Like I have been postponing on writing a post on how to start a kitchen garden, I am sure few of you who are reading this have already postponed starting a garden of your own. Oh and I am sure you have plenty of valid reasons for postponing. Few people have lots of space both terrace and land and few like me have lots of passion but less space. It doesn’t matter. So if you have been toying with the idea of gardening and always wanted a push, here it is.. “Just get off your butt and start diggin!”
To start a vegetable garden, you need lots of stuff. Here is the list of things that you need to begin with.
- Seeds/Plants [ Vegetables, Flowers]
- Pots/Seedling trays
- Potting mix/Compost [ Cocopeat, Perlite, Vermiculite]
- Watering cans/sprayers
- Fertilizers( Organic or Inorganic)
In this Part I of multipart series, I am going to share what you need to buy and where. I have spent hours and hours of phone calls/searching the net to find what I want. It is really frustrating to not get what we want and sometimes this can stop one from continuing gardening. Hence I thought I would first write a post on where to get what.
I will also try to put exact address/map where ever possible.
We will go through the list of items one by one.
Seeds/Plants
Fortunately In Bangalore, there are plenty of places that you get good quality seeds of different vegetables and flowers. Here we will see the list of places that sell them.
Lalbagh:
It needs no introduction. It is a great landmark and to get there just call an auto and tell him to take to Lalbagh. Take the double road gate and after going little further inside Lalbagh, on your Left you can see NurseryMen Co-op. They sell all types of vegetable seeds and flower seeds. Vegetable seeds range from Rs 10 upto 100. You also get whole lot of accessories there. They have plastic pots, propagation trays, organic pesticides, Horse Manures, Compost, Neem cake, and a lot more. Make a visit once and you will return with goodies for your garden.
Annadana Seed savers: http://www.annadana.com
Annadana needs a special mention here. They are the only organization that I know of selling a large number of heirloom varieties of Tomatoes, Peppers, Okra, Brinjal, Lettuce, Corn, Squash, Gourds and what not. Do check their website. I get my heirloom seeds from them and hey Dept of Horticulture Hulimavu got their initial seeds from Annadana.
Dept of Horticulture – Hulimavu
Also called as Bio centre, they sell many heirloom seeds. Their speciality is Tissue culture banana plants, Medicinal and Aromatic plants. Their price is very cheap and is very much affordable.
In the map, right opposite to AECS magnolia school is DoH.
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Sahaja samrudha: http://www.sahajasamrudha.org/
Seed savers who save the local heritage varieties of many vegetables. They also have different varieties of Rice, millets etc.
Namdhari seeds
They are a seed company and they sell both OP and Hybrid seeds.
Namdhari seeds are sold in most of their Namdhari Fresh vegetable outlets.
Indo-American Hybrid seeds.
Indo-American Seeds:
Post Bag No 7099, 17th Cross, 2nd ‘A’ Main
K.R.Road, Banashankari II Stage,
Bangalore – 560 070.
Tel: 26760111
Gandhi Nagar Area:
This is a stretch near Majestic Bus stop. Nearest landmark is Sapna Bookhouse. There around 10 shops and all of them selling seeds, fertilizers and other gardening related items.
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New Tharagupet:
You get seeds, fertilizers here and esp if you want in large quantities.
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Lalbagh:
See under seeds section
Indo-American Hybrid seeds – Garden centre
See under seeds section for address;
Potting Mix/Compost
You get good potting mixes in the following places
Lalbagh
Accessories
You get all kinds of accessories like watering cans, sprayers, cutters secateurs, shovel, etc.
Lalbagh
Fertilizers/Pesticides
New Tharagupet,
Gandhi Nagar.
With all the information provided above, it should not be difficult to find anything that you need related to gardening.However, the information I have provided is not exhaustive.
In case you know of a place that sells gardening materials but not listed here. Please send me the info and I will make it available here. So that others get benefited out of it.
More on Part II
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