Fest your eyes on Esme and David’s amazing Bushwick, Brooklyn roof garden and visit their Flickr page to get the full tour. This is their first year as roof gardeners. They live on the top floor of their building and run a hose up from their kitchen sink to water. They use self-watering containers and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘watering’
24 Jun
How Do You Get A Water Supply Up To A Roof Garden?
Check out this great question: We’ve been thinking about gardening on the roof for awhile now, but haven’t moved forward – I think because I was thinking “too grand”. Looking at photos on this site, I see it’s as simple as putting some pots on the roof. However, aside from carrying cans of water up [...]
17 Jul
Lee Valley Sale, or Why I Bought a $72 Watering Can
Lee Valley is running free shipping sale through this weekend. Good thing too — our nasty neighbor has decided that we cannot use the hose on the roof anymore, so we ordered another large Haws’ watering can. Without access to the hose, we’ve been making double and triple trips down to our apartment to fill [...]
