How to make Rooftop garden ?

 

How to make rooftop garden?

We see different Rooftop gardens at city /town area. But most of the garden are made unplanned. To make a sustainable and fruitful rooftop garden we should maintain some guidelines. If we follow the guidelines you can grow easily different fruits and vegetables .Here discussed some points for rooftop garden.

1.Useful materials: 

Tub (plastic/cement/soil),half drum, plastic bag, permanent bed, axe, spade, pruning shear, sickle, knife,  sovel,  pot, sprinkler, scissors, garden hose, hand sprayer ,soil ,sand, cow dung /manure, pesticide ,fertilizer ,pool, bamboo etc.

2.Preparation of soil and fertilizer

• Collect sandy /sandy loam soil
•  Treat the soil by chemicals/sunlight/burning with saw dust/straw
• Mix the  cow dung or compost and fertilizers

Plant selection

1.Flowers

2.fruit tree-mango,

• orange,
• emon,
• guava
• .jujube,
• hogplum
• ,papya
• ,tarmarind
• ,karanda,
• pomegranate,
• apple

3,vegetables-

• brinjal,
• tomato,
• cabbage,
• cauliflower
• ,chili,onion,
• lalshak.
• lady’s finger,
•  sweet gourd, 
• beans ,
• country gourd,
•  cucumber , 
• puishak, 
• sponge gourd

Method of planting :

• Tub
• Half drum
• Bed
• Planting on tub
• tub should be fill up with soil
• sapling placed middle point
• compact the soil
• watering the plant
• tub placed on roof

other management:

• pruning, 
• pest management
• watering 
• ,drainage ,
• bamboo stick supporting,
•  potting 
• depotting 
•  repotting,
•  training