Green Roof Vegetable Garden

The easiest and most personal approach to rooftop gardening is the use of containers and raised beds.

Green roof vegetable garden. 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. Unlike traditional black tar roofs green roofs reduce energy costs by absorbing heat instead of attracting it and. 7 to share information about their past involvement in green roof related projects and brainstorm ideas for building researching and promoting the green roof project planned for the athens campus. This 12 000 square foot green roof is located on howlett hall home to the osu department of horticulture crop science department of food science and technology and the chadwick arboretum learning.

Thirty one ohio university students both graduate and undergraduate from seven colleges and 14 different majors got together nov. In august and early september of 2013 the green roof on howlett hall was installed in the chadwick arboretum learning gardens the first retrofit green roof at the ohio state university. You can create any style of rooftop garden with container grown plants from a few simple herb plants to a formal elegant potager. Visit one of the pay by plate or pay n display parking machines to park.

Herb and vegetable gardening on a green roof. The learning gardens are located south of woody hayes drive as fyffe road circles in front of howlett hall. A green roof also known as a rooftop garden or a living roof is a vegetative layer grown on a rooftop. Extensive green roofs are not well suited to vegetables and herbs because the growing medium is very shallow.