The roof deck garden is flourishing! Believe it or not we have cherry tomatoes, celebrity tomatoes, beans, green peppers, jalapeno peppers, lettuce, kale, collard greens, zucchini, and broccoli growing on our roof!
We are meticulous waterers, taking turns carrying the bucket up the spiral stairs to the roof each morning. We have already harvested Lettuce, Kale, Collard Greens and the cherry tomatoes are oh so close!
I think if we can grow these plants on our 10x15 roof deck in Jersey City we can grow food anywhere! There is enough room for us to hang out, have dinner, drinks with friends and grow some food. The plants also bring life and greenness to the otherwise gritty urban rooftop.
For anyone who has never grown a vegetable from seed we highly recommended it. It is rewarding. Its like having a new set of babies that grow and change every morning as you water them. Oh and its free, after you buy the containers and the dirt! As for fertilizing we are looking to our red wiggler worms...a red wiggler post to follow.
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Nice work you guys...I can't wait to come home and have a glass of wine with you on the garden deck!
By the way, the pictures are great! Did you take them with a Digital Canon Rebel Xti?
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