Vegetables: The New Way To Diversify Property Income

Manchester`s city centre rooftops could become a new market garden, a Belfast-based academic is claiming.

Experiments by Andrew Jenkins and Manchester developer Urban Splash have revealed that city centre buildings could be turned into a market garden producing up to 180 million packs of salad a year, the Manchester Evening News reports.

Crops could include lettuces, Swiss chard, chillies, courgettes and even strawberries.

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RSK: Wonder if this would work here.

Ken notes: They are doing this in southwest Wisconsin - greenhouse greens that is...