When life gives you concrete and you want to garden, improvise. Living in an apartment building in the city can be challenging for a would-be gardener, but I was born to challenge life. Walking out the backdoor of my building, you step onto the roof of our underground garage, which provided me with the perfect platform for a container garden.
I bought my vegetable and herb plants at the
Coit Road Farmers Market, so with high hopes and found and bought containers I was ready to plant.
Early Morning June 1stGood organic soil, organic plant food and blessed with good rains the garden is thriving. I planted Big Bertha peppers, Mortgage Lifter heirloom tomatoes, Sweet Baby Girl cherry tomatoes, oregano, thyme, basil and parsley. Notice the oregano in the right hand corner, that was one little sprig when I planted it.
One month later ...There was one small incident with a renegade neighborhood rabbit, who mistakenly thought I planted my parsley for his enjoyment, even though he ate it down to the nub there is new growth. Wonder if he has ever heard of rabbit stew?
Basil tucked in with the tomatoes ...
Look close, see the little bitty tomato?
Early Morning June 1st
One month later ...
Basil tucked in with the tomatoes ...
19 comments:
Well would you look at that!!! Congrat's Momma.... I see you have a baby there!!
Yes, I am just so proud, I think I will call her "sauce" :)
The veggies have shot up like rockets mom. I guess all that rain really helped. rabbit stew huh? lol
Rabbit stew with red-eye gravy, yummmmy! LOL !
Your garden is delightful! The rabbit stew made me laugh ... daring little beast wasn't he?!
What a great idea! Good luck with all your growing. Looks like you'll have a bountiful harvest.
Hi Paula ... yes he was, and since we live on a hill the next door neighbors back yard is actually level to our garage roof, so there is no climbing involved for the city critters. I wonder if he will share some of my parsley with me ?
Hey Sue
Me too :) I really was set on the maters and basil, but if it does well I will expand next year.
I like what you've done - just goes to show you that you don't have to have a huge back yard to fulfill a gardening passion.
Thanks Giz, like I said if it does well next year I will be expanding.
LOL ... didn't realize my daughter was signed into blogger when I answered you Giz :)
It looks great and very healthy too.
Good luck!
Thanks Michelle :)
Ohiomom, you mentioned that you were going to try this and I've missed all the fun up until now. Where there's a will there's a way, and you've found it. I can't wait until some of this produce finds it way into your recipes.
Whoops, that last comments was from me, Pidge, and I it the wrong button. I don't want you to think I'm just a lurker!
Hi Pidge
Yes this is my "urban experiment", and so far so good ... as a matter of fact I am on my way to the garden now to pick some basil for dinner tonite ... stay tuned :)
Ohiomom
I was just going to reply to your e-mail again asking for pics of your new plant but stopped in here first.
Very cool and I love the idea of the rooftop garden. Congrats.
Thanks MBT ... and I am so happy to stop in at your blog and find your sharing with us again :)
Love your potted garden! Beautiful! I have one too, love growing veggies every summer. I have Pear Tomatoes right now!:))
Thank you Asha, and thanks for stopping by ...
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