Green Roof Vegetable Garden

Since 2007 a rotating cast of professors students and volunteers have planted and maintained a flourishing fruit and vegetable garden.

Green roof vegetable garden.

This innovative infrastructure offers an excellent prospect for inner city gardening. Producing fresh leafy vegetables for the university community is an added bonus. If you re considering a rooftop garden there are a couple of directions you could go in. Photo by ed brennen macayla cote of mill city grows helps transfer vegetables to growing containers at the new green roof garden at university crossing.

For example the university of california at berkley recommends a soil depth of 9 to 12 inches for shallow rooted vegetables like beets lettuce onions and spinach. Green roof accessible rooftops make excellent spaces for growing plants herbs and vegetables. Fully planted green roofs where the roof is covered with soil and the plants are in the ground make great environmental sense but they are too difficult for homeowners to undertake on their own. Green roofs are rooftops equipped to grow gardens.

Extensive green roofs are not well suited to vegetables and herbs because the growing medium is very shallow. Like any garden green roofs can achieve multiple purposes. In the 1960 s a green roof was constructed atop the uga geography geology building to serve as a temperature buffer for the climatology research laboratory. Due to their comparative height with other buildings and trees they tend not to be in the shadows during any time of the day and therefore vegetables benefit from maximum levels of sunlight.

They also make efficient use of rainwater. They can grow produce boost and attract biodiversity or create specific landscapes and aesthetic styles. Rooftop gardens are oftentimes public spaces usually have specialized irrigation systems and may incorporate courtyards. Green roof garden designs are usually one of two types.