If you want to avoid hurting your back place the bed on stilts.
Roof top vegetable bedding.
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.
Raised bed gardening means growing plants in soil that is higher than the ground.
1 you can create any style of rooftop garden with container grown plants from a few simple herb plants to a formal elegant potager.
Vegetable roots can grow unimpeded.
It is suitable for any edible garden on the roofs.
Using a raised bed for growing vegetables allows you to control the soil quality and prevent it from becoming compacted.
In this example i filled my raised garden bed practically.
The beds do not have to be very high off the ground to get the benefits from being in a raised bed.
Containers are perfect for rooftop gardens because they are light portable flexible and affordable.
In just 30 minutes you can have your garden built just add soil or mulch and you are ready to start planting.
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.
Even 6 to 8 inches can be enough.
This functional wall block allows you to easily create a raised garden bed border or even outdoor furniture.
Roof garden construction can be done by three methods.
The last and third method is to make your whole roof or some selected part a vegetation ground like a regular garden.
Rooftop gardens are man made green spaces on the highest levels of industrial commercial and residential structures.
Simply stack and link the blocks with 2 x 6 wooden boards.
These vegetable beds are enough to improve water drainage.
The beds have to be at least 10 inches deep.
Here you get enough room to decorate your garden the way you want it.
They can be designed to grow to produce provide play space give shade and shelter or be there as a living green area.
Making a raised bed vegetable garden on the roof is more flexible than a container based garden.
Raised bed gardening on rooftop.
A guide to rooftop vegetable gardening design layout.
The easiest and most personal approach to rooftop gardening is the use of containers and raised beds.
Look for storage space.
Rooftop gardens allow for homegrown veggies and flower gardens in that often unused space.
It should hold enough soil for root growth.
If desired an automatic watering system can be set up to reduce time spent watering.
Urban dwellers everywhere can enjoy fresh food flowers and keep flat roofs cooler too.
In fact rooftop gardens help reduce the heat island that urban areas experience.