About me
Hi, I'm Aparna.
Six years of growing vegetables in a small Stuttgart rental. No formal training, no big garden — just a 4m² patio, a lot of trial and error, and a harvest every week of the growing season.
The small-space conviction
4m² is not a limitation
A small space isn't the obstacle it appears to be — it's a clarifying constraint. When you only have 4m², you stop growing things you don't actually eat. You stop planting for looks alone. You start asking better questions: what's worth the space, what produces all season, and what actually works in Stuttgart's climate.
I have no formal gardening qualification. What I do have is six years of tested, failed, and refined experience growing in exactly the kind of small German garden that most gardening books forget to write for. Everything on this site is grounded in that reality.
"I don't have enough space" is rarely the real problem. Treating a small garden like a scaled-down version of a large one usually is.
— Aparna, Bring Nature Inside
Get in touch
Reach out to me
Have a question about growing in a small space? Want to know if a consultation is right for you? Or just want to say hello — I'd love to hear from you.
I reply to every message personally, usually within a couple of days.