Rooftop farming
Refused one flower as a boy, he now grows 120 kinds of plants on a Jamalpur roof
University student Tanjid Islam has built a garden of about 70 fruit and 50 flower varieties in cut plastic drums on a 1,600-square-foot roof.
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Rooftop farmingMealybugs and root rot on rooftop plants: seven home remedies
Sarabangla suggests neem oil, garlic and soap-water sprays for mealybugs, and turmeric, cinnamon, baking soda and diluted hydrogen peroxide against rot, without chemical pesticides, reminding gardeners that controlling pests and curing rot call for different remedies.
Rooftop farmingA winter rooftop garden: which vegetables and flowers, and what pots and soil
Now is the time to prepare a winter rooftop garden: 12- to 15-inch pots for vegetables, a loam, compost and cocopeat mix for flowers, and at least 5-6 hours of sun a day.
FruitsHow to pick a sweet papaya: colour, ridges, stalk and smell
Mizan Mia, who has sold fruit in Agargaon for 30 years, says to look for ripening from the ridges, a slight give under the thumb, little white latex at the stalk and a sweet smell.
Rooftop farmingA Rajshahi rooftop of 3,500 plants earns its owner Tk 12 lakh a year
Sharmin Akter sells seedlings and pots from her three-tier rooftop garden in Rajshahi's Binodpur, earning about Tk 12 lakh a year. The garden won first place for rooftop gardens in the national tree plantation award.
Rooftop farmingA rented Rampura rooftop, cuttings and Facebook: Rangguli sells Tk 2 lakh of plants a month
A pandemic rooftop hobby became a business: on a roof rented for Tk 5,000 a month, Yasmin Khan raises succulents and cacti from cuttings and sells about Tk 2 lakh worth online each month.
Rooftop farmingOnly 5% of Dhaka's roofs have gardens; a lawyer calls for a rooftop garden policy
Writing in Samakal, lawyer Jesmin Jeba says Dhaka has about 300,000 roofs fit for gardens but gardens on only about 5 percent of its roofs. She wants an official definition, tax rebates and protection for tenants.
Rooftop farmingBasel leads the world in green roofs at 5.71 square metres a resident, by law
Basel has required gardens on every new flat roof since 2002; the records of Stuttgart, London, Singapore and Toronto show that green-roof cities are built by policy and incentives.
Rooftop farmingColumn: make rooftop gardening a social movement with training and free saplings
Writing in Dainik Azadi, Debashish Kanti Biswas argues that rooftop gardens add oxygen to city air and give families chemical-free food, and that training and free saplings would spread them to towns and villages alike.
Rooftop farmingReturnee migrant in Matlab earns over Tk 1 lakh a year from rooftop dragon fruit
Abu Hanif, 62, learned from YouTube and planted dragon fruit on his 1,400 sq ft roof and 6.5 decimals of yard in Matlab Dakshin, Chandpur, in 2024; he now clears more than Tk 1 lakh a year and has leased 60 more decimals.
Rooftop farming
A rooftop garden for birds on the Dhaka deputy commissioner's office
The empty 11,000 sq ft roof of the Dhaka district administration building on Johnson Road now holds 418 plants of 58 species, water basins and bamboo thickets for birds, built for about Tk 10 lakh.
Rooftop farmingStarting a rooftop garden in the city: layout, containers, soil and drainage
A rooftop garden lasts only if the roof's load, the beams and columns, the size of each container, the potting mix and the drainage are planned first, Agricare24 says in a step-by-step guide.
Rooftop farmingGrowing garlic in pots on a rooftop or balcony, from seed to storage
Garlic can be grown organically in pots in a garden, on a balcony or on a roof: plant cloves in October-November, mulch and water with care, and lift the bulbs at the end of summer.