Multi-Storey Garden Price In Kenya

Grekkon Limited supplies and installs multi-storey gardens in Kenya for both rural, and urban farming communities. They form an excellent kitchen garden for day to day household vegetables provision. Besides this, the company’s agronomy division provides on site training to farmers on which food crops to grow, how to grow them, and the general maintainance of the multi-storey garden units. The company’s multi-storey garden price in Kenya does not inlcude this agronomy training service, which is offered free of charge

 

Multi-Storey Garden Price In Kenya

The multi-storey garden price in Kenya depends on:

1. The geomembrane thickness. The company’s multi-storey gardens are supplied either as 0.75mm or 1mm thick geomembranes. The client chooses the most approprite thickness for their garden. The cost of a 0.75mm unit is Kes 2,500, and tht of a 1mm is Kes 3,000
2. If it includes installation fee. Where the company provides installation services, an additional charge of Kes 1,000/ unit applies to the aforementioned cost

The provided multi-storey garden price in Kenya does not include logistical charges. These depend on the location of delivery

How To Build A Multi-Storey Garden

• Prepare the ground where the unit will be set by ensuring that it is flat, and free of debris
• Collect the requisite amount of soil and manure which you’ll heap next to where the multi-storey garden unit will be set up. Each unit utilises 7 wheelbarrows of soil, and 90kgs of manure. The soil must be of a fine tilth, and the manure fully decomposed
• Mix the soil and the manure evenly
• Cut the dam liner material into 5 pieces each of the required dimensions
• Weld the cut out five dam liner pieces to form individual circles
• Lay the first cut out piece on the piece on the ground in a circular formation. The diameter will be 2M
• Lay the second cut out piece in the middle of the first one. The diameter will be 1M
• Lay the third cut out piece in the middle of the second one. The diameter will be 0.5M
• Lay the forth cut out piece in the middle of the third one. The diameter will be 0.25M
• Lay the fifth cut out piece in the middle of the forth one. The diameter will be 0.1M
• Add soil/ manure mixture to the gaps between the cones
• Add water/ irrigate
• Establish your crop

The top most part unlike the others below which are circular strips is a completely circular garden with an area of 78.5cm square

Benefits of a Muli-Storey Garden

i. Space utilisation. Similar to a storeyed house, this garden saves considerable amount of space

ii. Crop diversity. A framer will choose to have different crops in one multi-storey unit

iii. Ease of management. It is easy to irrigate, weed, and fertilise. Irrigation will be done by overhead watering, or intalling a drip irrigation system on the unit

iv. Ease of establishment. It can be set up anywhere, so long as there is adequate sunlight. Farmers will have it indoors or outdoors

v. Portability. The garden can disassembled, and moved from one location to another