![]() Identify a suitable roof structure ideally with a 9-10 degree pitch on it. Peat free compost mixed with sharp sand.Sufficient Yorkshire board to go around the perimeter of the roof.Geotextile membrane or some old blankets.An offcut of pond liner or damp proof liner.In fact you could apply the same design principles to a shed, log store, over even a bird box! It also enables you to create your own personal blend of weather-hardy plants such as sedums, alpines, mosses, grasses, seasonal herbs, and house leeks. Better instead to build your own, that way you can decide the planting plan and over the years it will pad out and provide the same effect as the matting. There are options to buy ready-made matting that can be rolled out and attached to a roof but at over £20 a metre this can prove a little prohibitive, especially as this whole project costs less than £20 if you sow or propagate your own plants. This project will take you through how to go about constructing a simple and effective green roof on your chicken coop. Why not, after all it’s a roof like any other so it would provide “the environmental benefits of having a living, breathing space where once there was nothing, transform an otherwise dull space into something aesthetically pleasing AND provide you with more growing space.” It was on one such coop I figured I try a different kind of field trial by sticking a green roof on it. Every now and then I’m given a chicken house to put through some field trials and as a consequence I can end up with quite a few ‘buildings’ covering the field.
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