A century of soil. Made for Indian homes.
The Khatkar family has farmed in Dhankhari, a village in Jind district of Haryana, for four generations. PotsAlive is the modern chapter of that work.
Where it began
Around a hundred years ago, Deepak Khatkar's great-grandfather started farming a small piece of land in Dhankhari, three hours northwest of Delhi. Wheat in winter, bajra through summer, mustard once the fields turned over. The soil there is heavy alluvial, the water table sits not too deep, and the canal that now runs past the village only reached Jind in the 1960s under the new Bhakra system. His grandfather added rice once the water came in.
Three generations later, the same family still works the same land. Deepak grew up around it. He also grew up watching his mother's tulsi die on their Delhi balcony, year after year, while a field three hours away grew anything you put a seed in.
What changed
In 2020 Deepak started experimenting at home. Our family already knew how to feed soil. The question was how to translate that knowledge into something that fit a six-inch pot on a Mumbai balcony or a kitchen window in Bangalore. He pressed neem oil cold, mixed fertilizer sticks out of compost and bone meal instead of synthetic NPK, sourced coco peat from the coir mills in Tamil Nadu, and gave samples to friends and neighbours. The plants stopped dying.
We registered PotsAlive formally in January 2023. Today we run our own manufacturing plant in New Delhi. Our team checks every batch before it ships. Over 100,000 of our products have reached Indian gardens through Amazon and Meesho for retail, IndiaMART and more than 20 nursery partners for bulk, and the WhatsApp number we still answer ourselves.
In 2026 we added the Roto line. Pots were the obvious gap. Customers who buy a fertilizer stick still need somewhere to push it into, and most plastic pots in the market crack within two summers. Roto is rotomolded, single-piece, in six finishes. The same Delhi plant ships it nested for delivery so a four-size set arrives in the footprint of one large pot.
What we believe
- Soil knowledge is generational. Four generations of Khatkars have learned what real plants need. We just package it for pots.
- Indian conditions are different. Delhi summer, Mumbai humidity, Bangalore monsoon. Our dosage charts are written for these, not for a European greenhouse.
- Plants don't need a chemistry degree. Slow-release sticks, organic oil, real compost. That's the whole stack.
- Buy from the maker. Every order ships from the same Delhi plant, packed by the same hands.
Where to find us
Manufacturer. PotsAlive · Proprietor Deepak Khatkar
Manufacturing plant. New Delhi 110041, India
Family farm. Dhankhari, Jind district, Haryana
Retail. Amazon India · Meesho
Bulk and B2B. IndiaMART
WhatsApp. +91 72177 78502
If you're a gardener, talk to us. If you run a nursery and want to stock our sticks, talk to us. We're not a brand running on a venture round. We're a farming family that built a plant nutrition plant. We like the work.