I have been growing vegetables on the roof for several years, when I bought the edge of the ring, near the temple of Wu Hou, the seventh floor of the community, is running upstairs nearly 90 square meters and four square meters of the platform, seven or eight years of investment to build, is now the most quiet, the most comfortable place in the downtown, there are flowers and grass and green trees, there are wind, rain and clouds floating; There are cats and dogs have a sun room, laundry is flying mood!
First of all, to plant vegetables for the roof must do a good job of waterproof treatment.
Roof planting is best to choose container cultivation, foam boxes, flower POTS, wooden boxes are the best choice, if it is their own top floor to do a cultivation tank after waterproof treatment that is the best.
Roof planting vegetables is mainly the choice of cultivation soil, you can use garden soil with decomposed leaves, or cake fertilizer is the best, do not affect the neighbors because of pollution of the air. Leftover food from the kitchen at home, water for washing rice, fruit peels, and expired yogurt are all good fertilizers.
Rooftop planting is best to choose short growth period, sun resistance, drought resistance, lodging resistance. Preferably leafy. Easier to manage.
Finally, there are vegetables that are rarely infected with pests and diseases, such as coriander. Choose to replant leafy vegetables under the rack vegetables to make use of each other. Both cool and beautiful.
The rooftop terrace is the perfect place to enjoy planting. But there's a trick to how you plant it. Choose properly, plant vegetables and flowers, save effort and trouble, and grow good and more. It's not the right way. It's hard to grow. Today, talk about the roof of the appropriate way to grow vegetables - two.
Second culture is a new way of integrating substrate culture and hydroponics, which integrates the advantages of substrate culture and hydroponics into one, especially suitable for roof planting.
First, province soil:
Roof planting is different from the ground, and moving soil is a big project. To form a minimum planting layer of 20 centimeters on the roof, ten square meters of vegetable gardens need more than 2 cubic meters of soil - almost ten tons of weight, not to mention the safety risks of increasing the floor load, just the amount of handling is daunting!
Adopting the two-culture box method, the same ten square meters of planting area, about 40 two-culture boxes are used, and the matrix amount is 0.4 cubic meters, which is one-fifth of the soil culture. The matrix weight is much lighter, according to the market nutrient soil 50 liters per bag of 15 kilograms, the total weight of less than 300 kilograms. It can be seen that the amount of transport in the province of soil is very obvious.
Second, save trouble
The water retention performance of the 20 cm thick soil layer is poor, and it needs to be watered 3 or 4 times a day in the summer heat season, and an neglect and forgetting may lead to the entire army. Different from the ground, the roof is exposed to the sun in summer, the floor temperature is as high as 50 or 60 degrees, the plants will dry out and die of water shortage, and simply use a blister - a basin of water is also hot water for two hours, and must be watered many times.
The reason why the second culture can cope with the summer heat is mainly the role of hydroponics, and the nutrient solution is in a flowing state, and it flows at the bottom, and is not exposed to the scorching sun. Two cultivation for several consecutive years has proved that in terms of high temperature resistance on the roof, two cultivation does have obvious advantages.
Because the timer automatically circulates the nutrient solution, the second culture does not need to water every day, as long as there is water in the liquid storage tank, at most, it is necessary to observe and replenish the water in the liquid storage tank every day. If a liquid level valve is connected to the water pipe, it is really fully automatic and maintenance-free. Just refill the nutrient solution regularly and adjust the timer interval.
Floor temperatures are often off the charts in summer
If soil culture is used, only leafy vegetables with underdeveloped roots and simple melons and fruits can be planted in the 20cm thick soil layer, and the growth and development of luffa, tomato and other well-developed roots are limited, and it is difficult to grow well. If you want to grow good fruits, it requires hard work - frequent daily watering, weeding, soil management, and so on, which can be achieved in the summer heat is not easy.
Second culture does not have this problem, a small two culture box can completely grow tomatoes, luffa and other large melon crops, and the growth is good. Since it's hydroponics below, it's enough water and fertilizer for the roots, so as long as the leaves and branches can spread out, you can grow four big tomatoes in one box, or two loofahs. Cucumbers, bitter melons, peppers, eggplant are not a problem.
Fourth, flexible placement
Different from the soil culture, the second culture can be adjusted at any time to place the position, with the vegetable plants to move. It's not like dirt plants that can't be moved. This advantage brings a lot of convenience to the roof planting, and the placement can be adjusted frequently according to needs. Of course, if the plant is a luffa, cucumber and other climbing vine fruits, once grown, the vine relocation is not easy.
Five, management to save trouble
In addition to weeding, loosening, watering and fertilizing, soil culture is also very troublesome - soil disinfection and pest control. If it is planted with POTS and boxes, disinfection and insect control are still some, if the soil is a piece, it is not easy to disinfection and insect control, therefore, generally by not continuous cropping to avoid soil-borne pests and diseases.
Two because the amount of matrix is small, easy to move, so disinfection and insecticide is relatively simple, every year after pouring out the sun to choose disinfectant sterilization, with some insecticide insecticide effect is better. Two times do not need to water, do not need to loosen the soil, the workload of pulling weeds is not large. Daily management workload is less, and easy, suitable for lazy people.
All right, let's take a look at some real pictures of the second cultivation, and you can do it with the roof.
Earth culture in flowerpot
Soil culture can use soil culture, can also use organic substrate cultivation, water supply method is common manual watering, can also use drip irrigation water supply, but drip irrigation system generally requires a certain installation skills and debugging experience. Suitable for small, slow growing flowers. It is more difficult to use vegetables and fruits, and it is difficult to have a decent harvest.
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Advantages: simple and easy, low cost, moving and placing flexible
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Disadvantages: Limited capacity, not suitable for large crops, troublesome watering.
It is completely feasible to grow vegetables on the roof, which can make efficient use of the roof space. However, in addition to ensuring that the roof is waterproof, there are some matters and methods that need to be paid attention to.
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To grow vegetables on the roof, there must be enough soil, you can build a flower bed or foam box, flower pot and other containers that can contain soil, put the mixed soil of decomposed farm manure and garden soil in the container to ensure that the soil is permeable and contains a lot of humus, do a drainage hole at the bottom of the container in advance to avoid waterlogging, the soil depth is best about 50 centimeters, It is also important that these containers for growing vegetables be kept away from the edge of the roof to avoid falling and injuring people.
Plant varieties of vegetables as far as possible to choose low plants, because the top of the floor wind, tall plants are easy to be blown down by the wind, especially some extreme weather, if you must plant tall vegetables must do a good job, such as stable scaffolding. Dwarf vegetables are the most suitable, such as cabbage, radish, coriander, spinach, chrysanthemum chrysanthemum, potatoes, tomatoes, etc., planting methods and planting in the garden is the same, sowing, weeding, fertilization are necessary to do.
It is particularly important to have a deep soil layer, at least about 50 cm, the soil layer is too thin, the water evaporates quickly, and the temperature of the thin soil layer rises quickly, which is not conducive to heat conduction, and the soil temperature is too high will directly harm the vegetable roots and cause death.
Let me give you some advice that I hope will help you.
First of all, the roof is the public roof or the roof of their own. In the case of public rooftops, prior stakeholder permission is required. If there is a property management but also to obtain the consent of the property, some places are not allowed to grow any plants on the roof. If it's your roof, it's your place.
With the site problem solved, the next step is to prepare the soil and the equipment to hold it. The roof planting should be the first choice of foam plastic box, the essence of the box is not anti-corrosion, and the brick wall may hurt the roof waterproof project. In terms of soil, high-quality fertilizer mud after humus fermentation is selected, and the vegetables are loose and breathable.
Roof planting common tools, fertilizer and water management tools. Planting crops are mainly drought-tolerant crops, cabbage, Shanghai green, cabbage, sea pepper. The key is: to prevent drought and water, to prevent birds (wild pigeons eat leaves of cabbage heart), to prevent diseases and pests. Thank you!
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Knowledge in the field of agriculture is vast. If you want to plant vegetables and fruits well, you not only need your own hard work, but also need to master a lot of knowledge about agriculture. Nowadays, there are many citizens growing vegetables on their roofs, which has attracted a wave of hot discussions. So what are the other problems to pay attention to growing vegetables on the roof?
Growing vegetables on the roof is a very difficult thing, need to be considered comprehensively, need to pay attention to the following issues.
First of all, the problem of water resources, vegetable planting effect is directly related to the water source. Therefore, it is best to press a faucet on the roof, which is convenient for irrigation and can keep vegetables from being in a state of drought. It is conducive to the growth of plants. Especially in summer, the weather is particularly hot, evaporation is also extremely strong, so press a faucet, is very convenient.
The second aspect. Be sure to plant some hardy, light-loving plants. On the roof, the light is particularly strong, so be sure to pay more attention to the selection of plants. Instead of spending money and time and getting nothing in the end.
Nowadays, land resources are also particularly scarce, and the idea of growing vegetables on the roof is not unrealistic, which not only makes good use of the land, but also makes the plants grown have high quality. It's the best of both worlds. But people must pay more attention, can not blindly follow the trend, in the case of not prepared work. Be sure to learn more about agriculture and be sure to pay attention to safety issues when planting.
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I grow vegetables on the roof, any good way to recommend? According to my own experience, there are the following methods, the choice of the first flower bed, the roof of the plant, the best use of long flower POTS, more suitable for the growth of vegetables. The second soil can be planted in pastoral soil or vegetable nutrient soil.
The third, the use of fertilizer, growing vegetables on the roof, fertilizer is a must, fertilizer can choose organic fertilizer, such as a variety of manure. The fourth point, pay attention to the wind, if the top of the building is particularly windy, we can fix all the POTS together through wire, so as to prevent the POTS from blowing down. The fifth point, if there are rattan vegetables such as loofah, then we should set up the support in advance, and when setting up the support, we should also take into account the wind resistance of the support. The sixth point is to prevent pests and diseases, grow vegetables on the roof, the most common problem is pests, in order to prevent and treat pests, to choose the appropriate insecticides, or artificial removal.
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