continuous methi and palak cuttings, root crops maturing, garlic and onion | Almost no pest pressure. Cut and come again leafy crops every 15 to 20 days. |
| February to March | Transition | Last leafy harvest, early gourds and bhindi sown, summer prep | Mulch goes on now, before the heat. Beds are topped up with compost. |
| April to May | Summer survival | Bhindi, cluster bean, snake gourd, tinda, amaranth | 45°C means shade net over sensitive beds and irrigation moved to early morning. |
Exact varieties depend on your sunlight hours, bed depth and how much you want to harvest. The crop list comes with your layout drawing.
Six layers, in this order
Most kitchen gardens fail at the soil, not at the plants. This is what goes into every bed we build, bottom to top.
Bed frame
Timber, brick or concrete, 300 to 450mm deep. Deep enough for root crops, shallow enough that you can reach the middle without stepping in.
Drainage layer
Coarse material at the base so water never sits around the roots. On terraces this also protects the waterproofing.
Growing media
Blended on site: garden soil, compost, cocopeat and aeration material. Not bagged potting mix, which is expensive and runs out of life in one season.
Compost charge
A measured dose of well rotted compost worked in before planting. This is the food for the first three months.
Drip lines
Inline drip laid before planting, on a timer. Water goes to the root zone instead of evaporating off the surface.
Mulch
A layer over the media that holds moisture, keeps the soil cool in May and stops weeds. Topped up every season.
Four steps, and we are still here after the fourth
Free site visit
We measure the space, check sunlight hours, water access and existing soil. No charge, no obligation.
Layout and crop plan
Bed sizes, positions and the exact crop list for your first two seasons, with transparent costing.
Build and plant
Beds built, media blended, drip laid, first planting done. Usually two to five days.
Training and maintenance
We show your family or staff how to water, feed, harvest and resow, then keep visiting on a schedule.
No chemical shortcuts, at any stage
Organic is an easy word to put on a website. In practice it means we do not use synthetic fertiliser to force growth, and we do not spray chemical pesticide when something goes wrong.
Instead: compost and organic amendments for feeding, crop rotation and spacing to prevent disease, companion planting and neem based treatments for pests, and mulch to protect the soil biology that does most of the work.
It is slower to establish and it needs more attention in the first season. It is also the only version worth doing if the point is that your family eats what grows there.
What affects the cost
- Number and size of beds, and whether they are raised or in ground
- Bed material: timber, brick or concrete
- Volume of growing media needed, which follows bed depth
- Irrigation: manual, drip, or drip with automation
- Whether the site needs levelling or drainage work first
- Whether you want a maintenance plan after handover
We do not publish a flat rate. You get an itemised quote after the free site visit, with no hidden additions.
Organic kitchen gardens across six cities in Gujarat
We are based in Ahmedabad and work across Gujarat. Our home city gets same week site visits; other cities are scheduled within the fortnight.
Questions, answered
Less than most people think. Two raised beds of about 4 ft by 8 ft will keep a family of four in leafy greens and a rotating vegetable crop through most of the year. A balcony with four to six containers still produces methi, palak, coriander and chillies. We size the beds to your space at the site visit.
Six hours of direct sun is the target for fruiting vegetables like tomato, brinjal and gourds. Four hours is enough for leafy crops. Below four hours we would be honest and tell you a kitchen garden is not the right use of that space.
Yes. No synthetic fertiliser and no chemical pesticide at any stage. We feed with compost and organic amendments, prevent disease with spacing and rotation, and treat pests with neem based and biological options.
Leafy crops like methi, palak and coriander are ready in 25 to 40 days. Radish and other quick root crops in about 40 days. Tomato, brinjal and gourds take 60 to 90 days from transplant. Most families are cutting something within the first six weeks.
Enough to change what you cook, not enough to stop buying vegetables. Two well run beds typically give a family regular leafy greens and a steady supply of one or two seasonal vegetables. Anyone promising you full self sufficiency from a home garden is selling you something.
Fifteen to twenty minutes most days if you enjoy it, or nothing at all if you are on a maintenance plan. Drip irrigation on a timer handles the watering either way.
Yes, and this is common in Ahmedabad. A terrace kitchen garden needs slab load and waterproofing checked first. See our terrace garden service for how we handle that.
Yes. Scheduled visits covering soil health, pest checks, pruning, harvesting guidance and seasonal replanting. Same supervisor each visit, with a written record of what was done.
Drip on a timer keeps the beds alive. On a maintenance plan we visit while you are away and harvest so the plants keep producing. Tell us your travel pattern at the site visit and we plan the crop mix around it.
Yes. First planting is included, with seed and seedling supply. We choose varieties suited to your season, sunlight and bed depth rather than whatever is in stock.
Yes, that is part of why we work organically. There is nothing sprayed on those beds that you would not want a child touching or eating from.
It slows down, and that is normal. We move to heat tolerant crops like bhindi, cluster bean and amaranth, add shade net over sensitive beds, mulch heavily and shift irrigation to early morning. The beds keep producing, just less.
Both. If you already have beds we assess the soil, fix drainage and irrigation, rebuild the media if it has gone dead, and replan the crop rotation.
Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Vadodara, Anand, Rajkot and Surat. Ahmedabad projects usually get a site visit within the same week; other cities within the fortnight.
Fair question. The company is ten years old and the underlying work, soil, drainage, irrigation, plant health, maintenance, is what we have always done. The kitchen garden application is newer, which is exactly why our early clients get more of our attention. We would rather say that than pretend otherwise.
Tell us about the space and we will tell you what it can grow
We visit, measure the area, check sunlight hours and soil, and give you an honest recommendation, whether or not you hire us.
- Free across all six cities we serve
- Soil and sunlight assessed on the spot
- Itemised quote, no hidden additions
Also see: Terrace Garden · Landscaping