That's how the day started. The view from my rooftop. The air was crisp and clean, the sun was having a blast.
Right that moment I decided to take care of my rooftop garden - finally, I must say. Most of the pots looked like this:
And that's not how they're supposed to look like. I mean, the horse radish is doing good, which is awesome. It was very hard to get a few roots and I'm absolutely glad that they're hanging in there. In this pot, it's mixed with some arugula - basically Ellie's combo. She loves both.
So I got to work. I didn't find my favorite tool, so it was just a half-broken shovel helping me out.
This spider was not amused that I broke her web. I gave her a free photo session to make up for it, but she still turned her back on me afterwards. Nothing I could do.
And of course, I drew blood. I mean, that's like "gardening 101 with Beelzael" - when you garden, you draw blood. Preferably in the most stupid way possible. I cut my foot a little at a corner. Didn't hurt too much, so I ignored it. Next thing I know the side of the foot is covered in blood. Well, no biggie. It dried up quickly.
I think I woke this little bugger up. There were several within the dirt, under the roots of all the weed and grass and all that. He started to gnaw on one of the few seed-grown-onions that I have, so I relocated them into the real garden. He has a lot more options down there.
I'm pleased with the result. It took me 1,5h in total, but the boxes look clean again and all the plants that are important to me have a lot more space. I think I'll have to transplant the rosemary bushed, though. They're not growing anymore, I guess they took up all the space available for roots.
This is how it looked before:
And this after:
As you can see, there's a lot more plants on my drying racks. I use that technique to thoroughly kill the weed that I don't want, before throwing it on the compost. Most plants would just keep growing on the compost if I didn't dry them up before. Plants here are poised to take over everything as soon as one turns around for a minute.
And yes, the racks are placed on old beer cases. AmBev pulled Brahma out of Ecuador and just left the restaurants with thousands of cases. The restaurant I had back then had around 20 cases. I try to re-use them as much as I can.
I tried to be very careful around this little pea vine. It must have grown from another plant that was in the pot before, as I haven't sown any in a while. But I'll be happy to get those out of their shells!
I gave my onions a little more space. Those, I only grow for the greens. Since I had those pots left over, I cleaned them out, mixed the dirt and now hope that the onions will thrive again. I do love some onion greens in my guacamole and salads.
While I'm writing this, the beautiful day turned into a beautiful thunderstorm. Perfect timing! My plants will love that. And so this story ends! What are your pots like these days? Do you have legit ones, or improvised, recycled ones like I?
