How Do You Make Your Garden Grow?

[jpskewedthrone]

Someone asked if they could see pics of the roof garden, so today I went up and took a few and decided to spam you all with them. I also took a pic of the VASE OF SIN that I mentioned in the previous post.

First, the crackle vase that I stole from the church:







Not the most beautiful piece of crackle that I own, but I'll go to hell for it anyway.

Now the garden. Here are the two shots of either side of the roof:







Those are the two vegetable plots. We also have a few spots for just flowers, and a kiddie pool that we filled with dirt and seeded with grass so that our guinea pigs could have a lawn to munch and run in. It's surrounded by flowers. Here the pic of that:







And now some closeups of some of the veggies that the garden is producing. Let's see, there's tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, corn (2 pics of that--a long shot and a closeup of one of the cobs), watermelon, yellow squash, spagetti squash, and lastly carrots.















And that's what our garden looks like. We've gotten peas from it as well, but they're done already so I couldn't get a picture of them. We have green beans and some peppers that have only just flowered. And for some reason the acorn squash has tons of flowers but no actual squash started on it yet. Perhaps more pictures will be posted once some of that stuff starts producing.

(Yikes! I didn't realize the carrot pic was so out of focus. Sorry about that.)

Comments

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Hee! I continue to be amused at the idea of corn growing on the rooftop of a city building.

[wolfette]

phht - you could have bought the vase on eBay or in a charity (thrift) store for the same price, for the same reason - they didn't check what it was worth before offering it for sale.

My mother was particularly good at getting gypped when she sold or otherwise got rid of family heirlooms. "Nobody would want that" was her claim - so a set of Victorian annuals were taken off her hands by a dealer for a few (under five) pounds, when they were worth hundreds, a pair of 16th C pewter tankards fetched a fiver (original pewter, not modern pewter - worth LOTS more) and a complete set of "Starlord" comics went into the bin, when the first issue was worth almost a hundred pounds. Was she upset at this? No, she maintained her stance "NOBODY would want those!"

[siedhr.livejournal.com]

One should be careful these days about displays of stolen church artifacts (see the cracker incident (http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/its_a_goddamned_cracker.php)).
That being said the vase is beautiful, especially that pattern at the bottom. And you have my envy for being able to grow living things. May you enjoy them.

[sabotabby]

That's amazing. We've never had that kind of success on our rooftop.

[jtglover.livejournal.com]

1. Nice garden!

2. Pls to write erotic/heroic fantasy novel entitled The Vase of Sin.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

>2. Pls to write erotic/heroic fantasy novel entitled The Vase of Sin.

That would be awesome. You must, you must!

[sistercoyote.livejournal.com]

Thirded!

[jlawrenceperry.livejournal.com]

Vase of Sin. Classic.

So where is Spider Man? He always shows up on the rooftops. Oh, and go out at night to meet Batman.

new Batman was AWESOME, by the way.

[jeanhuets.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's an amazing garden, and just growing in pots. And the guinea pig lawn: adorable!

[garlikmongere.livejournal.com]

That's a nice vase. And the garden is impressive. My grandmother grows almost all her flowers in pots, but I didn't realize the soil in a pot was sufficient for all those vegetables. Now if only I had a roof, or a balcony ...

[sistercoyote.livejournal.com]

Enough with the plants - show us some grazing guinea pigs! :)

Actually, it looks like you have a very nice garden. Congrats!

[scbutler.livejournal.com]

Tomaters on the roof are always good.

[sarah-prineas.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's quite a garden.

As for the Vase of Sin, I suppose it depends on what you do with it...

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

That is an amazing roof garden!

As for the Vase of Sin, perhaps if Leaves of Anguish doesn't fly as a title...

[rosinavs.livejournal.com]

Okay, now you need a shot of the guinea pigs in their garden, so I can forward my other lj friends who have/had guinea pigs to it.

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

But surely that's the Holy Crackle Vase Of Antioch, believed lost these two thousand years or more...
Utterly brilliant rooftop allotment, by the way. The aubergine particularly. That looks very good.

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

Having gone to Antioch College, I can assure you that that's quite likely.

And yes, the eggplant is particularly impressive.

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

Are Antioch College particularly prone to losing ancient relics?

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

Awesome garden! :D I know something about growing veg in containers, and that produce is extremely impressive!

The guinea-pig lawn is priceless. Our hedgehogs would have loved it, in the days when we had hedgehogs.

[footlingagain.livejournal.com]

I've had quite the rill of emotions running through me thanks to those photos! I have been:

1)Astounded by the Vase of Sin. I bet it casts lovely colours on that wall.
2)Impressed by the quantity of produce you're getting from your veggie 'plot'
3)Envious of the slug-free state of your roof garden. My garden is slug/snail paradise at the moment.
4)Ennervated by the thought of the amount of watering all those pots must take.
5)Enchanted by your guinea pig lawn. And the thought that you would do that for your guinea pig - you're such good parents!

I'm off to lie down now, to recover from the emotional overload :)

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

As someone who occasionally wanders through yard sales and church bazaars, I feel certain that the church people would have been flummoxed had you offered them more for the vase than they were asking for it. You probably would have gotten a puzzled smile, suggesting that you were welcome to make a donation if you really wanted to.

Enjoy your Vase of Sin.

I do love all the suggestions that you write a book by that name.

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed. And even sometimes in other venues. I remember one in a used bookstore, the owner counting out changed and saying, "50, 75, a dollar."
I looked at the coins in my hand and said, "No, you've given me too much. This is three dollars." "No," she insisted, "It's seventy-five cents." "Look," I said. "These coins have Susan B. Anthony on them." "Yes," she said, as if speaking to a very slow person. "They're Susan B. Anthony quarters." I had to actually show here where, on the coin, it said, "One Dollar."

(For you folks from other countries, the Susan B. Anthony Dollar was a short-lived coin -- though not as a short as the Sacagewea Dollar -- which was though to have failed because the coin was very close in size to a US quarter dollar)

But definitely Church Bazaar Ladies would be puzzled if you told them what they were selling as junk was a fairly rare antique.

[ruthannereid.livejournal.com]

That's lovely! Oh, now you're making me hungry.

[snapesgirl-62.livejournal.com]

you might need to help pollinate the flowers on the peppers. THe acorn squash is a winter/late harvest fruit so it will not always have fruit at the same time as the other vines.

I am impressed. I've not seen watermelon do so well in containers before today.

Garden and graft

[(Anonymous)]

If you feel THAT bad about the vase, you COULD send a donation to a charity of which you approve. I'm guessing that you have already contributed an amount commensurate with your true guilt.

I'll trade you a chili bean and a stink bean for two green beans.

JB