Striving to maximize every inch creative gardeners started experimenting beyond sedums giving edible plants new homes on green roofs and living walls and expanding the possibilities of hyper local food production.
Green roof plants edible.
Green roofs of creeping plants and herbs need some sort of frame around the perimeter to hold everything in place.
1 comment plants sedums and more by admin extensive green roofs are not well suited to vegetables and herbs because the growing medium is very shallow.
Think of a green roof as a lasagne of ingredients.
Numerous vegetables herbs and select fruits such as strawberries and melons may be grown on intensive green roofs that receive frequent watering have ample sunlight and have proper soil.
Standard garden thyme thymus vulgaris is another edible herb you can plant along your green roof.
Photo by tomoko naka.
Strawberries and hardy herbs can be grown on an edible green roof green roof construction.
Ever since i encountered a roof top garden covered with a variety of native plants in the early 1990s in japan it has always been my interest and dream to help create a green roof which is a building roof covered with vegetation.
Edible plants require sufficient nutrients to support their rapid growth cycle and the energy needed to bear fruit.
I felt very fortunate that i.