Grow-Bag Farming Kit, Installed in Kolkata

A kit installed ahead of the wet season gets extra drainage holes and a raised placement off the floor, so the bags are not sitting in runoff by the second week of heavy rain of the kind Howrah records through July.

A kit installed during the dry months faces the opposite problem, more watering and less natural moisture, so we set the bag size and soil mix to hold water longer instead.

What goes into the bag on day one

The kit is installed in a single visit: bags, soil, seedlings and a drip line laid out and running before we leave, rather than delivered as parts for the homeowner to assemble.

We choose vegetables and herbs already proven in this delta's soil and climate for the starter planting, rather than defaulting to whatever seed packets are on hand.

What's handed over at the end of the visit

Before we leave, the homeowner gets a short watering and feeding note specific to whichever crops went into the bags that day, since a grow bag dries out and depletes its soil faster than a bed of the same size in the ground.

A follow-up call is offered a few weeks in to check on how the planting has taken, since the first month is when a new grow-bag setup either establishes or shows a problem worth fixing early.

Choosing bag size for what is actually being grown

A shallow-rooted leafy green and a deeper-rooted vegetable like eggplant need different bag depths, and using one standard bag size for both is one of the more common reasons a grow-bag setup underperforms in its first season.

We size the bags to the specific crop list agreed at setup rather than installing a uniform batch and letting the plants adapt to whatever they were given.