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DIMO cultivates home gardening with “footprints”

Management Representatives of DIMO together with the team of social media content creators at the launch of footprints.
Management Representatives of DIMO together with the team of social media content creators at the launch of footprints.

DIMO, one of Sri Lanka’s leading conglomerates, continues to demonstrate its respected credentials as a responsible corporate entity with the launching of its brand-new venture footprints Do-It-Yourself (DIY) home gardening kits.

The footprints home gardening kit comes in two types - “Nursery Care Kit” and “Complete Care Kit”.The Nursery Care Kit is a convenient home gardening combo pack which includes seeds, coir pots, peat pellets and plant markers. This can be used as a starter kit to grow your vegetables at home. This facilitates the growth of the plant in its nursery stage. Once the nursery stage is completed, the nursery plant can be transferred to a pot, soil or any other growing medium. Nursery Care kit comes in five different variants and each of the variants has a combination of three crops (Chilli, Tomato, Brinjal, Salad Cucumber, Capsicum, Lettuce, Bell Pepper, Pumpkin, Kekiri, Cucumber, Bitter Gourd, Snake Gourd and Rich Gourd). The Nursery Care kit is recommended for those who have access to a backyard, home garden or plant pots.

The purpose of footprints is to promote home gardening as a family bonding activity which helps the holistic development of children and as a way of relaxation which in return delivers happy and joyful memories and moments with loved ones. The all-in-one DIY home gardening kits consist of all the resources necessary to start growing a plant from the seeding stage and up until it bears fruits.

During his address, DIMO Chairman & Managing Director Ranjith Pandithage explained the importance of maintaining a healthy relationship with nature and the significance of spending quality time with family and loved ones. He stated, “Now, more than ever, there is a need for families to start bonding and creating stronger relationships among themselves and with nature.”

The Complete Care Kit is a comprehensive all-in-one convenient home gardening combo pack. It includes seeds, coir pots, peat pellets, and plant markers to facilitate the nursery stage of the plant and additionally, a grow bag (growing medium), a potting mixture (soil mixture) and fertilizer sachets to accommodate the post-nursery stage. This is a complete kit which facilitates the plant through its complete lifecycle from seeding till it bears fruit. Once the nursery stage is completed, the nursery plant can be transferred to the grow bag included in the kit and allowed to grow until the harvesting time. The Complete Care Kit comes in four different variants (Tomato, Chilli, Capsicum, and Brinjal). This is recommended for those who live in apartments and with a very limited outdoor space at home.

A series of “How to do” videos were also launched and made available on DIMO social media platforms to help users understand each step of the journey more meaningfully. Both types of footprints kits are available at leading supermarkets, e-commerce stores and at www.dimoretail.lk