Green Roof Growers Sip

Eco roofs is a grower and supplier of pre grown green roof trays pre vegetated sedum mats plants plugs cuttings and all of your other green roof supplies.

Green roof growers sip.

Matt melton lives in central washington state in a 3 year old house with a roof made of structural insulated panels sips that are 12 1 4 inches thick. Green roof growers friday october 10 2014. Watermelon sips on the chicago rooftop of the green roof growers we ve featured self irrigating pots sips in our first book and have done a lot of experiments with them over the years. We also keep bees on our roofs hens under the deck and fermenting vegetables in our kitchens.

Our sip panels are noa approved for all building zones in florida. Green roof growers we re growing organic heirloom vegetables on our rooftops and in our backyards in chicago using homemade sub irrigated planters sips more on them below. We re glad you stopped by. The pitch of the roof is very low only 1 2 inch in 12 and the metal roofing has been applied directly over the sips with no air channel beneath the roofing for ventilation.

With 50 years of horticulture growing experience eco roofs is uniquely positioned to be your source for green roof knowledge and experience as well as growing and providing the green. How and why to make a sip sip sub irrigated planter. Green roof growers saturday july 5 2008. There is a new underlayment for metal clad roofs that i found at a trade show recently that looks like a great solution to haveing a cold roof over your sips roof.

Many of the photos here are from this second sip run on the roof and the pretty yellow pickle buckets are courtesy of bruce s neighbor who drives for chicago s own vienna beef thanks rey. We also manufacture plywood mgo and osb mgo floor and roof panels. Green roof growers a splendid blog. It is a breather membrane that has what amounts to plastic piles on it that the manufacturer says gives you the airspace and the breathable membrane in one material.

We owe you some tomatoes. Sips and commercially available earthboxes. Innova eco building systems located in miami florida manufactures mgo sip wall floor and roof panels up to 4 x 20 long. One of the problems with growing tomatoes in sips is that the roots can get into the water chamber and cause problems and diseases.

Trip to wisconsin farm pics. So much so that my. Then in all the tomato planters i mix 2 cups of espoma garden lime derived from. Gregory raith posted in general questions on october 3 2011 12 32pm i have a bensonwood timber frame in vt that is only 8 years old with significant panel roof decay.

Structural insulated panel sip roof decay. The complete source for building designing and remodeling green homes.