Green Roof Vegetable Garden

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.

Green roof vegetable garden.

This innovative infrastructure offers an excellent prospect for inner city gardening. They also make efficient use of rainwater. 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. 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. A wall sign provides details about the green roof garden and other urban agriculture sites around campus. Intensive green roofs are rooftop gardens where trees shrubs and herbaceous plants are grown. Like any garden green roofs can achieve multiple purposes.

Ozone damages local crops such as corn beans and wheat arthur 2005 the rooftop garden has a depth of 18 inches of media which produces vegetables such as artichoke sweet potatoes squash kale beets carrots radishes broccoli peppers zucchini beans turnips eggplants melons pumpkins and ground cherries. Green roof accessible rooftops make excellent spaces for growing plants herbs and vegetables. Rooftop gardens are oftentimes public spaces usually have specialized irrigation systems and may incorporate courtyards. Extensive green roofs are not well suited to vegetables and herbs because the growing medium is very shallow.

Green roof garden designs are usually one of two types. Producing fresh leafy vegetables for the university community is an added bonus. 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. 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.