A rooftop terrace lined with timber planters of marigolds and salad greens behind tall slatted screens.

The shortest supply chain is your own balcony.

Whether it's your balcony, terrace, driveway or rooftop, you can grow your own fresh, healthy, organic food.

The whole loop, not one product

A planter is the easy part.

Very few people who try kitchen gardening in Pakistan fail at buying pots. They fail in week six, when the soil compacts, the aphids arrive, the June sun cooks the root zone and nobody has told them what to do next. So we sell the whole loop instead of one link in it.

Containers

Built for the surface

Canvas planters and raised timber beds, free-draining and sized to your floor area and to what your slab can carry.

Soil

Living, not sterile

Our own fresh vermicompost blended with coir and mineral amendments, mixed per crop family rather than sold as one universal bag.

Water

Sized for our summers

Wick-and-reservoir bases, mulch and shade that survive a week away from home, because hand watering twice a day is why most people quit.

Structure

Trellis, screen, shade

Frames built into the bed itself — string trellis for climbers, slatted screens for privacy, clip-on shade cloth for May to August.

Seed

Open-pollinated only

No hybrids. Free seedlings to start you off, and free seed or seedlings for life in exchange for letting one plant run to seed.

Community

Generating communities

Free tutorials, seasonal letters, Saturday sessions and school beds. It is in our tagline because it is the point of the business.

Three ranges

Planters chosen for the floor they stand on.

Weight, drainage and heat behave differently on a tiled balcony, a concrete roof and a paved courtyard. We do not sell one container and pretend it suits all three.

Two long canvas planters on a rooftop, each with a string trellis frame and a green shade panel overhead.

Canvas Planters

ALSO CALLED FABRIC PLANTERS

A timber frame carrying a breathable canvas liner. Roots reach the fabric wall, meet air and stop circling, so the plant builds a dense feeder network instead of a knotted ball. The lightest option on a slab and the most forgiving of heavy watering. Our default on rooftops.

  • Lowest load per running foot — best where the slab is a question
  • String trellis frame and shade panel built into the same structure
  • Free-draining by design: no reservoir, no wicks, no self-watering base
  • Hand watered, with mulch doing the work of holding moisture through June
An L-shaped run of timber planters with tall slatted screens around a rooftop lawn, a frangipani tree at the corner.

Reclaimed timber

TIERED BALCONY BEDS

Built from heat-treated shipping pallets that would otherwise be burnt. We strip, sand and polish them, then line the inside with food-grade HDPE so the growing medium never touches the timber. You get real root depth and a tiered balcony run at a fraction of new-timber cost, and every bed carries its own saw marks.

  • Tiered runs that turn a narrow balcony into three growing levels
  • Heat-treated stock only, never chemically fumigated
  • Lined inside with food-grade HDPE
  • Slatted privacy screen fitted to the same frame
  • Grows flowers as readily as vegetables
Waist-height pine planters with slatted under-shelves, packed with mature tomato plants staked on bamboo canes.

Premium pine

WAIST-HEIGHT, ON LEGS

Kiln-dried, planed and oiled with a food-safe finish. Raised to waist height on legs, with a slatted under-shelf for tools and spare soil, so nobody has to kneel on hot paving. These are the planters for a front courtyard or a portico.

  • Made to your dimensions, including bench and screen runs
  • Waist-height planting — no bending, no kneeling
  • Ladder trellis, castors and a wick-and-reservoir base optional
  • Re-oiled on the annual maintenance visit

Ready to grow

Delivered planted, not flat-packed.

We arrive with the beds built, the soil already alive and the first crop in the ground. You water it that evening. The gap between a garden that lasts and a balcony ornament is almost always the first fortnight.

Balcony

1–2 tiered beds · from 25 sq ft

  • Herbs, salad leaves and two fruiting crops
  • Reclaimed timber with a slatted privacy screen
  • Wick-and-reservoir base, so a weekend away is survivable
  • Free seedlings for the first planting
  • One handover walkthrough
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Terrace & rooftop

4–8 beds · 150–400 sq ft

  • Canvas planters and self-watering timber beds, laid out to the sun path
  • String trellis and clip-on shade panels
  • Wick-and-reservoir bases under the timber beds
  • Fresh vermicompost through the first year
  • Four seasonal visits
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Trellis, screens and shade

Grow upward. Then get out of the sun.

Every bed we build can carry its own frame, so the structure is not an accessory bolted on afterwards. A string trellis takes karela, lauki, peas and beans. A slatted screen resolves an overlooked boundary. A clip-on panel takes the worst off May.

  • VerticalA six-foot trellis carries roughly the yield of twenty square feet of floor. On a balcony that is the difference between a hobby and a supply.
  • PrivacyA planted slat screen fixes an overlooked balcony faster and more cheaply than masonry, and it fruits.
  • ShadeRemovable cloth at 30, 50 and 70 percent, fitted in April and taken down in September.
  • NettingFine mesh cages over young beds keep fruit fly and cabbage moth off without a single spray.
Five newly installed timber planters in a row at dusk, each carrying a tall slatted screen above the bed.
fill Reservoir holds five to ten days at peak summer

Watering

Designed around the week you are not home.

A container garden in Karachi in June can lose its whole root-zone moisture in one afternoon. Twice-daily hand watering is the single most common reason people quit in their second summer. Water is a design problem, so we design it rather than leaving it to discipline.

  • ReservoirA sealed water chamber sits below the growing medium. You fill it through a tube at the end of the bed and top it up every five to ten days.
  • WickColumns of soil run down into the reservoir and draw moisture upward by capillary action. The bed takes what it needs and no more, so the roots are never waterlogged and never parched.
  • MulchThe unglamorous half. Straw or bark over bare soil cuts evaporation sharply and holds root temperature down.
  • ShadeFrom May to August, shade cloth over fruiting beds is often worth more than extra water.

Self-watering is available on the timber and pine ranges. Canvas Planters are free-draining by design — no reservoir and no wicks — so they are watered by hand, and mulch does the rest.

Vermicompost and seed

The two things worth being obsessive about.

A handful of dark, crumbly vermicompost with two live earthworms visible in it. Lush Gardens vermicompost in kraft paper sacks of one, two and three kilogrammes, marked one hundred percent organic.

Fresh vermicompost, worked by worms

Chemical fertiliser feeds the plant and starves the soil. Vermicompost feeds the soil and lets the soil feed the plant — and a fed soil buffers heat, holds water and resists disease without further help from you.

We run our own worm beds and supply the castings fresh, in one, two and three kilogramme sacks. Fresh matters: the microbial life that does the actual work is at its peak when the castings have not spent months sitting in a warehouse. If you would rather make your own, we sell the bin, the bedding and the starter worms, and we will show you how to run it.

  • BlendedContainer mixes built per crop family — leafy, fruiting, root — not one universal potting soil.
  • RefreshedBeds are topped and re-amended between seasons rather than emptied and replaced.

We do not sell hybrids

Every variety we carry is open-pollinated, which means its seed comes true. Save it, and next season's crop is the same crop — adapted a little further to your balcony, your water and your soil with each generation. Hybrid seed will not do that, which is why it has to be bought again every season.

Open-pollinated seed is also the only thing a seed library can be built from. You cannot hold a shared local stock in varieties that fall apart in the second generation.

The seed exchange

Every Lush Gardens garden starts with free seedlings. In return we ask for one thing, and it is written into the handover: you let at least one plant of each crop run to seed rather than harvesting it. At the end of the season we collect a share of that seed. You keep the rest.

i.

We give the seedlings

Your first planting is on us — raised from open-pollinated stock in our own trays and hardened off before it reaches you.

ii.

You spare one plant

One plant of each crop is left to bolt, flower and set seed instead of being eaten. We show you which plant to choose and when to stop watering it.

iii.

We collect a share

At season's end we take a portion of that seed back into the library, cleaned and dried alongside you so you learn the method rather than just handing over a bag.

iv.

You are supplied for life

From then on your seed and seedlings are free, for as long as you keep growing. The library holds the stock; you hold a claim on it.

This is not charity and it is not a loyalty scheme. A seed stock grown out across a hundred different balconies every year is more resilient than one grown in a single field, and every household that learns to save seed is one less household on the annual repurchase treadmill.

Generating communities

Everything we know, given away.

The commercial case for keeping growing knowledge behind a paywall is weak. Gardeners who know what they are doing buy more soil, more seed and more planters, and they tell their neighbours. So the teaching is free and will stay free.

FIELD GUIDE

Reading your balcony before you buy anything

Six hours of sun, four, or two — how to measure it properly over one weekend, and what each answer rules in and out.

VIDEO · URDU AND ENGLISH

Mixing container soil from scratch

Coir, vermicompost, sand and amendments. Ratios for leafy, fruiting and root crops, using what a Pakistani market actually stocks.

TROUBLESHOOTING

Aphids, whitefly and mealybug without poison

Neem oil timing, soap sprays, yellow traps and the predators already living on your roof. What works and what is folklore.

SEED SAVING

Taking seed from your own plants

Which plant to spare, when to let it dry down, how to clean and store the seed so it is still viable next season.

WORKSHOP

Saturday sessions

Monthly hands-on mornings on composting, seed saving and pruning, hosted at client gardens with the owner's blessing.

SCHOOLS

The classroom bed programme

A subsidised raised bed, soil, seed and three teaching visits for any school that will give it a sunny wall. Ask us.

Selected projects

Gardens we look after.

A rooftop with three runs of dark timber planters full of greens and flowers around a lawn, city skyline behind.

Rooftop garden, dark timber

Three planted runs wrapped around an artificial-lawn sitting area, each with its own slatted screen for shade and privacy against the neighbours.

A long run of raised timber beds being filled with compost, the green HDPE liner visible along the top edge before planting.

Side run, during install

Mid-installation, with the food-grade HDPE liner still visible along the rim. This is the layer that keeps soil off the timber and the timber out of the wet.

Five newly filled timber planters in a row at dusk, each carrying a tall slatted screen above the bed.

Terrace run at dusk

Five beds freshly filled and ready to plant, each screen framing the view rather than blocking it. Photographed the evening the install finished.

A run of timber planters with clipped shrubs and a climbing vine trained up a slatted screen on a bright terrace.

Terrace border and climber

An ornamental planting along a terrace edge — clipped shrubs at the front, a vine trained up the screen behind. Not everything we build is for the kitchen.

A narrow side passage with long planters of mint against a wall-mounted wire trellis.

Side passage, mint run

A three-foot service passage nobody was using, turned into a standing mint and chilli supply with a wire trellis run along the wall.

An L-shaped run of timber planters with tall slatted screens around a rooftop lawn, a frangipani tree at the corner.

Rooftop, L-shaped run

Beds turned around two sides of a roof terrace with a frangipani anchoring the corner, screens giving the whole space an enclosed, garden feel.

Where we install

Karachi, for now.

Installation and maintenance need a team that can come back next month, so we only promise it where we have one. That is Karachi today. We would rather run three hundred gardens properly in one city than three hundred badly across four.

A long season and almost no frost, offset by humidity, salt on the breeze and hard tap water. We build for drainage here, lean on Canvas Planters where the slab is a question, and plan shade before we plan anything else.

AREAS
DHA, Clifton, PECHS, Bahria Town, Gulshan, Scheme 33, and everywhere in between. Ask if you are outside these.
VISITS
Weekly installation slots. Seasonal maintenance rounds four times a year.
ELSEWHERE
Vermicompost, seed and planters ship nationwide. Ask and we will tell you honestly whether a garden will work where you are.

Consultation

Start with a site visit.

Or simply message us.

PHONE AND WHATSAPP
+92 321 9991131
EMAIL
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HOURS
Monday to Sunday, 11:00 to 19:00

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