About UpperFieldCorner
An independent reference covering rooftop vegetable growing, container gardening and vertical systems for Czech city residents.
What This Site Covers
UpperFieldCorner documents practical approaches to growing food in urban environments across the Czech Republic. The focus is narrow: rooftop beds, balcony containers and wall-mounted vertical systems in city buildings. Rural allotment gardening (zahrádkářská kolonie) and large-scale commercial greenhouse production are outside the scope of this site.
Content is organised around three recurring questions from Czech city residents:
- Whether a rooftop or terrace can structurally support a growing system
- Which crops are worth growing given typical Czech balcony and rooftop conditions
- How to maintain soil quality and water supply without access to a garden tap
Background
The site began as a document collecting notes from rooftop growing experiments in Prague's Žižkov and Vinohrady districts between 2020 and 2022. During that period, a number of building owners in Prague 3 converted unused rooftop spaces into community plots following changes in the Prague Metropolitan Plan (Metropolitní plán) which relaxed restrictions on rooftop structures.
Notes from those projects — covering substrate testing, irrigation setup, seasonal crop results and structural observations — form the factual base of the content published here.
Data Sources
Where specific figures are cited, the source is identified inline. Primary references include:
- Výzkumný ústav rostlinné výroby (VÚRV) — Czech crop yield research
- Ministerstvo životního prostředí — urban greening grant documentation
- Institut plánování a rozvoje hlavního města Prahy (IPR) — rooftop zoning data
- Český hydrometeorologický ústav (ČHMÚ) — climate and frost date data
Contact
UpperField Corner s.r.o.
Korunní 2569/108, 101 00 Praha 10, Czech Republic
IČO: 19283746
Email: info@upperfieldcorner.eu
Phone: +420 734 556 891
Last updated: June 5, 2026