Rooftop Growing

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Post: # 39942Post pskipper »

Depends where you are, I'm in wiltshire and the Chillies have to come in for the winter but do wonderfully outside in the summer (bumper crop this year >300)

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Post: # 39945Post Milims »

how about.....
as you have 2 walls, fastening brackets to them and using hanging baskets too, Tumbler tomatoes are pretty good in them and they are cherry types! :lol:

You could also grow starwberries up there in the same way.

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Post: # 40139Post the.fee.fairy »

ooh what a plan!

I've got 16 strawberry plants winging their way to me at the moment!

If i can get dad to rig up some kind of shelf on a chain on th wall, then i can probably grow them up there.

Tomatoes underneath, strawberries on top...


I'm in the south east of England, so if you can grow chillies in Wiltshire in Summer, then i shouldn't have a problem either.

Looks like there's going to be a row of chillies too...

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Post: # 41502Post the.fee.fairy »

Spoke to Dad about it. The roof will be strong enough to hold some growbags, so i'm planning a line against the big wall, for tomatoes, and then under my window i'm going to put a shelf so that my strawberries can go on them, and then i'm going to put chillies in a few pots and dot them about.


It'll be so pretty! And, it frees up some space in the garden itself.

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