Roof Top Vegetable Bedding

This functional wall block allows you to easily create a raised garden bed border or even outdoor furniture.

Roof top vegetable bedding.

In just 30 minutes you can have your garden built just add soil or mulch and you are ready to start planting. Vegetable roots can grow unimpeded. The easiest and most personal approach to rooftop gardening is the use of containers and raised beds. In fact rooftop gardens help reduce the heat island that urban areas experience.

A guide to rooftop vegetable gardening design layout. Raised bed method. Simply stack and link the blocks with 2 x 6 wooden boards. Raised bed gardening means growing plants in soil that is higher than the ground.

These vegetable beds are enough to improve water drainage. Raised bed gardening on rooftop. If you want to avoid hurting your back place the bed on stilts. Urban dwellers everywhere can enjoy fresh food flowers and keep flat roofs cooler too.

Rooftop beds and containers will dry out quickly and may need to be watered daily during the hottest parts of summer. But the making process of a raised bed garden on the roof is a little bit different from a conventionally raised bed garden. Even 6 to 8 inches can be enough. In this example i filled my raised garden bed practically.

It s no fun lugging tools fertilizers and soil up to the roof every time you want to garden. Look for storage space. Rooftop gardens are man made green spaces on the highest levels of industrial commercial and residential structures. Using a raised bed for growing vegetables allows you to control the soil quality and prevent it from becoming compacted.

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. It should hold enough soil for root growth. 1 you can create any style of rooftop garden with container grown plants from a few simple herb plants to a formal elegant potager. Roof garden construction can be done by three methods.

Here you get enough room to decorate your garden the way you want it. If desired an automatic watering system can be set up to reduce time spent watering. The beds do not have to be very high off the ground to get the benefits from being in a raised bed. Making a raised bed vegetable garden on the roof is more flexible than a container based garden.

Rooftop gardens allow for homegrown veggies and flower gardens in that often unused space. In this video i show how you can fill a raised vegetable garden bed and save money on soil costs. It is suitable for any edible garden on the roofs. The beds have to be at least 10 inches deep.