Cone Gardens

More vegetables from a very small space
  • Tiered cone garden with leafy greens
  • Cone gardens under shade net
  • Cone gardens inside a home-made shade house

Grow upwards, not outwards

A cone garden gives you your own vegetable garden in a space where a normal bed would hardly fit.

A cone garden is a raised garden built as a stack of circular tiers, each smaller than the one below, so it rises into a cone. Every tier is a planting ring, which means one cone holds many more plants than the same patch of flat ground. It is one of the most widely used technologies when you have a relatively small area for vegetables, which is why it suits school compounds, homes and urban plots.

  • Many plants on a small footprint
  • Watering is concentrated, so less water is wasted
  • Less bending, weeding and trampling of crops
  • Easy to cover with shade net against harsh sun
  • Great for sukuma wiki, spinach, managu, terere, onions and herbs
  • A clear, visual teaching tool for learners
What ARA does

We build the cone, fill it with a compost-rich soil mix, plant it with the crops you want, and show you how to water, feed and replant it. For schools, cone gardens come with training and an optional maintenance plan.