How To Grow A Living Roof

Many of the most common culinary herbs happen to grow in dry rocky places making them ideal candidates for a green roof.

How to grow a living roof. Build a living roof green roof step 1. The methods for planting include rolling out sod right on top a roof to more complex methods including a system of layering an assorted variety of vegetation and plants. A huge variety of planting methods can be used from rolling sod right onto the rooftop to complex layered systems with a variety of plants. The method you choose will vary depending on the size and type of roof you want to plant.

Poke the asparagus cutting tool into the moss to make room for the sedum roots and tuck the plants in firming them with your fingers as you go. Rebecca uses hardy sedums in her living roof birdhouses. There are a number of types of living roof ranging from the one i ve made enough for some. Use a mixture of organic and inorganic materials.

Topsoil soil from the garden is not used for green roofs because it s usually too heavy and tends to become too compacted. This is where a living roof crosses over to become an herb garden. With this type of roof planting mediums are much deeper which can be between seven and 24 inches and can consist of lawn shrubs trees and perennials for example. I discussed with friends how i d grow fruit up there and imagined myself laying in.

If you want your roof to function as a garden and have large plants and even water features then the intensive green roof is for you. Many city planners recommend that all new construction projects grow a living roof with many cities offering education on the subject. A meadow on the top of your house. Use a lightweight growing medium.

Focus on keeping the elements lightweight but water retaining. After doing quite a bit of reading on the internet ok well an afternoon or so i soon realised. In my opinion there s no more pleasing way to cover a shelter than with a green roof of living flowers vines and grasses. Who wouldn t want that.