Comments on: Pre-Plant: Planning a Roof Garden

By: geos

geos — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:37:53 +0000

drainage in roof garden is also important. Some info can be found here.
geosyntheticsworld.com

By: Georgia (localecology.org)

Georgia (localecology.org) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:39:48 +0000

Congrats Paula. Hoping to see your garden one day, via a tour?

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:52:28 +0000

Wow! Sounds so exciting! I hope you’ll do an update when seeds begin growing. I’m curious how you’ll get 1000 lbs of soil to the roof. That will be a feat.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:55:14 +0000

I’m so excited to see your garden, Paula. What an inspiration!

By: Kerry Trueman

Kerry Trueman — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:27:07 +0000

Please be assured that you DO NOT need a 10′ fence! Any fence requirements that may exist would certainly be much lower than that. But if a fence is required, you’ll need to put up something more permanent/structured than a screen of evergreens. When my husband and I built our roof garden, we constructed long wooden planters for the perimeters of our roof and attached panels of lattice and picket fencing to the backs, it worked really well and gave us a framework to train vines, etc.

By: James

James — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:44:32 +0000

I love this idea. I live in the Bronx and am looking to start rooftop vegetables gardens here, but with all the rules they impose on the rooftop gardens, I got discouraged until now. Someone said that you need like a 10 foot high fence around the perimeter of the roof, in order for people to go up there. If this is true, do you think the hemlocks would serve this purpose? Thanks!!