Posts Tagged ‘customized gardens’

If the recent spurt in onion prices brought tears to your eyes then join some well heeled Mumbaikars in their quest for their very own edible gardens. 

 Patch a plan with Sunita Mohan, a former copywriter who turned to gardening with passion and is the lady behind the Urban Gardener.  Sunita will help you get a customized garden in Mumbai on your terrace, balcony, kitchen or window sill.  She will also throw in tips on maintenance and sourcing materials so you won’t be alone in your bid to acquire your own urban green thumbs.

Sunita’s venture also sells seedlings and hard-to-find plants – passion fruit, red ginger, and mangosteen – as well as seasonal produce. Her basket of organic produce holds broccoli, bok choy, dill, sage, thyme and more.

Sunita is among the niche group of urban gardening enthusiasts who are holding workshops to educate others about the joy of urban farming to reduce the carbon footprint of food transportation and provide insulation from inflation.

 According to Sunita, most urban gardeners are frustrated by the lack of garden supplies and information on how to improve the unfavorable clay soil.  To add to their woes the little information available online and in gardening books) is suited to help gardeners in temperate climates.  The result being tropical gardeners like us are at sea on the how’s and why’s.  

The popularity of urban farming is compounded by the fact that more people in Mumbai are becoming increasingly conscious of not only what they eat but also what is going into what they eat.  The only way to be sure is to grow it yourself.

 To get your own garden patch visit the-urban-gardener.blogspot.com or email urbn.gdnr@gmail.com

Send in an enquiry to Sunita about what it would cost to set up a patch.

As questions on how to grow passion fruit, broccoli, cherry tomatoes and Kafir lime flood Sunita’s mailbox it’s heralding that time when the urban gardener in India has turned adventurous! 

When do you want to join the customized garden bandwagon… Now. Ready, get set, grow!