Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Vegetable garden on terrace or roof

Inspiration on growing vegetables on roof developed while discussing with my friend Mr D, he had lot of video collections and that influenced me and there was nothing that can stop me in doing this. Looking at the benefits apart from vegetables that I can fetch, there are other benefits like; spending time at home instead of hanging around in shopping, visiting places and having food from restaurants, I am occupied with my family and the plants. I call my friends to my home and we all have food from home lets live natural.................

The images shared here is the roof garden maintained by me, here I  have grown multiple varieties of vegetables.
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Gardening on roof protect the roof from sunlight,
which controls the heat with in the rooms beneath.







On my terrace I grew, Beans, Eggplant, Tomato, Okra and other

How to grow tomato
How to grow brinjal/ Eggplant
Planted okra (Lady finger)  in grow bags, for each plant one grow bag is used with compost soil.

10 plants can produce okra for 70-90 days. each plant will produce 5 to 10 okra, depending on the soil quality and sunlight and other basic needs of the plant to grow.

How to grow Okra, please view 

Planted long beans in grow bags, for each plant one grow bag is used with compost soil.

This plant needs support for climbing, so installed trellis to climb up.


10 plants can produce more than 2 kilograms of beans.

How to grow Long beans, please view 



Planted bitter gourd in grow bags, for each plant one grow bag is used with compost soil.

This plant needs support for climbing, so installed trellis or net to climb up.


10 plants can produce more than 2-3 kilograms of  bitter gourd.

How to grow Bitter gourd, please view 


Planted Beetroot in grow bags, for each plant one grow bag is used with compost soil.

Each bag planted with three beetroot seedlings, though the plant could not fetch good result, enjoyed the result when uprooted.













Planted one Pineapple in grow bag.
View a post on growing Pineapple on terrace








Planted Green chilly in grow bag.




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Planted Cucumber in grow bag.
























Planted Curry leaves in grow bag.



Planted Pumpkin in grow bag.
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Indian spinach (Cheera) very much rich in nutrients.
Cheera plant takes a month time ready for preparing curry.

                                                                              In Kerala as a favorite dish, 'cheera thoran'  is served at special occasions.

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