Fruit Cultivation in roof gardens

Fruit cultivation in roof gardens

The tendency to create benefits by creating a roof garden is increasing day by day. Many are inspired to create rooftop gardens to ensure health awareness and access to safe fruits and vegetables. Many people are interested in creating roof gardens for the needs of older men and women. The school-college students come in contact with the plants by gardening the roof and enjoy the various pleasures. Many tree lovers are deliberately gardening on the roof with their own hands, expressing the joy of creation and love for plants. A beautiful roof garden can provide a clean environment and safe fruits and vegetables to meet the needs of the family throughout the year.

Roof size and location: Roof size can be small, medium or large. Considering this size, it is necessary to decide at the outset which part of the roof, what, how many different fruits, vegetables, spices and medicinal plants can be cultivated. Gardens have to be created considering the number of floors of the roof, the number of floors of the building or the size of the plants in the vicinity, considering the convenience of getting light, air or sun throughout the day. If the position of the roof is too high, the effect of storm-wind is more. Therefore, it is not advisable to plant tall fruit trees on the roof. In such a situation, the tree is more prone to fall, twigs to break, and fruit to fall. Therefore, in this case, it is better to keep the tree pruned and not allow it to grow higher.

In addition, the roof garden should be given priority with the trees that have low height and grow side by side. For the same reason, it is better not to plant such tall banana and papaya trees on very high roofs. The heat of the sun on the roof is higher than that of the ground. This is due to direct sunlight and its reflection. For this purpose, in the creation of roof garden, 50-60% sun resistant dense net can be fitted above 6-7 feet to create favorable environment for roof trees.

To make the roof garden suitable:

First of all, many people start roof garden by planting trees in different types of small and big tubs. However, it is not possible to bring much success in this system. For this, it is necessary to take measures at the beginning so that the roots of the trees planted on the roof can spread more and more trees can be planted but there is no damage to the roof.

Box making: 

Most of the roof gardens make boxes 2-3 feet wide and 2-3 feet high and fill them with potting media and plant trees in them. Many people make this box by making a gap by leaving a gap of 8-12 inches at the bottom. Some people raise the lower part of the box 2-3 inches high and mold it to make a similar long box at low cost with a thin brick masonry directly on it. Alternatively make tin / plastic stacks or collect broken vessel bathtub-sized containers and use them as box / tub alternatives.

Filling boxes / tubs with potting media:

It is usually collected from the nursery and mixed with dung and used for planting trees. Since there is less chance of spreading the roots of trees planted in roof gardens like crop lands, it is necessary to make arrangements for good drainage and easy spreading of tree roots in the lower part with good quality potting media. The different layers of the box can be adapted as follows:

1. The first part of the floor: to fill 3-4 inches with less expensive small size cob / pieces of third grade bricks;
2. B. Filling this second layer with charcoal 2-3 inches thick on the upper layer;
3.  3rd layer Arranged with coconut husk pieces or coconut husks 2-3 inches thick;
4. D. Fill 4th layer with 2-3 inch thick sand or small stone chips / brick chips;
5. E. If the last or upper part is filled with 2-2.5 feet good quality potting media, the roof will be more suitable for garden trees.

Methods of making potting media:

Ready made potting media made mainly from pit mos, pit soil and organic matter (compost) is available in various local nurseries abroad. There are even different media available for what type of tree to plant. The following is a ratio of what is available in this country to produce good quality media :

1. Cocoa dust or coconut husk powder - 25%
2. Coarse sand ( - 10%
3. Soil (which is available in nurseries) - 25%
4. Compost / rotten dung - 30%
5. 3rd Grade Brick Chips / Copper - 10%

Mix these well and fill the rest of the box / tub and if you plant a tree in it, the tree will grow faster and you will get more yield. It is better to use some sawmill powder, compost or compost produced by a reliable company and mix some bone powder with the media.

Roof Tree Planting:

The importance of collecting healthy seedlings / seedlings of improved varieties from reliable sources for roof gardening is immense. The long-term and medium-term fruit trees to be planted in this garden are better if they are tree gives us fruits all through the year variety. Otherwise, trees that bear fruit at the same time for 5-6 months should be planted. It is not advisable to choose a tree that can bear fruit (litchi) for a very short time. The garden should be arranged in such a way that it always has a flowering condition on one or another tree.

Fruit trees suitable for roof gardening include:

Mango, Exotic Jack fruit, Guava,Lemon (Paper, Seedless, Cardamom), Malta, Orange, Thai, Dragon fruit are some of them.

Vegetables:

Eggplant, Tomato, Potato, Capsicum, Bean,Arum, Cucumber ,Gourd ,Broccoli ,Radish etc.

Spices:

Pepper, coriander, coriander, mint, curry leaves, onion, garlic, ginger, black pepper, palm etc.

Medicinal properties:

Aloe vera, Basil etc.

Flowers:

Rose, Belly, Jasmine, Hyacinth, and various seasonal flowers.

Tree Planting and Care:

Improve preferred Destination The grafted trees should be planted and kept straight with sticks or poles. This will prevent the tree from tilting or moving and becoming weak. If necessary, some unnecessary branches of the tree, especially the ones that grow more at the top, should be reduced and the tree should be helped to grow side by side without being too high. If the size of the tree is too small, it is better to store it for some time in a relatively small tub or in an abandoned bag made of cement and then plant it in boxes / big tubs in stages. The trees stored in the tub need to be placed on a row of bricks at the bottom without leaving them directly on the roof. Excess water in the tub will come out easily, Would be good for the roof. The trees stored in the drum get hotter in the heat of the sun. Therefore, if you cover the sides of the drum with sack / sack, it will prevent a lot. As a result of irrigating the trees, the soil on the surface becomes hard and burrows. Occasionally weeding will break the top layer, which will prevent it. In this system weeds can be controlled and ventilation inside will be facilitated. In the dry season, mulching with dried water hyacinth or straw, dry leaves around the roots of long-term large trees will preserve the sap, prevent grass growth and later use them as rotten food.

Determining the position of the tree:

Some trees prefer more sun (paper lemon, dragon fruit), some trees prefer half shade (cardamom lemon), and some trees prefer shade. Therefore, in order to get more benefits from the roof garden, it is necessary to finalize the position of the tree by understanding the condition of getting sun / light-air on the roof.

Watering:

Excessive watering and too little watering are both harmful to the plant. Experience has shown that over-watering can lead to disease and even death. For this, water can be given only when the root of the tree is dry, if the root is wet, it cannot be watered in any way. Some trees take more water (dragon, coconut) and many trees take less water (beans, peppers, eggplants). Rainwater or drainage water is preferred by trees, not pure water. However, it is better to irrigate the trees in the morning.

Insect and spider control:

In the early stages, a limited number of insects or clusters of eggs are seen at the beginning. It is better to collect insects or insect eggs and kill them only after checking the roof garden regularly. Insects are located in the lower part of the leaves. In many cases the insects take shelter in the old leaves for a long time. For this, as soon as the leaves turn yellow, they have to be pruned leaving the leaf buds. Soak 2-3 grams of very salty chilli powder in one liter of water and sift it the next day. Mix 2 grams of detergent powder and one teaspoon of onion juice in it and spray at intervals of 7-10 days. By organic method the plant can be kept safe from insects. Mites or tiny spiders cannot be seen with the naked eye. Litchi, pepper, eggplant, Mite infestation is more common in marigolds. This spider can also be controlled by pepper powder method. Since the location of the insects is under the leaves, effective measures should be taken to control the insects by spraying this part well. Care should be taken when using pesticides to ensure that their toxicity is low.

Fertilizer application:

When fish, meat and vegetables are washed in water, the lack of food in the plant is somewhat met. It is also good to apply mixed fertilizers, bone powder occasionally and non-edible (zinc, boron, magnesium, manganese) once a year. Fish thorns, bone fragments, egg shells, vegetable scraps, leaves, It is better to put it in a drum and use it in the roof garden. It is easier to restore the health of a few years old tree by carefully removing some soil around the base and filling it with potting media in a new way. If possible, the tree can be pruned and removed with some soil and arrangements can be made to change the soil mixed with fertilizer. In this case, you should not proceed without experience. It can be done knowingly. Trees can be made healthier by removing them from relatively small tubs to larger tubs. Those who are experienced in roof gardening visit their gardens and learn to know or see the aspects of success and apply it in their own gardens. Many people reap the benefits of applying a variety of nutrients / hormones to prevent flower fall and increase fruit set.

A beautiful roof garden can provide a healthy family environment and safe fresh food every day. According to one source, those who have a roof garden have more peace in their families than those who do not. Let us build every roof garden beautifully and successfully and reap pure benefits from it by caring for love as much as we can.

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