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Ask This Old House landscape designer Jenn Nawada learns about rooftop gardening and different ways to grow plants in raised beds.
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Time: Varies
Cost: 0
Skill Level:
Easy
Tools:
Drill/driver
½-inch drill bit
Shopping List:
Milk crates
Corrugated feeding trough
Landscaping fabric
Packing peanuts
Steps:
1. Before starting any type of rooftop gardening, consult a structural engineer to figure out if additional weight is safe.
2. Align seeds in long rows of enhanced shale soil mix, about 10-12 inches high.
3. Use drip irrigation, so the water goes directly into the root system.
4. For raised bed installed in a yard, use untreated 2’x10’ lumber like fir, cedar, or redwood.
5. Cut the lumber to desired length and use a drill/driver and wood screws to fasten the sides together into a rectangle. The bed’s width should not exceed four feet, but the length can be customized.
6. Fill the raised bed with planting soil and plants of your choice.
7. To create the feeding trough raised bed, use a drill/driver and a ½-inch drill bit to poke holes in the bottom for drainage.
8. Put down a layer of landscaping fabric on the bottom and then fill the bottom third with packing peanuts to lessen the weight of the container.
9. Fill the remaining two thirds of the trough with planting soil and plants of your choice.
10. To create a milk crate raised bed, cut out 1’x1’ landscaping fabric and layer it into the crate, or use a prefabricated square foot grow bag.
11. Fill the milk crate with planting soil and plant of your choice. Larger crops like peppers and tomatoes should have one plant per container, while smaller crops like lettuce can be planted up to four in one container.
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Video Rating: / 5
I really liked the idea of growing on the roofs of buildings!
Rooftop gardens are great, but they don't change the fact that strip malls and big box stores are extraordinary wastes of land that promote major pollution and need to be eliminated from our nation's urban development scheme if we are going to accommodate continuing population growth and stay healthy.
I didn't like this one. It's great when 'green' is crazy subsidized, and a one beet can cost $5…
For those who can charge $1 for each beet…
actually,"actually,"actually"actually"actually"actually
You could definitely get 2-3 pepper plants, depending on the type of pepper, into one of those crates. They don't take up as much room as tomatoes do.
could you send the link on the grow bags that fits in the plastic crates. please
are you ever gonna upload more of the full house renovation project series?
Damn, that Munters RTU behind them. Holy crap.
Is this wholefoods Lynnfield?
any idea where to buy the presewn liners for the milk crates?
Actually like actually you can actually, actually.
What percentage of Wholefood stores have this on top? If just a few, this is just PR.
Who else thinks that having plants on your fire escape is a bad idea.
Love it, they should do a roof grass type system. I have seen a few places like that, wondering how they build those
She is pale for someone that works with garden. I really like the box/basket at the end
So, I like TOH, and I like everything you do, but please don't introduce bad acting and unnecessary dramatization into what should be self-explanatory technology. Please!
15 uses of the word "actually". Average of 1 every 26 seconds.
How can one be sure the roof can take on all these extra weight of soil, plants, water, etc.?
why not hydroponics?