Services
Sumithra Srikant and her team have been setting up and rescuing terrace and balcony gardens across Chennai for 4+ years — and teaching the technique as they go.
From bare terrace to growing garden
We plan the layout, build the growing beds, fill them with the right soil mix, and plant it out — sized to your space, your sunlight and what you actually want to eat.
For gardens that have stopped producing
Spent soil is the single most common reason a garden stalls. We strip it out, rebuild it with compost, manure and mineral amendments, and re-inoculate it with the beneficial fungi and bacteria that make nutrients available again.
Someone who knows your garden, on a schedule
Regular visits to feed, prune, repot, and catch pest problems while they are still small. Particularly worth it if you travel, or if the garden has grown past what a weekend can handle.
Learn to do it yourself
The part the founder cares about most. A working session in your own garden covering what to grow when, how to read what a plant is telling you, and how to manage pests without reaching for chemicals.
Pricing depends on the size of the space and what it needs. Send us an enquiry or a few photos and we'll quote properly — no site visit charge within Chennai.
Work we've done
These are reviews of service visits, not product orders.
Sumithra Srikant runs Aapti Gardening Solutions. She is very passionate about gardening , especially terrace kitchen garden. I am one of her ardent admirers and followers. I am a novice in gardening . She has guided me through out the last 3 or 4 years and assisted me personally in setting up my terrace kitchen garden.
Professional and thorough work executed by The team of Aapti, under the personal supervision of Sumithra. Within a few days, seeing the difference in my balcony garden - plants are happy and flowering. Sumithra is so passionate and knowledgeable and gives a personal touch to her work. Pleasure to work with her and Aapti team.
People who know what they are doing, and have been doing it for a long time! These are not your "thotta velai" folks you find in your neighbourhood who know just how to use a shovel and "gadapparai". Sumitra sent Velu and Gopal and their team to rejuvenate our garden. Not only did they understand our requirements at the beginning, but they executed perfectly over the course of the day, informed us of their lunch break, and what's more, cleaned up nicely when they were done. Worth every rupee spent!
Aapti team did soil change for my terrace garden a few months back. They have done a fabulous job my garden is now vibrant with 🌺, 🌹 and jasmine. Thank you team,🙏
Get in touch
Tell us the space and what you'd like from it. We'll come back with what's realistic and what it will cost.
Where we work
Chennai and the immediate surrounds. For sites further out, get in touch anyway — we sometimes travel for larger projects and farm consultations.
