Growing Vegetables Roof Garden
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Growing vegetables roof garden. How to start a roof garden depends on some issues like. Radishes are one of the quickest growing vegetables and suitable for container vegetable gardening as you can also grow them in small pots. Also bush beans and peas yield excellent harvests when grown in containers. Whether it s fruit shrubs vegetables or herbs most edible plants can be grown in a container on a roof.
You will need a deeper container. The vegetable plants that are the best adapted to container growing are the vegetables and herbs that are grown for their leaves like chards spinach and kale. But these plants don t require a ton of horizontal space which is great for rooftop gardening. A planter that is 6 inches deep is enough but if you are growing larger varieties use 10 inches deep pot.
Root vegetables like carrots radishes and beats do well in containers. Generally your rooftop vegetable garden is exposed to strong winds. After considering the preliminary issues of starting a roof. You can plant radishes closely allow 2 inches of space between each plant in a wide container.
Best beginners guide to grow vegetables on rooftop garden step 1. Things to be considered before starting a rooftop garden. Choose vegetables that can tolerate the conditions. Gardening in the city.
Methods of building a rooftop vegetable garden.