Green Roof Plants Edible

This can be made out of timber while off the shelf installations are typically metal.

Green roof plants edible.

Strawberries and hardy herbs can be grown on an edible green roof green roof construction. I felt very fortunate that i. Edible plants require sufficient nutrients to support their rapid growth cycle and the energy needed to bear fruit. Think of a green roof as a lasagne of ingredients.

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. Standard garden thyme thymus vulgaris is another edible herb you can plant along your green roof. It tends to grow in a dry rocky location like its native mediterranean basin and the plants grow to a few inches tall with purple and pink flowers in the early summer months. 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.

Green roofs of creeping plants and herbs need some sort of frame around the perimeter to hold everything in place. Photo by tomoko naka.