Urban dwellers everywhere can enjoy fresh food flowers and keep flat roofs cooler too.
Roof top vegetable bedding.
The last and third method is to make your whole roof or some selected part a vegetation ground like a regular garden.
But the making process of a raised bed garden on the roof is a little bit different from a conventionally raised bed garden.
First method is to make a container garden on terrace second one is to make a lot of raised beds to grow plants either permanent made of concrete or wooden.
1 you can create any style of rooftop garden with container grown plants from a few simple herb plants to a formal elegant potager.
Even 6 to 8 inches can be enough.
Containers are perfect for rooftop gardens because they are light portable flexible and affordable.
This functional wall block allows you to easily create a raised garden bed border or even outdoor furniture.
In this example i filled my raised garden bed practically.
Look for storage space.
It should hold enough soil for root growth.
In just 30 minutes you can have your garden built just add soil or mulch and you are ready to start planting.
These vegetable beds are enough to improve water drainage.
They can be designed to grow to produce provide play space give shade and shelter or be there as a living green area.
Using a raised bed for growing vegetables allows you to control the soil quality and prevent it from becoming compacted.
Raised bed gardening on rooftop.
The beds do not have to be very high off the ground to get the benefits from being in a raised bed.
Rooftop gardens are man made green spaces on the highest levels of industrial commercial and residential structures.
It s no fun lugging tools fertilizers and soil up to the roof every time you want to garden.
In fact rooftop gardens help reduce the heat island that urban areas experience.
In this video i show how you can fill a raised vegetable garden bed and save money on soil costs.
Raised bed method.
If desired an automatic watering system can be set up to reduce time spent watering.
A guide to rooftop vegetable gardening design layout.
Rooftop gardens allow for homegrown veggies and flower gardens in that often unused space.
Here you get enough room to decorate your garden the way you want it.
The easiest and most personal approach to rooftop gardening is the use of containers and raised beds.
The beds have to be at least 10 inches deep.
If you want to avoid hurting your back place the bed on stilts.
Roof garden construction can be done by three methods.
Simply stack and link the blocks with 2 x 6 wooden boards.
Vegetable roots can grow unimpeded.
Rooftop beds and containers will dry out quickly and may need to be watered daily during the hottest parts of summer.